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Board approves $368,107 for Kiwanis Park court lighting; county accepts $18,000 state youth-sports grant for batting-cage lights

2171700 · January 22, 2025
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Summary

The Board approved a purchase order and budget amendment to install sports court lighting at Kiwanis Park and accepted a $18,000 North Carolina Youth Sports Fund grant for batting-cage lighting. Commissioners discussed public support and timing; staff said the project includes basketball, pickleball and tennis lighting and a 25-year maintenance/wrR

The Pender County Board of Commissioners voted on Jan. 21 to fund sports-court lighting at Kiwanis Park and to accept a related grant for batting-cage lighting. Dory Ramirez, project manager in the County Manager's Office, told the board the project bid came in below estimates and recommended using a cooperative purchasing contract with Musco Sports Lighting for a purchase order of $368,107.

Ramirez described the package as covering two full-size basketball courts, four pickleball courts, six tennis courts, 12 galvanized steel poles with precast concrete bases, 38 illumination fixtures and a 25-year maintenance and warranty through the Musco contract. "Moving forward, in order to…

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