Project Description Country: USA Location: Ketchikan, Alaska Total Budget: $1,500 Area of Focus: Community economic development Activity Type: Community Development: General Summary: A concrete landing with benches and fire pit at the base of a handicap ramp to the beach surface. A public beach sponsored by Rotary 2000, allowing access to everyone. This is a continuation of the club project from 2018-2019. A few years ago our club built a concrete ramp down to the beach to allow access for anyone to the beach. We now want to add a flat concrete landing with benches and fire pit to allow access to activities such as beach fires for people who have difficulty moving over logs and uneven sandy beach surfaces. In the previous phase of the project, approximately half of the club and their families were involved hands-on in the building process, as well as some Boy Scouts working on their Eagle Scout badge. In this phase we expect at least the same level of involvement. This project provides access to anyone who wants to experience beach activities such as picnics, beach fires, or playing with grandchildren, instead of having to watch from a distance. We have engineering drawings, cost estimates and have double checked with the Army Corp of Engineers to make sure it won't need any special permits. The funds will be used to pay for rebar and concrete. The forms and labor will all be prepared and completed by club members. All of the costs for the rebar and concrete are given at discounts by local vendors. This is a continuation of the project from the 2018-2019 Rotary Year. Due to winter weather not being conducive to pouring concrete, we have not finished the project in the 2018-2019 year. Also, the Ketchikan Gateway Borough and the Army Corp of Engineers held us up in the fall with new, unexpected paperwork even though the project had been green lighted months before. Things seem to be clear with those groups now, and we are waiting for better weather to complete the project. Project Contact Person District: 5010 Rotary Club of: Ketchikan Primary Contact: Stuart Whyte Email: stuart@krbd.org Project Status Completed This project is "Completed". This means the project has been implemented and the report was accepted by the district leadership. The project will stay listed on this website as a testimony of the achievements of the project partners. Project listed for the 2019-20 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total Ketchikan (5010) 20-Apr-19 $1,000 $500 $1,500 Total $1,000 $500 $1,500

Project Supporting Documents Alphabetical with icons By date with icons Alphabetical list format By date list format [5-Oct-21] Final Report [16-Apr-20] Alaska DEC Wastewater Antidegradation Form [16-Apr-20] Beach Master w/ 1st City Rotary Harmony Park Added [16-Apr-20] Landing Pad Detail Original Draft [3-Sep-21] Payment to Three Dog Construction for project [11-Aug-21] Rotary Beach Master Plan & Permits [16-Apr-20] Rotary Beach Master Plan Original Draft [16-Apr-20] US Army Corps Public Notice of Permit Application

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History Log Entries 20-Apr-19 by Stuart Whyte System Entry: Creation of project page. 20-Apr-19 by Vivian Finlay System Entry: Project sent for club signatures. 23-Apr-19 System Entry System Entry: Project signed by Stuart Whyte. 23-Apr-19 System Entry System Entry: Project signed by Chelsea Goucher. 24-Apr-19 by Alex Slivka System Entry: Project approved by the District Approval Committee. 25-Aug-19 by Debra Mason System Entry: Check for DDF payment issued by Foundation Treasurer. 31-Oct-19 by Stuart Whyte Local matching funds for this project were raised through sponsorships sold for our Trunk or Treat event held on Halloween. Planning for the event began in September with the goal of raising $1,000 ($700 for the project and $300 for prize support). We ended up exceeding our goal and were able to fully fund the project from the proceeds raised. 29-Jan-20 by Stuart Whyte Continuation of previous entry: If permitting and applications are on track we should be able to complete our portion of the project in the spring or early summer of 2020. Borough Public Works will present their resolutions for funding from the Borough in April of 2020, and projects September of 2020 as their time frame to complete their portions of Phase 1 of the master plan. The Borough Public Works will also be responsible for a valve replacement, slope refill, tree removal, and backfill for the Harmony Park site. We will support the Borough Public Works either with additional manpower or funding to help see this project to completion. 