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<br />LAW OFFICES <br />COLEMAN, GLEDHILL, HARGRAVE & PEEK <br />A PROFESSIONAL COMORATION <br />129 E. TRYON STREET <br />P. O. DRAWER 1529 <br />HILLSBOROUGH, NORTH CAROLINA 27278 <br />919-7322196 <br />EAX 9t9~732-7997 <br />wunv.cgandh.com April 13, 2004 <br />Mr. Rod Visser <br />Assistant Orange County Manager <br />Post Office Box 8181 <br />Hillsborough, North Carolina 27278 <br />FROM THE DESK OF <br />GEOFFREY E. CLEDHIC L. <br />EMAIL: scaRmyslulhN@«nndhmm <br />RE: Allison property purchased by Board of Education <br />Dear Rod: <br />Enclosed is correspondence and a Resolution of the Orange <br />County Board of Education that I received from Mike Parker, the <br />Orange County Board of Education's attorney, As you know, under <br />N.C. Gen. Stat. § 115C-518 Orange County has what amounts to a <br />first refusal on property owned by a board of education that is <br />planned for disposition by the board of education, The statute <br />requires that the Board of Education afford the Board of County <br />Commissioners "...the first opportunity to obtain the property. The <br />board of education [must] offer the property to the board of <br />commissioners at a fair market price or at a price negotiated <br />between the two boards..,," <br />There has been no negotiation between the Board of Education <br />and the Board of Commissioners with respect to the house and <br />building that the Board of Education proposes to sell back to the <br />Allisons. Therefore, I would interpret the Resolution of the Board <br />of Education to be an offer to sell these structures to orange <br />County for a sum of $1.00 with a requirement that Orange County <br />remove them, through one method or another, from the Board of <br />Education land where they now "reside," at Orange County expense on <br />or before July 21, 2004. <br />This "offer" on the part of the Board of Education should be <br />presented for the Board of Commissioners consideration in time for <br />