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Attorney Vitunac advised that in the meantime the Fair <br />Corporation will be appointed by the Board under its new amended <br />charter, which is being prepared for submission to Circuit Court: <br />Once the Fair Corporation is constituted and officially meets, <br />the County Commission will negotiate with the Fair Corporation <br />for a lease; the Fair Corporation then will negotiate with the <br />Firefighters; and the County Commission wild., more or less, <br />withdraw from the daily operations of the fair. The control of <br />the County Commission will come through its annual appointment of <br />the membership of the Corporation. <br />Commissioner Eggert asked if there is now a master plan for <br />the fairgrounds that says this building is what we want and where <br />we want it to be. <br />Commissioner Bird confirmed that we do have a master plan <br />for the Fairgrounds that shows this building on the location they <br />are planning it, and we will be updating the master plan. <br />Chairman Scurlock noted that the Fairgrounds is a large <br />piece of land with equipment on it that needs to be taken care of <br />all year long, and he felt the site should be administered by the <br />County Administrator and an advisory board, and should have <br />recommendations for an annual budget, etc. The Chairman felt we <br />should have two distinct and separate entities - a c-o-Lmty-run and <br />administered fairground and then the relationship with the <br />Firefighters for the county fair. Right now we have got the <br />County, the Fair Corporation, the Firefighters, and the Union, or <br />about four entities who are not sure how all this interrelates, <br />and he would like to refer this back to staff to work on this <br />lease, get things structured in a proper way, and analyze whether <br />it is worth it to be a county fair or not. . <br />Commissioner Bird noted that it is frustrating to have a <br />corporation who wants to build a building of this size, which we <br />can use 50 weeks out of the year, and it seems there must be some <br />vehicle to work it out. He did agree with the Chairman on how the <br />structure for administering the fairgrounds should work. <br />58 <br />Bou 66 pnv 493 <br />