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ELKINS – The Randolph County Commission approved a bid for the construction of new bathrooms at 4-H Camp Pioneer at its most recent meeting at the James F. Cain Courthouse Annex.
Sarah Cunningham, executive director at 4-H Camp Pioneer, told Commissioners Cris Siler, David Kesling and Chris See that re-doing the bathrooms has become a high priority after recent damages.
"We have a very bad leak in the basement that caused severe damage to our very outdated bathrooms," Cunningham said. "We are in desperate need of repair and now it has become more urgent because the floor is damaged and it needs to be replaced. So we would like the funding to do that and are asking for help."
Because of some upcoming events that are scheduled at 4-H Camp Pioneer this summer, Cunningham said work on the bathrooms needed to begin as soon as possible. She told the commissioners that Camp Pioneer has formed a partnership with the bluegrass band Crandall Creek, who will be playing a host of shows there this summer.
"(Crandall Creek) will be coming this summer and they are going to bring tourists from all over the world," Cunningham said. "Right now we have 22 dates scheduled with them to cater meals, and they will bring in a minimum of two tour buses at a time. So right now we have over 3,000 people that will be coming and staying in Randolph County, so that is going to bring money in to you as well."
Cunningham said the bathroom conditions led to some negative comments about Camp Pioneer last summer.
"We did a trial run last year with a couple of shows and (people) went on Google review and put comments up about the bathrooms," she said. "So as we get started with that in June, I was really hoping that maybe we could get the bathrooms repaired so we could accept these people in."
Cunningham presented the commission with a bid estimate for $72,200. The cost included complete demolition of the boys and girls bathrooms, new plumbing, fixtures, flooring, walls and bathroom stall partitions.
The commission unanimously agreed to the amount of the bid presented. The money for the bathrooms will be taken from the county budget's community development line item.
"Those bathrooms are bad and you have a lot of people coming in," Kesling said. "I hope you can get this done before they show up… It usually takes about a week to get the funding processed for approval."
The next Randolph County Commission meeting will be today at 1:30 p.m. at the James F. Cain Courthouse Annex.