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April 9, 2010

Council OKs bond issue for community center

Charles Oliver Dalton Daily Citizen

DALTON — The Dalton City Council and the Dalton Building Authority agreed to issue $5.6 million in bonds to fund the reconstruction of the Dalton Community Center as well as various recreation department projects.

The bonds carry an effective interest rate of 3.1 percent and mature in 2030, according to Mayor David Pennington.

Pennington said most of the money raised by issuing the bonds will be used to rebuild the Dalton Community Center. The rest will be used to resurface the fields at the Broaddus-Durkan soccer complex and to build two new artificial turf football-soccer fields at James Brown Park.

“We’ll build the combination fields, rest rooms and concession areas and fencing,” said parks and recreation director Ronnie Nix.

Nix said the recreation department has already begun applying for the needed permits for the work and as soon as it has those permits it will put the work out to bid. Pennington said the council should be able to vote on bids for the community center work when it meets again on April 19.

Dalton city administrator Ty Ross said last month the city had received 11 bids on the project. Ross said most of the bids had come in at or under the projected $4.3 million cost. The community center, which opened in 1966 on Fredrick Street, was demolished in September.

The new building will have two full-size basketball courts, compared to one middle school-size gym in the previous building, as well as an indoor walking track, a weight room and a large meeting room that can be divided into smaller rooms if needed.

In addition to the traditional recreation activities, the center will host an office of the federal Women, Infants and Children program. And city officials have said they would like to have a satellite branch of the Dalton-Whitfield Library there as well as programs from the Creative Arts Guild, Dalton State College and local churches and community groups.

In addition to the bond revenue, funding for the community center project includes $500,000 in federal community development block grant money and about $1 million from the recreation department’s reserve.

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