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REAL ESTATE MEETING
COMMITTEE ROOM - November 7, 2000
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PRESENT: Hons. Colclough, 1. Brigham, Mays, Kuhlke, H. Brigham, Shepard,
Beard, Cheek, Williams and Bridges, members of Augusta Richmond County
Commission.
Also Present: Jim Wall, Attorney; Walter Hornsby, Interim Administrator and
Lena Bonner, Clerk of Commission.
Mr. Cheek: This particular property that Mr. Colclough had mentioned has a 19th
century mill pond on it, the remains of it. The City's Butler Creek trunk line runs right
through the middle of it. Most of the property is like a foot above the creek. Valley
Forge and Pepperidge are right on the edge and that is an area where someone began
developing in there and progressively changed the water flow through there. We have
water backing up in areas between Highway 25 and Windsor Spring Road and that would
also affect areas above that. We are trying to prevent a Rae's Creek type situation from
reoccurring over on Butler Creek and we are close to that right now.
Mr. Shepard: Where will we get the money?
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Mr. Colclough: What I was hoping to do was to get some kind of commitment,
get a third party to go in and act as a Georgia Trust Land Bank fund, let them take it off
the market and hold it for us until we get our Greenspace money in and then we purchase
it in.
Mr. Shepard: What are you asking for us to do today? To encourage a third party
to buy it and then maybe we get the money later on or are you asking for the money
today?
Mr. Colclough: I'm asking for a commitment that if we get a third party to go in
and purchase this piece of property, that once we get Greenspace money in here, we will
go ahead and take it off their hands.
Mr. Shepard: And if we don't get the Greenspace money?
Mr. Colclough: We're pretty sure we'll get the Greenspace money.
Mr. Shepard: How much of the money will it take?
Mr. Colclough: We can get our people to go in and do an assessment of the
property. It may not be worth $1,700 or $1,500 an acre. This is what they're asking for
it.
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Mr. Wall: You have to decide if there a contingency that it be purchased with the
Greenspace money or do you just purchase it anyway even if you don't get the
Greenspace money.
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Mr. KuWke: I think it's a good idea and you might could do something good with
70 acres out there.
Mr. Wall: We might could work with Gene Eidson's group to have an agreement.
Mr. Colclough: This is going on the auction block on Saturday so that's why we
needed to make a commitment.
Mr. Wall: My suggestion is that you allow Walter, George, the Mayor Pro Tem
and I to work through whatever contract we need if you are receptive to the money
coming out of the Greenspace if the grant comes forward.
Mr. Mays: Do we need to give you some type of authorization to proceed?
Mr. Wall: I would prefer that we not have a vote in public today and I may have
to circulate a letter depending on finicky the lawyer is for the auction company for us to
have a full, binding agreement. We can work with it.
ADJOURNMENT: There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned.
Lena J. Bonner
Clerk of Commission
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