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TO: .Board of County Commissioners <br />FROM: Charles P. Vitunac, County Attorney <br />DATE: August 5, 1988 <br />RE: PURCHASE OF LOTS ADJOINING AND TO THE <br />NORTHEAST OF THE DOWNTOWN NEW LIBRARY SITE <br />Board Meeting - August 16, 1988 <br />Stan Boling and I recently met with the long-range planning <br />committee of the First Baptist Church of Vero Beach, Inc. to <br />discuss the joint• use of certain church property to the <br />north of the main library site as parking space for the <br />library and the church. After that discussion,-- the County <br />broached the subject of what the Church was going to do with <br />Lots 12, 13, and 14, Block 36, which are adjacent to the new <br />library site on the eastern side. (That property: now <br />contains an older pink wooden building which is riddled with <br />termites, and a two-story—concrete structure which is in <br />good condition.) - The -Church committee indicated that it <br />would be disposed to sell that property to the County for <br />$175,000 for use either as a courthouse site or as <br />additional parking for the library. The committee also <br />Indicated that it has had an appraisal showing the land was <br />worth circa $263,000. <br />Robert Jackson, attorney for the Church, has written an <br />offer which the long-range planning committee would <br />recommend to the full Church board of directors at its <br />August 21, 1988, meeting. If the County is interested in <br />acqu i r 1 ng th 1 s property Mr. Bo 1 1 ng and I wou I d be happy to <br />draw up a formal written contract for presentation to the <br />Church and the Board of County Commissioners. <br />This matter is brought before the Board for its direction. <br />Chairman Scurlock wanted to authorize Commissioner Wheeler, <br />since he is on the Courthouse Advisory Committee, to begin the <br />process of not only looking at this and negotiating, but also to <br />come back with his overall recommendation at an appropriate time <br />for our new court facilities. <br />Commissioner Eggert asked if this is something we need to <br />take an option on so that we don't lose it, and Attorney Vitunac <br />explained that the initial rush is that it was not budgeted in <br />next year's budget, and if there is any money available, it would <br />have to come out of the remaining funds for this year. The <br />secondary rush is that the church wants to make permanent plans <br />37 <br />AUG 1988 booK 73 467 <br />