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Thursday, September 21,2017 The Baldwin Bulletin I Your local newspaper Page A9 ALAINA MINSHEW/Staff Board members present during the special called meeting discuss whether or not to allow Georgia Military College to lease two buildings on Central State Hospital grounds. Lease Continued from A1 took a vote on whether or not to lease two former buildings at CSH. “So right now Baugh Barracks has a total of 254 beds, we at present have 285 cadets,” Col. Ralph L. Kauzlarich, executive director of GMC’s Milledgeville campus, said. “Our long term plan is to have about 300 cadets. We’re actually turning students away now.” While GMC is in the process of acquiring more space for housing, they still need room for the cadets they have right now. Kauzlarich wants to see the number of cadets rise, which will require more housing for the school. “We’re also in the process of buying additional property and have a daycare center on South Jefferson,” Kauzlarich said. “We are in the process of restoring that to give us a little bit more flexibility of residential opportunity.” Russ Walden, CSHLRA board member, brought up his concerns about the cadets staying in the two buildings. Walden said he doesn’t want to see damage done to the buildings, and he wanted to know if the cadets would be responsible citizens while they roomed in the buildings. “I have some concerns that need to be resolved,” Walden said. “Who has liability? What kind of insurance is involved? What kind of supervision of the cadets will be there?” Kauzlarich said the cadets would be supervised, and they would usually be there at night to sleep. They would still have to eat and do other activities on GMC grounds. “They have to be second year cadets, they have to be ECP (Early Commissioning Program) or state service and they have to have a grade point average of 3.0 or higher,” Kauzlarich said. “For those of you that went to GMC, that’s not going to be easy. These cadets will be focused.” Walden had further concerns due to board members of CSHLRA also being apart of the board of the GMC Foundation. John Ferguson, treasurer of CSHLRA, said others have had an opportunity to step forward before GMC did. “Also a conflict of interest is of concern,” Walden said. “Four of us are board members of the GMC Foundation, and I don’t want it to look like we are giving preference to Georgia Military College as opposed to others that want to use these buildings.” All members present voted on leasing the buildings to GMC after the discussion took place. They agreed it was a good decision to allow the expanding number of cadets to use the two vacant buildings. Board members of CSHLRA, including Bruce Vaughn, are happy to have excellent future leaders on the property. “Frankly, I’m delighted that Georgia Military College is considering our campus,” Vaughn said. “I’m excited about them partnering with us and I want to see them out here on campus.” BOE Continued from A1 can do for $2.5 million,” she said. “We’re looking at how far your dollars will go.” Bell said the company had a geotechnical survey done on where the stake holders believed would be the prime location for the softball field. However, the survey showed that the land would not be able to work for that due to potential problems with leveling and settlement. “We always suspected that, but it is always good to get a second opinion and make sure that you are true in your thoughts,” Bell said. Geotechnical surveys are done to obtain information on soil and rock around a site to determine if a facility could be placed on a plot with little problem. Other challenges GMC is looking at regarding the sports facilities are ease of traffic and adequate parking, updated restrooms and aesthetic facelifts. An estimated cost for the softball field is $876,000. Of that, $500,000 would be for the concession stands, restrooms and a field house. An additional $185,000 would be fore laser grading, sod, irriga tion, backstop and netting for the field. Smaller costs for the field include work on dugouts, bullpens, bleachers, a scoreboard, batting cages and storage. “The softball complex will have a complete facelift,” Bell said. “In this process, we decided the baseball complex looked rather well. The baseball complex is one of the better facilities you have out here.” Additional funding esti mates budgeted $200,000 for tennis court resurfacing and fencing and $240,000 for renovations of the soccer field. The majority of the soccer field costs would go to laser grading and sod. When focusing on parking, there was discus sion about whether a gravel lot would be required or if parking could be done on the grass near the facilities. “One of our biggest concerns has been to provide access to everyone at each of these facilities,” Bell said. Bell said now the plan was to pave up to the handicap parking spaces and have overflow parking available beside those areas. The allowance for a gravel parking lot, entry road and mass grading was placed at $425,000. To conclude the presen tation, Bell talked to the board about the field houses and press boxes proposed at the baseball and softball fields. The field house would have two sets of locker rooms for boys and girls, as well as a concession stand. In addition, a second level would be inside the building to be used as a press box for the games. “That is all to be deter mined, and you know how design goes,” Bell said. “It’s always changing, but this is a general idea.” No action has been taken regarding the facilities. Right now, the project is still in an exploratory phase. OBIE AWARD PLAY ABOUT 50 BRIDES// BY CHARLES MEE// DIRECTED BY KATHY NEWMAN SEPT. 29-30 mb OCT. 2-3 <r 7:39 P.M.» SUNDAY OCT. 1« 2 P.M. RUSSELL AUDITORIUM // FOR MATURE AUDIENCES GC STUDENTS s 5 SENIOR CITIZENS, GC FACULTY/STAFF, NON GC STUDENTS s 19 GEORGIA GFNFDtl l 7! 2eaJo/tTor GTJLLrTxL, CABARETS GCSUTICKETS.COM// FOR INFO: 478-445-4226 A ^™ A BALDWIN COUN SCHOO CONTRIBUTED A proposed outline shows what the upgraded facility layouts would look like near Baldwin High School. 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