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• • <br />"Emergency Acquisition" LAAC Guide Procedures <br />The subject Kroegel parcel is not on the LAAC acquisition list. At the January 16 meeting, Staff advised <br />the LAAC that, if the Minimum Criteria are revised such that the parcel would then be eligible for <br />consideration, the parcel could be considered as an "emergency acquisition" consistent with the Land <br />Acquisition Guide. According to the Guide, an "emergency acquisition" can be declared only if at least <br />one of the following conditions exists: <br />• Critical habitat or natural resources not on the priority list are identified as being under an <br />unforeseen immediate threat of destruction or damage. <br />• Previously identified habitat or natural resources listed on the priority list are under immediate <br />and unforeseen threat. <br />• An immediate opportunity exists for cost -share purchase of critical habitat or natural resources <br />in conjunction with another agency. <br />Staff advised the LAAC that the Kroegel parcel could be considered an "emergency acquisition" in that <br />there is an immediate opportunity for purchase of the parcel in coordination with TPL under an existing <br />contract. <br />LAAC Recommendation <br />At the LAAC's special meeting of January 16, a motion to support county acquisition of the Rodney <br />Kroegel parcel as a stand-alone purchase, but not using environmental land bond funds, failed to pass. <br />Subsequently, the LAAC voted 6 to 4 to conceptually support public purchase of all three of the "historic <br />and park -like" Kroegel Homestead core parcels, but not using environmental land bond funds. As a <br />result, the LAAC did not vote to recommend amending the Guide or to add the Kroegel property to its <br />acquisition list as an emergency acquisition. <br />RECOMMENDATION: <br />Staff recommends that the Board of County Commissioners not use environmental land bond funds in its <br />consideration of purchase of the Rodney Kroegel parcel. <br />ATTACHMENTS: <br />1. Map of the Rodney Kroegel parcel and other Kroegel Homestead "core" parcels <br />2. Terrence O'Brien memorandum dated 08;26/93 <br />3. November 2001 letter from TPL concerning the Rodney Kroegel property <br />JANUARY 22, 2002 <br />-43- <br />2l <br />0 <br />