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 Board Chairman David Hepler said he was recently approached by
someone (who was unnamed) that expressed interest in purchasing a
portion of what was once the county poor farm. The portion would
measure just under 10 acres in size.
“This is simply for us to say it’s up for sale,” said Anderson.
Ruben said multiple times during the course of the discussion that
it would be better to split the parcel into two lots, on the chance
that more than one person may want to buy the land. If that
happened, the county may be able to get more money for the land from
potential bidders.
Rohlfs suggested extending the parcel to an even ten acres. If the
county did so, the land could be split into five acre lots instead
of trying to split it into uneven pieces.
 Farmer said he was opposed to selling the land in any way. “It’s the
history of Logan County. It was started in 1869, and it was added to
in 1888 to make what it is today. Back years ago, every county had a
poor farm. There’s only four counties left that have poor farms, and
I think that’s something to be proud of,” said Farmer.
Rohlfs said that there could be another reason to keep the land.
Rohlfs said that the timber on the property could be worth money,
and it could be harvested and new timber could be planted.
The board members took a vote on the matter after the discussion
ended. The motion was approved with a vote of seven-to-five with
Blankenship, Farmer, Rohlfs, Schaffenacher and Aylesworth voting no.
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After the vote it was decided that a price would be set during an
executive session at next month’s Regular County Board meeting.
However, on Wednesday a notice was sent out that there would be a Special
Regular Board meeting next Tuesday, April 28th. It will take place at North
Greens Golf Course in Atlanta at 6 p.m. The agenda was not stated.
Board members present at the meeting were Chuck Ruben, Gene Rohlfs, Robert
Farmer, David Blankenship, Pat O’Neill, Andy Anderson, Emily Davenport, Kevin
Bateman, Jan Schumacher, David Hepler, Rick Aylesworth and Scott Schaffenacher.
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