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A Brief History of the Weigh-in Pavilion…….….Rick Persson, Vice President Back in 2003 Brad Arnold, then secretary of SAFER, had the vision of building a much needed weigh-in pavilion at Holiday Park. He contacted SFWMD and found out what needed to be done to get approval, had plans drawn up, and went so far as to submit the plan to SFWMD. Problem being there was no money in our budget at that time, we didn’t even have the funds to pay the $165 permitting fee. The project was dropped. A year or so went by, Brad moved to Arizona, and I started hearing from the anglers at Holiday Park, “Where’s the weigh-in Pavilion?” I started doing research on finding money, and heard that B.A.S.S. Federation Nation had grant money available for conservation projects. I contacted Chris Horton, and he said that we should qualify for a grant, he gave me the forms to fill our and I did and sent them directly to him. It took several months to get the approval for the grant in the sum of $5000. As soon as I found out that we had the money coming, I started the permitting order of business. After many attempts to find out who to contact, I finally hit on Herky Huffman, then Chairman of FWC. Shortly after talking with Herky, I was contacted by Carol Wehle, and Laura Lythgow of SFWMD permitting office, and made an appointment to see her. She walked me through the procedure to fill out the forms and also told me of a waiver of the application fee to ask for. I went home and filled out the forms, and hand carried the forms and the check for $165 directly to Laura Lythgow on March 22 2007. In June, I was notified that all the applications were accepted, and our permitting fee was refunded. Alex Supik, an active SAFER member, put me in contact with the Chickee Hut Company, and they agreed to build the hut for $4200. The chickee is up, and we ordered the lumber for the build-out on Jan. 16th, 2008. The floor went in on Jan. 13th, 2008 and the walls, counters and ads up by mid February. I am working with Jon Fury of FWC to develop a suggested method of live release for Tournament Directors to consider. |
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