29-Jan-20 by Stuart Whyte Resubmission of this entry. Error on 1st attempt. Club member Fred Monrean and I met with PE Scott Brainard from First City Rotary, and Alex Peura and Morgan Barry from Ketchikan Gateway Borough Public Works to discuss the master plan for the Rotary Beach site and the various project stages we are all looking to implement. The improvements will start with our landing pad followed by landscape, access, and drainage improvements from the borough, and finally the Harmony Park to be erected by First City Rotary during the 2020-2021 year. It is our intent to work with the borough on the long-term improvement of the site. The improvements listed above would be phase 1 of a multi-year, multi-phase improvement plan. The Corps permit will include maintenance, dredging, and erosion control. 24-Mar-20 by Stuart Whyte Application for permit received by US Army Corps of Engineers from Alex Peura (Ketchikan Gateway Borough) and Fred Monrean Sr. (Rotary 2000). Public Notice of Application for Permit released by the Corps. The public comment period on the application ends 30 days from the release of the notice (April 24th). Fred indicated that the actual permit should be received about 60 days from the release of the public notice, so on or around May 24th. Once we have the permit in hand, work on the landing pad and the Borough's improvements can begin. See documents page for a copy of the Army Corps notice. 31-Mar-20 by Stuart Whyte Phone call with Brad Gamble about the status of this project, and our Robotics project. I indicated that both were still ongoing and that various amounts of progress had been made on both. I just had not updated info on the Grants site yet. As this project was a continuation of a project from last year, the question arose regarding last year's final report and disposition of the grant funds from last year. I indicated that I thought a final report had been submitted by then President Dave Albertson, and that the funds from last year had been returned. I said that I would contact Dave to confirm. 1-Apr-20 by Stuart Whyte I contacted Past President Dave on April 1st, and he indicated the following: "It was my understanding that we did return the money. That being said, 'I' didn’t do it. I thought it was done. We may not have. I did do a final report where I explained that the project was delayed by the Army Corps and the Borough, and that we would be applying again." I believe the funds from last year didn't get returned as intended. It was indicated to me that this is not necessarily a problem as long as we actually use the funds how they were intended, or allocate them to a new project. We will apply them to the completion of the project this year, which puts our funding total at $2,300 for the project this year. 1-Apr-20 by Stuart Whyte Alaska DEC Antidegradation Form 2G completed and submitted by Fred Monrean and Alex Peura. Form indicates no significant wastewater or discharge will be produced by this project. The only impact will be minimal siltation. See documents page for a copy of the submitted DEC form. 21-Jul-20 by Stuart Whyte Club members met at the Rotary Beach site to clear trees and brush that would make access and preparation for completing our project easier. It also helps to prepare for future projects to be completed by First City Rotary and the Ketchikan Gateway Borough for future development of the site. COVID has continued to put significant delays on completing our projects, but we intend to make further progress before the end of this current Rotary year. 16-Apr-21 by Stuart Whyte Per President Chelsea: Our Club planned to complete the Rotary Beach Landing last spring. With the onset of COVID and the concern that surrounded the pandemic, our Club was unable/unwilling to meet in person and it was nearly impossible to get a group of physically agile people together that could have completed a job that requires so much elbow grease. We have some extra money in our Club coffers, and we are currently planning to work with the Ketchikan Gateway Borough to not only complete the landing/District Grant portion of the project, but also dovetail it with some other municipal efforts to improve the area around Rotary Beach. The club seems to be interested in meeting again, so the plan for finishing out the Rotary year is to wrap up Rotary Beach, between now and the end of June. 27-Jul-21 by Stuart Whyte Check for payment to Three Dog Construction to complete the ramp landing project cut and mailed this day. See the check image in the photos tab. Construction will take place this fall. Will update again when in progress or completed. 11-Aug-21 by Stuart Whyte Uploaded Rotary Beach Master Plan & Permits documents which contain estimates for the costs to complete the construction of the ramp landing as well as further improvements to the site to be worked on by Rotary 2000 and the Ketchikan Gateway Borough during this fiscal year and beyond. 3-Sep-21 by Stuart Whyte System Entry: Final Report signed by Stuart Whyte. 6-Sep-21 System Entry System Entry: Final Report signed by Chelsea Goucher. 7-Sep-21 by Paul Paslay System Entry: Project reverted to "Paid". 5-Oct-21 by Stuart Whyte System Entry: Final Report signed by Stuart Whyte. 5-Oct-21 System Entry System Entry: Final Report signed by Chelsea Goucher. 7-Oct-21 by Paul Paslay System Entry: Final report approved by the District Approval Committee.