Clarendon College Regents will consider a proposal to enclose the college’s Livestock & Equine Center during a called meeting today at the Clarendon Country Club.
CC President Bill Auvenshine said the $113,964 proposal from Arena Design Consultants of St. Justin calls for installing eight-foot steel panels at the top of the unfinished south and east walls of the center with roll-up screens mounted below the panels.
“The screens can be raised or lowered as the weather dictates,” Auvenshine said, “making it perfect for year-round functions.”
The proposal also includes the mounting of four roll-up overhead doors and the installation of four Big Ass fans to circulate air in the arena.
“That’s actually the brand name,” Auvenshine said of the industrial type ceiling fans, the blades which will span a diameter of about 20 feet.
Auvenshine said that he had seen some of the fans at another livestock facility and told designer Brad Muncie that the LEC needed some.
“He said to me, ‘You mean those Big Ass fans?’ and I said, ‘Well, yeah.’”
If regents approve the proposal, it will be a big step in completing the LEC, which was constructed in 2003 at a cost of $1 million.
The 73,600 square foot covered arena has been an asset for the college but has been lacking in several items that were originally planned for it.
“Everyone tells us how nice the county arena is in Vernon,” Auvenshine said. “Ours will be just as nice when we get it completed.”
The president said Vernon’s facility is booked 50 weeks of the year, and he expects similar demand for the Livestock & Equine Center.
“We had the guy who designed Vernon’s arena look at our facility, and he said it is just like theirs except that it’s not finished,” Auvenshine said.
After the building is enclosed, all that remains to finish the Livestock & Equine Center will be the installation of a concrete slab, restrooms, a concession stand, and a judging stand.
“About $100,000 would finish it,” Auvenshine said of the work that remains to be done.
Also on today’s agenda, CC Regents will hold a workshop to consider the 2009-2010 budget and the 2009-2010 tax rate.
They are also scheduled to consider action on a proposal for athletic insurance; consider a proposed four percent raise for college staff; and review the college policy manual, the personnel handbook, the college catalog, and the student handbook for 2009-2010.
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