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Project: Harrington Preschool Playground <br />CPA Category: Recreation <br />Amount Requested: $75,000 <br />Amount Recommended: $75,000 <br />CPC Vote: Approval (9-0) <br />Project Description: <br />Lexington Children’s Place (LCP), a public preschool program that has served Lexington <br />children, with and without special needs, at various sites for 16 years, is proposing to construct <br />an accessible playground at the new Harrington School. LCP provides preschool programming <br />for 75 children and special education services for 40 children. Many children attending LCP <br />have physical challenges that do not allow them to enjoy typical playground equipment. These <br />children often require ramps and transfer platforms, specialized swings and sandboxes with <br />supports for sitting, in order to participate fully in the gross motor curriculum that is intrinsic to <br />their learning. Additionally, neighborhood preschoolers, as well as Harrington kindergarten and <br />first grade students, with and without special needs, could utilize this fully accessible playground <br />structure. <br />Project Goals and Objectives: <br />An appropriate-sized, wheelchair ramped playground will be constructed, separate from <br />the existing Harrington playground, in an area not previously used for play structures. <br />The play equipment will include transfer platforms, specialized swings, and sandboxes <br />with supports for sitting, to facilitate gross motor development. <br />Specialized playground will encourage daily outdoor play, which is viewed by the Mass. <br />Department of Education as an important preschool opportunity for learning. <br />Project Benefit: <br />The Lexington Children’s Place has recently located at the new Harrington School, which has no <br />appropriate playground for small children with physical challenges. This project would address <br />the need for new play equipment designed to encourage learning and physical development of <br />preschoolers who attend the LCP program. Neighborhood children, as well as kindergartners <br />attending Harrington who may be physically challenged, will also be able to use this specialized <br />playground. <br />Funding Request: <br />The project is estimated to cost $95,000, of which $20,000 has already been raised by parent <br />fundraising efforts. The $75,000 requested from CPA funds will pay for furnishing and <br />installing playground structures, including: a ramped structure with two slides, monkey bars, two <br />covered play spaces, wiggle bridge, two teeter totters, four accessible swings and a covered <br />sandbox. Site preparation ($20,000) will include layout and excavation of play area, installation <br />of geo-fabric and wood-fiber surface, three rubber wear areas, as well as clearance of several <br />large trees, leveling of the lot and erecting four foot-high fencing with double gates. <br />14 <br /> <br />
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