August.

The proclamation was made on Saturday by Donald Lines, chairman of the National Sports Centre Board of Trustees, at the Ministry of Youth and Sports annual conference at Bermuda College.

After remedial and investigative work, Johnston Sports Architects, consultants in the $46 million complex, have concluded the track needs to be resurfaced for a second time at a cost of $1.5 million.

The price includes new drainage outlets, which originally caused the problem of bubbling in the track in 1996. Despite blisters and ruptures in the track, it was still used through 1997.

Lines said Government had agreed to cover the cost of repairs.

The firm that installed the track a dozen years ago went bankrupt and the firm that performed the original repairs also went bankrupt.

Improved lighting in the existing stadium has already been completed.

The complex, which features a pool, cricket, hockey and soccer pitches, plus numerous indoor sports and community facilities, also has a new name: The Bermuda National Centre.

See story on Page 21 COMPLEX ISSUE -- Delegates at a Ministry of Youth and Sports conference on Saturday peer over a scale model of the planned $46 million Bermuda National Centre.