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Tybee Island, Georgia
March 27, 1990
Mayor Charles J. Hosti opened the special called council
meeting. Present were Councilmen Jeff Dukes, Pat Locklear, Jimmy Brown
and Bill Walsh. Absent were Jack Youmans and Paul Jackson. Members of
the Citizens School Committee present: George McDonald, Rose Thompson,
Bob Dyer and Gary Conleay.
Jeff Dukes moved that the meeting be closed for the purpose
of discussing real estate purchase. Bill Walsh, seconded. The vote
was unanimous.
Councilman Dukes then explained that the Citizen - Committee
which he chairs has explored ways and means of acquiring the schoolhouse
complex and grounds of the former public elementary school. He stated
that the committee had met over lunch with Dr. Fay, the Board President,
and Ann Crowder, member, and that the letter and resolution being
submitted to Council for approval were based in part upon suggestions
by these two Board members.
Two appraisals, one commissioned by the Board and one by the
Committee declared the land to be market- valued at around $500,000.00,
with the value of the aging buildings negligible, according to Dukes's
statement to Council.
Councilman Dukes stated that the City Attorney had that morning
examined the letter and resolution and had found no basis for objecting to
the wording.
Councilman Dukes then read aloud the documents and moved that
they be approved. Councilman Locklear seconded.
In the efsuing discussion Councilman Brown asked whether the
committee had considered including a reversion clause, i.e., a promise to
return the property if and when the Board might want to reestablish a
school. Councilman Dukes responded that such a clause was in the first
draft but was deleted when it appeared that the Board was likely to
interpret this as a veiled effort to pressure them to reopen the school,
and therefore be counterproductive.
Councilman Locklear questioned the use of the term "schoolhouse,"
as opposed to "school complex ", and was told that the term was used so as
to be consistent with cited statute.
Councilman Walsh asked what Port Wentworth had paid for the
school which it bought, and was told the figure was about $51,000.00
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which was the appraised value.
The motion was then passed unanimously.
Councilman Dukes and Mayor Hosti then commended the Citizen
Committee and thanked them on behalf of the city.
On motion the meeting was then adjourned at 7:45 P.M.
Mayor Charles J. Hosti
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R E S O L U T I 0 N
WHEREAS, the City of Tybee Island, Georgia did, in 1954, convey a
parcel of land to the Savannah - Chatham County Board of Public Education for the
pur;:ose of building and operating an elementary school upon said land at Tybee
Island; and
WHEREAS, this transfer of land to the Board was for the payment of
510 to Tybee Island and "the benefit flowing [to the city] by the creation of
a new school building upon said lands "; and
WHEREAS, the Board did operate such school until 1988 to the benefit
of the citizens of the City and the surrounding community; and
WHEREAS, the Board by closing the school in 1988 did abrogate the
terms of the 1954 agreement; and
WHEREAS, the Board has declared by various means its intention not
to further use the buildings and grounds as a part of the educational system;
and
WHEREAS, Georgia law specifically empowers such county Boards of
Education to convey to a municipality any such schools lying within the boundaries
of such municipality when in the determination of the Board such school premises
are found to be "unnecessary or inconvenient "; and
WHEREAS, the City of Tybee Island is in dire need of additional space
for discharging its responsibilities to the citizens of Tybee Island and to the
visitors who make the City a major resort and recreational area with demands
for services exceeding a small city's financial capabilities;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, AND IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED, that the
City of Tybee Island, Georgia does request the Savannah - Chatham County Board
of Public Education to sell to the City of Tybee Island the buildings and grounds
of the former Tybee Island Elementary School in a non - competitive bid transaction
for the sum of Fifty Thousand Doilars ($50,000.00).
THIS 27th. DAY OF March , 1990.
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