Since the election commission closed the Cherry Hill precinct some members of the county commission have expressed an interest in selling the building.
The community apparently rarely uses it anymore and the building needs repairs. Although the county owns it, federal funds were used to build it some forty years ago and county attorney Hilton Conger wants to make sure there are no strings attached before the county takes any action to sell it.
“I would recommend that we get a definitive answer. It was built with federal money. My understanding is that it came with no strings attached but I would just like to have some definitive answer from Congress or whoever has to tell us. If there is still something out there (stipulations) that Congressman Diane Black can shed some light on I would respectfully ask the commission to wait on making a decision about selling the building until we have something that says we can do that,” said Conger during Monday night’s county commission meeting.
County Mayor Tim Stribling said he has been in contact with a representative of Congressman Black’s Office about this issue. “I talked again Friday with Mike Detwiler, field representative for Diane Black. He said he is checking with Washington. I don’t see any reason why we can’t (sell the building). It belongs to the county but I had rather get a clarification,” he said.
Stribling said he hopes to have an answer from Congressman Black’s Office by next month’s county commission meeting.
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