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APR 17 1990 Boor 79 PnEWX <br />Commissioner Bird explained that we have been working for <br />3-4 years to acquire a 40 -acre piece of property owned by CIBA- <br />GEIGY that fronts on Kings Highway and is next to Kiwanis Hobart <br />Park. When he first asked CIBA-GEIGY to consider donating that <br />piece of property, they indicated they might be interested in <br />making some kind of a land swap if we had anything to trade with <br />them. They showed the most interest in property to the west of <br />Kings Highway, just north of their agricultural experimental <br />operation, that would allow them to expand that operation. So, <br />he started looking at available property in that area and found <br />out that Mr. Anders Nyquist owned 3 parcels of land to the north <br />of the CIBA-GEIGY property and was negotiating on an additional <br />piece that adjoined one that he already owned. Mr. Nyquist <br />indicated that he would be willing to sell those parcels to the <br />County so that we might trade them to CIBA-GEIGY for their 40 <br />acres, and CIBA-GEIGY indicated that they would be interested in <br />our trading them those parcels for the 40 acres. However, they <br />were interested in seeing if they could also purchase some <br />additional property contiguous to those parcels so that they <br />wouldn't end up with 3 separate parcels of land in that area. <br />Those negotiations have taken a long time, but have finally <br />been resolved. CIBA-GEIGY has entered into a contract to <br />purchase the additional properties around Mr. Nyquist's property, <br />and a couple of months ago, after appraisals were completed, the <br />County entered into an option agreement with Mr. Nyquist to <br />purchase his property as part of the exchange. Being a large <br />international corporation, CIBA-GEIGY has been somewhat slow in <br />getting all of their decisions made at corporate level as to <br />approving the exchange and buying the additional parcels, but <br />that has now occurred. In the meantime, Mr. Nyquist has been <br />very cooperative with the County in staying with his original <br />price and agreeing to give us an extension on our options to <br />allow all of this to take place in a timely manner. Yesterday we <br />18 <br />