Cape County commissioners pledge $10k to community college needs analysis survey

Cape Girardeau County commissioners approved the use of $10,000 from the capital improvement fund to go toward a needs analysis survey for a proposed community college in the Cape Girardeau area.

Rich Payne, chairman of the Committee for Affordable Technical Education, said the committee has already raised $80,000 of the $98,375 needed to fund a needs analysis survey to create the 13th community college in Missouri.

"If you guys could assist with $10,000, I'd be happy," Payne said. "That would support what has happened, and I think, with some other funding, it will finish it off. If you guys would support it, that puts us at $90,000, and I would have $8,375 left on the table."

In other business Thursday, commissioners:

• Approved a bid for $23,150 to Hutchinson Recreation and Design of St. Louis to install playground equipment and rubber mulch surfacing at Cape County Park North.
• Approved the addition of terms and conditions to the tax-bill mailing project.
• Approved the payment of an additional $10,747 to W.E. Walker-Lakenan Insurance to cover the inclusion of equipment coverage and changes made to the county's policy.