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Jasper The Hamilton County School Board, led by Superintendent Thomas Moffses, recently conducted a series of workshops at all three elementary schools - South Hamilton, North Hamilton and Central Hamilton - to update the public on safety and security concerns at the schools.

The first workshop took place at South Hamilton Elementary (SHE) in White Springs on Monday, Jan. 27. The second was held at North Hamilton in Jennings on Tuesday, Jan. 28 and the third at Central Hamilton on Thursday, Jan. 30.

Moffses explained that what he was presenting was a continuation of something that began in May of last year.

The Florida Department of Educations facilities team came into the county and did a review of our facilities...all facilities...and then came back and gave recommendations to the board, specific to elementary schools, said Moffses.

The DOE team, he said, found a multitude of safety and security issues at all three schools, including fencing, limited parent pickup and bus loading areas, building structural problems, aging portables, inadequate fire exits, and central heating and air conditioning concerns.

Twice in the past, in 2008 and 2011, Moffses said, the DOE recommended closing both North and South Hamilton.

Central Hamilton, Moffses said, is also nearing that point. The DOE, he said, stated that all of the countys elementary schools are at an age to be replaced.

That all was presented to the school board, and from that point, they continued and said Hamilton County was eligible for a construction project, said Moffses, who then told the audience that there are numerous steps the school board must complete before presenting a plan to the DOE in August.

This is a continuing process to go through and do an evaluation of what may or may not take place in the future, Moffses explained before engaging everyone in a video that was put together by General Services Coordinator Chuck Lambert and the Hamilton County High School TV production crew, who visited each school to film critical areas of concern.

The video Moffses presented, he told the board, was an edited version of each school site, and that each facility had unique issues. The full videos for each school, he said, are lengthy, but are available for viewing.

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Work on a $700,000 project designed to reduce some of the worst impacts and risks from the flooding that plagues Kaeo is on schedule and now more than 50 percent complete.

Bruce Howse, Land/Rivers Senior Programme Manager for the Northland Regional Council, says the work on the project began late last year and aims to protect the town from destructive, high-speed floodwater rushing through it.

Mr Howse says while the scheme includes a roughly 1km long network of three-metre high stopbanks, it is not designed (nor intended to) stop flooding from occurring.

"What it is designed to do is to deflect damaging, high-speed floodwaters away from the town with a series of stopbanks and essentially convert it into slow-speed back-water flooding."

Mr Howse says the work - at this stage expected to be finished on schedule at the end of next month - is being funded via a roughly 50/50 split between central government ($386,000) and a targetted rate on approximately 2200 local properties.

He says good progress has been made to date overall, with a several-hundred metre long flood wall on the Whangaroa College grounds complete and scheme drainage and the works main stopbank from the Pohue Pa to the college progressing well. A large spillway cut upstream of those works was also about 50% complete.

Mr Howse says collectively, the Kaeo works will slow the speed of future floods and should make them much less damaging and dangerous.

"Its definitely not a silver bullet solution but it will make it easier for residents to protect flood-prone properties with sandbags and other tools like flood shutters."

"Kaeo is built on a floodplain and has flooded for as long as recorded history. Its position and local geography means a practical and affordable solution to stop flooding from happening competely is simply not possible."

Meanwhile, Mr Howse says a temporary river crossing for machinery to haul earth across the Kaeo River from the spillway to the stopbanks has also been working well.

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Del Mar's new turf course is expected to help lure a future Breeders' Cup.

DEL MAR If you think putting in a new turf course at a race track is as simple as watching grass grow, well, you dont know worms about turf.

For an understanding of how involved it is to put in a new grass course for 1,200-pound race horses at Del Mar, know this: It all started Oct. 1, 2012 when sprigs of Greg Norman 1 (GN1) Bermuda grass were planted on a sandy, 12-acre plot in Coachella Valley.

Now February, 2014, that grass is mature and more than ready to be cut, rolled and transported to where the new and improved turf will meet the surf at Del Mar. For nearly a year and a half, the Pacific Sod Company has followed a stringent growing and maintenance plan developed by Del Mar to grow the new turf course.

Thats almost a year and a half of growing, which is unheard of (for a project like Del Mars), said Leif Dickinson, turf and landscape superintendent at Del Mar. It was costly to do, and we dont have NFL money here. But what we have is turf that is as strong as we can make it. That was the key. Grow strong turf and grow it for as long as possible. Its in very good shape. Its ready to go.

Dickinson said the original plan to roll out Del Mars new grass was delayed by more than a month because of soft ground discovered along the backstretch. The plan called for the turf to be put in by early January. The old turf course was installed in 1959-60 for the 1960 summer meeting. It had 53 meetings run on it before it was dug out last fall. It had hidden challenges.

A lot of areas had to be dug out, said Dickinson, who installed Santa Anitas present downhill turf course in 1996. We found soft spots that were difficult to compact. Were at sea level or below here. If you dig down too far, the way it was described to me, its kind of like a cookie on top of a milkshake. If you break through the cookie, theres nothing left below but milkshake. Weve had to re-form the cookie in some areas that needed it. It had to be re-compacted and sealed.

Dickinson said the target date for installing the new grass and sod has been pushed back to Feb. 21 or thereabouts. He said even if the turf doesnt go in until early March, the course will be ready for the Del Mar summer meeting that goes from mid-July to September.

With our climate, well be OK with the latter part of February or even the first part of March (for placing the new turf), Dickinson said. Thats when things actually start to grow here anyway. Its not a deal breaker. Were just anxious to get it down.

When Del Mar opens in July, its tracks will sport vastly different looks and its turf will be treated very differently. The turf course will be wider, making it more attractive for a future Breeders Cup because the turf course will handle 14 horses instead of the 12 in previous years. Del Mar remains in ramped up discussions with Breeders Cup officials who want to bring the games national championships, two days of Grade I racing in early November, to Del Mar, possibly as early as next year and certainly by 2016.

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