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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: May 4, 2004 Action Agenda Item No. _Cj-(- SUBJECT: Disposition of Orange County Board of Education Property DEPARTMENT: Manager/Attorney PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No ATTACHMENT(S): 4/13/04 County Attorney Letter 4/12/04 OCS Board Resolution 3/24/04 Letter to OCS Board from Allisons INFORMATION CONTACT: Rod Visser, ext 2300 Geof Gledhill, 732-2196 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968-4501 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 336-227-2031 PURPOSE: To consider a request from the Orange County Board of Education regarding any interest the County might have in exercising its right of first refusal to acquire Board of Education surplus property, BACKGROUND: As outlined in the attached letter from the County Attorney, school systems considering whether to dispose of certain surplus properties are required to offer that property at fair market value (or under other mutually acceptable terms) to the Board of County Commissioners in which the school system and the property are located. The Orange County Schools (OCS) have received a request from Owen and Mabel Allison to remove a structure from the property of the planned site for OG5 Middle School #3, That property was sold to OCS by the Allisons earlier in 2004, The structure in question is the Allisons' house, which they propose to relocate to another parcel of land in this area. Staff recommend that the BOGC decline to exercise their right of first refusal on the Allison home, thereby enabling the Board of Education to dispose of the property as outlined in their attached resolution. FINANCIAL IMPACT: There is no direct financial impact associated with this action, RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board decline to exercise its right to obtain the property described in the agenda materials, and direct the County Attorney to provide written notification to that effect to the Board of Education's attorney.