Facing a Jan. 31 deadline for a grant application that could help Flat Rock acquire Highland Lake Golf Course for a municipal park, a village exploratory committee laid plans Wednesday for garnering support from homeowners and merchants.Read it all, but just a reminder that no decision or commitment has yet been made by the village council on purchasing the Highland Lake golf course property. The exploratory committee is advisory only and plans on presenting its information to the village council at the February 4 council agenda meeting.
The Highland Lake Park Exploratory Committee needs to have a “documented presentation to and support from non-governmental groups” in order to apply for a $500,000 grant from the N.C. Parks and Recreation Trust Fund, said committee member Albert Gooch.
Although a public forum held Nov. 15 demonstrated a majority of Flat Rock residents support the 65-acre park if it's kept open and passive, committee members discussed how the village could make its grant application more competitive....
In hopes of gaining letters of support from local homeowner's association boards, the Flat Rock Merchant's Association and the nonprofit Historic Flat Rock Inc., committee members are planning a public meeting at 4 p.m. Jan. 16 in the Highland Lake Golf Course clubhouse....
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Flat Rock park committee seeks public support for grant
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So instead of really caring about the park development they were only using us to get the requirements to request monies of a GRANT ?
ReplyDeleteWe need to make sure that our support is only indicated provisionally upon the "Park being used as intended" by our homeowners assoc.
Smells of Soccer balls to me.....
I am almost certain the "Grant" has requirements that align with recreation ideals of soccer nature and not greenspace as we indicated.
Why did they not tell us about the motive of their efforts?
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