District denies $1 bid for old school building
NOTI, Ore. -- The Fern Ridge School District denied a bid from the Noti Community Center to buy the town's old elementary school building and property for a dollar, the superintendent said.
While the school building's classrooms have been closed to students for years, the classrooms are being used by the Noti Community Center.
Noti Community Center put in a request-for-proposal to buy the building and property for $1, but district superintendent Dennis Friedrich said the district turned the offer down.
“We have no idea what its worth,” Friedrich told KVAL's Ty Steele over the phone on Friday. “If you were to go and buy a car on the lot, you would want to know what it’s worth right?”
Center president Leontine A. Winters Krohn said the nonprofit has been using the space temporarily but wants to make the location permanent.
The Fern Ridge School District hired Cushman & Wakefield, a land broker and investment specialist, to perform a marketing position study.
Friedrich said the district contracted the job for three reasons: to assess the value of the entire property, to map out the best possible uses and to develop a marketing strategy for the future.
the district will hold a public meeting to explain what the study finds at Elmira High School on January 22 at 7:00 p.m.
Friedrich said the Noti Community Center will be allowed to continue using the property until they decide on another option.
What I would like to know (and has never been answered after many queries to the schoold district) is whose brother in law got the sweetheart deal to paint it up all nice and pretty the year before they shut it down?
I'm sure McMenamins knows what it's worth. They specialize in buying old schools and turning them into hotel/brewpubs.Â
What I would like to know in the first place is, how does the School District claim ownership of the building, when it was tax payers that bought it? Oh, I know, someone will say the taxpayers of Noti weren't the only ones that paid for it, but that does not matter. Tax payers from the School District paid for it and they own it, not the school district. How can a District own anything . They should give the building back to the taxpayers, Noti gets to run it and can charge nominal rental fees for it's use which would go to maintenance of the grounds and nothing else. Paying for an appraisal is stupid and would have been turned down by a vote of the district taxpayers. Come on folks let common sense prevail, Government can't own property, at least not in a Republic, it is not Democratic. Socialism keeps creeping up on us and that is really creepy.
wow hire somone to tell you what its worth seems like a realtor would have done that for free. stupid people control our schools where do they find these morons? and even worse noti wants them to give away at least $40,000 worth of land for $1 we are doomed as tax payers!
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The buildings need to be completely redone. It is only the land and gym that has the value. When you take the value of the land then start deducting the work needing done to get it up and running again the amount comes down to $1.00.  This has been sitting there with NO other offers for 10 years. The school district said what was in the best interest of the children, yet here you can see it is ALL about the money!
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And actually the community of Noti and Fern Ridge area has been working hard at it. There are many involved. So unless, you been working on it personally, you don't really know what Noti wants.
 @CntryGalBlues  @quasimodo Since you can only speak for yourself, it doesn't really matter too much what YOU want.  Its TAX PAYER money.
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In your voodoo economic theory, you have make all the assumptions and then tried to state them as ignorant fact in coming up with your $1.00 theory.Â
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I'll give $75,000 for the buildings.
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That makes my offer 75,000 times more real that your petty self serving offer of $1.00
 @quasimodo Getting an official appraisal is smart.Â
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And no, a realtor is not an appraiser.Â
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When was the last time you bought a institutional building from a "realtor"?
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Give away tax payer dollars?, No, those days are over.Â