Tuesday, July 03, 2007

closings completed on ag. authority land swap...



the property, equipment and splost funds transfers are complete.

meanwhile an attorney for citizens opposed to the deal has filed an open records request with the entities involved in the various transactions.

the governments involved, apparently confident in their own legal advice, seem unconcerned about the citizen challenge and have adopted a 'damn the torpedoes; full speed ahead' attitude toward their future plans for the properties involved.

more where you would expect it barnesville.com

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Scoop,
Didn't see anything on barnesville.com. Only breaking news was the free movie!

Anonymous said...

Yeah! And another famous saying is, "I shall return".

Anonymous said...

I hope not!

Anonymous said...

The city, county, and the board of education have been doing whatever they want for so long now that I believe they think they can continue without worrying about what the public thinks. This must be the first time they have really been challenged by the public and I think they thought it would all disappear if they rushed to exchange the land and money. I thought the differences was only between the city and county but all of a sudden the board of education slipped in the side door and the IDA will more than likely enter into the picture soon when the 67 acres gets sold. For all I know they might be the future owners.

I think it’s a bad thing that citizens had to enlist an attorney against their leaders but I think it’s equally bad that their leaders would not listen to the people that put them into their positions. I’m sure the county commissioners thought they were making a compromise, but they actually come out of this looking like the biggest fools in the county.

Anonymous said...

How so?

Anonymous said...

They got the gold mine, we get the shaft!

Anonymous said...

5:35 PM what are you, scoops little nut hugger?

Anonymous said...

ding dung ding dung torpeter gaining on our backend. looks like we bout to take one up the shaft. brace fer inpact. ding dung ding dung ding dung