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In-kind donations of concrete, rebar and even hotel room stays are among items that will help reduce the direct cost of a $177,000 skateboard park planned for Paris.

Dave Bean of the Skateboard Park Planning Committee on Wednesday circulated a list of park-related needs that could be met by the local community. The committee has raised about $100,000 for the park to date.

It has been weeks since a Sept. 22 meeting with Wally Hollyday of California Skateparks, the Upland, Calif., firm tentatively slated to build the park. Hollyday was expected to submit a list of needed items shortly after the meeting.

“I guess I’d begun to get a little concerned that we hadn’t gotten anything back from California Skateparks,” committee member John Parsons admitted Friday. But Bean’s e-mail, he said, “perks me back up again.”

The next step will be to arrange a meeting so the committee can continue working on efforts to raise funds and secure materials for the park, Parsons said.

Items need for the planned 7,600-square-foot park include:

Hotel rooms for one week for eight workers

1 skid steer (Bobcat)

1 dump truck

800 sticks of No. 3 20-foot rebar

400 linear feet of 2-inch by 6-inch forms

500 linear feet of 6-inch siding

20 sheets of -inch plywood (CDX)

TBD (simple drains per feature)

4-inch concrete paving

100 yards of 4-inch flatwork mix concrete

1 pump

110 yards of 6-inch shotcrete for ramps

1 rock pump

1 air compressor

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