Community
Center Grant Proposal Fails;
Bond Feasibility Study Begins
Although final, official word has not been received, Eugene Hirt said Rep. Robert Junell’s office has notified Glasscock County that its application for a Texas Department of Transportation grant has not been funded. The grant was to be used in building a community center which would have housed a rural transportation museum.
Members of the Glasscock County Lions Community Center and Historical Foundation’s Board of Directors met March 14 to discuss what direction the community center effort should now take.
Warren Multer said this group has done what was asked of it when the Foundation was formed, which was to look at various ways to find funding for the project, “But the money hasn’t happened.” Multer said he thinks the time has come to ask the county’s commissioner’s court to call a bond election to fund the community center project, “Then see what the people want.”
Charles Zachry agreed, and said the commissioner’s court doesn’t necessarily have to endorse the project, they just have to call the bond election. He said a committee of citizens, which would function outside the Foundation, is needed to put information together and go to the commissioners’ court, since the Foundation can’t request a bond election. He said the project could be trimmed back to the earlier plans (prior to adding a museum).
Bond Feasibility Study Begins
The board voted unanimously to proceed with a feasibility study on tax rates, usage of building and support of a bond election for a community center. A committee was appointed to handle the study: Zachry and Multer are to work on gathering the tax information; Tommy Hoelscher, Steve Sturtz, Candy Jones and Delia Pierson will work on the building plans. Other people may be added to this committee.
way to finance a community
center in Garden City. The plans included meeting rooms, a large kitchen,
offices for county extension personnel, and a facility for livestock
shows. According to Foundation Board Secretary-Treasurer Maritha Blalock,
almost $38,000 has been raised, including $26,000 from five Glasscock
County Galas, $2,000 from the local Lion’s Club, $3,500 from the
county’s senior citizens group, and
$5,000 in total donations or pledges from 119 individuals in the
community. Numerous attempts
at getting foundation or grant monies have failed.