A Summit County panel has recommended City Hall receive less than 30 percent of the grant money it sought for the remodel of the Racquet Club.

“I was hoping for more, of course,” said Ken Fisher, recreation services manager for Park City. “But $100,000 will certainly help toward the project.”

The city has embarked on a Racquet Club remodel at a cost of nearly $10.5 million. The Summit County Recreation, Arts and Parks Tax Recreation Advisory Committee recommended Wednesday that the project receive a $100,000 grant from the county.

Fisher requested $350,000 for the project.

“It’s very important,” Fisher said about the RAP Tax grant. “We’ve got a very tight budget.”

The RAP Tax is a one-tenth of 1 percent sales-tax initiative meant to help fund art, cultural and recreation programs in Summit County. A sizable chunk of the funding is earmarked for publicly owned recreation facilities like the Racquet Club.

“Certainly the Racquet Club is a facility that benefits everyone, regionally,” Fisher said.

The Summit County Council next Wednesday is scheduled to decide whether to approve the recommendations from the advisory panel. Elected officials rarely take issue with the committee’s suggestions.

The RAP Tax recreation grants are supposed to be divvied out proportionally around the county based on the population. The recreation advisory panel had $480,000 to dole out in 2010.

Panel members this year received 10 requests for funding, the fewest ever, according to Tim Douglas, chairman of the RAP Tax Recreation Advisory Committee.

“Normally, we’re analyzing around 20 applications,” Douglas said.

The recommendations were presented to the Summit County Council on Wednesday.

“We’re funding a majority of all the programs,” Douglas said.

A key consideration was how many visitors the facilities attract.

“What we want the dollars to do is have the most impact on the most people,” Douglas said.

The Park City Council in May is expected to decide whether to award a bid for the Racquet Club project.

“Whether the project is going to go forward or not is going to come down to the bids, how much it costs,” Fisher said. “We’re all concerned about the cost of the project.”

If a bid is awarded in May, Fisher said crews could break ground on the project in July.

“It will be a great community benefit,” Fisher said.

The remodel of the Racquet Club was the largest grant the RAP committee recommended this year.

“In a lot of ways it signifies the community support for the project, and we realize that,” Fisher said. “I think it shows that there is support throughout the county for the project and people realize it needs to be done.”

Other RAP Tax recreation grants recommended by the panel included:

$43,940 for a pocket park in Coalville

$45,000 for software and a study for the North Summit Recreation District

$25,000 for park improvements in Henefer

$90,000 for park improvements in Peoa

$49,060 for a playground for the Park City School District

$37,000 for bleachers for the Snyderville Basin Special Recreation District

$25,000 for a pavilion for Basin Recreation

$15,000 for Basin Recreation to build a bicycle pump park at Trailside Park

$50,000 for Basin Recreation to build a skate park at Trailside