The Islander. (St. Simons Island, Ga.) 1972-current, December 17, 2018, Image 6
Page 6, December 17, 2018, The Islander BOE discusses securing GA campus by Pamela Permar-Shierling Glynn Academy High School was chartered in 1788 and is the second oldest high school in the south and sixth oldest in the nation. It’s campus consists of multiple buildings and as such is difficult to secure. The Glynn County Board of Educa tion has approved perimeter fencing around the school, is working with the City of Brunswick to close off Mansfield Street with locked gates during school hours, and is now looking for a way to create a “front door” to the campus. At their Dec. 4 facilities committee meeting, the BOE heard a presenta tion from architect John Tuten about securing the campus and creating one City responses Continued from Page 1 Economic Development Authority (EDA), or the URA would have to take the debt for the conference center, which would be guaranteed by the city. Since the Center is a URA project, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been prepared for the URA to take on the debt, with funding to be guaranteed by the city. The URA is expected to approve the MOU when they meet on December 18. It will be presented to the City Commission for consideration at their Wednesday meeting. To sum up, at their Wednesday, Dec. 19 meeting: • the city commission will consider a financing proposal for the conference center; • consider an MOU / intergovern mental agreement with the URA to take on the conference center debt backed by the city; and • consider approval of a construc tion contract with Elkins Construction, LLC of Jacksonville, Florida for pre construction services and construction of the Oglethorpe Conference Center. Druinm told The Islander that there is enough increase in the City’s General Fund 2019 revenues to pay for the con ference center debt service. “Much of the increase is in the sales tax revenue,” he said. The budget shows a $200,000 increase over 2018 in the LOST (Local Option Sales & Use Tax) revenues. Druinm also said the center is not meant to compete with the Jekyll Island Convention Center but the Oglethorpe Center would handle medium sized groups. The city’s fiscal year 2019 budget in creased by $6.3 million including $6.2 million in loan proceeds. $1 million of entry point where all visitors would en ter and exit. Tuten suggested a structure at tached to the campus side of The His toric Glynn Academy building, which sits on Monck and Norwich Streets would, that could house the principal, a nurse, and an SRO (School Resource Officer). Everyone coming onto campus once school has started and all other access es are locked would enter the campus through this building and leave the same way. It would be like entering the front door of any other school. Tuten will present more informa tion and costs to the board in January. those loan proceeds is for the T Street Landfill and $5.2 million is for the Oglethorpe Conference Center. The city also owes about $500,000 for the purchase and renovation in 2009 of monies borrowed from Suntrust for the Mansfield St. building. The City borrowed $1.1 million in Oct. 2009 to purchase and renovate the building. The annual debt service is $106,000 and will be paid back by Oct. 2024. When asked about the operations cost of the Oglethorpe Center, Drumm said it was hard to cost-out at this point. “Two things have not been deter mined,” he said. “We don’t know if a management company will operate the center or if city staff will operate it.” “Then there is always the possibility that the hotel would operate the center. If there is not hotel at the beginning, then city staff would probably operate the center,” he said. “Right now the con ference center schedule is ahead of the hotel.” “If the city operates the center it would probably cost $180,000 to $225,000 per year to operate, and it would be like operating a community center,” he said. “The city is looking to the URA for the direction of the management choice,” Drumm said. In response to a question regarding marketing costs, Druinm said again that the city is looking to the URA to determine who would do the marketing. “If the city markets the center, it would be done through Travis Stegall’s department (Stegall is Director of the city’s Department of Economic and Community Development),” Drumm said. “The City Commission has autho rized the URA to make these decisions,” Drumm said. Terry Creek Continued from Page 1 ‘We have been dealing with this for 24 years,” Brunson continued. “It’s in our town and our community. 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