TRACfootprintJamestown (CSi) The James River Family “Y” in Jamestown on September 2, 2014 becomes, the “James River Family Fitness Center,” but the name change will be the only difference the public will notice.

On Wednesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, the Y’s Executive Director Frank Conlin pointed out the facility will continue with all the present offerings.

He pointed out that with plans being developed over the past few years for a new Two Rivers Activity Center, (TRAC), an affiliation has been planned involving Jamestown Public Schools, Jamestown Parks and Recreation, Jamestown Tennis, and Jamestown Gymnastics, along with the James River Family Fitness Center.

The Fitness Center’s staff would become employees of Jamestown Parks and Recreation.

The planned facility would be located at the 7.5-8-acres of land north of Gussner Elementary School, in Northeast Jamestown, that was previously used for JPS 9th grade football.

TRAC would include an aquatic center with an indoor water park and outdoor water features.

The center would include space for the child care facility currently operated by the James River Family YMCA in the Larson Center, an indoor playground, an indoor turfed surface facility and an indoor fieldhouse that would have multiple-use courts and a running track.

The Two Rivers Activity Center Board of Directors should have design plans of the proposed community activity center ready for public review within four to six weeks.

Conlin added that possible funding for the Two Rivers Activity Center, could come in part from a ¾ cent City Sales tax, that is presently being used toward paying off the costs of Jamestown High School, which was approved by voters in the early 2000’s. Conlin believes the high school portion of the City Sales Tax will expire in 2017. At that time, if approved by voters, the ¾ cent City Sales Tax portion would go toward funding the TRAC facility. The two would not over lap.

He said it’s possible that a vote by residents could come in a Jamestown Special Election in December this year (2014).

Jamestown City Administrator, Jeff Fuchs says a December Special Sales Tax Vote would be running into a time crunch.

Also, he says the TRAC board needs to determine when Jamestown Public Schools will be finished paying back the sales tax that funded construction of the new high school.

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