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Walton Co. School Board Meeting 2/19 at SWHS

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and a much better deal for tax payers than what you mentioned about the county having to pay "fair market value"...FYI...purchasing land in 2007 at a premium price in south walton shows a huge lack of planning foresight for about 3 decades...so if you want votes vow to do better and stay ahead of the game...
 
Busta Hustle said:
and a much better deal for tax payers than what you mentioned about the county having to pay "fair market value"...FYI...purchasing land in 2007 at a premium price in south walton shows a huge lack of planning foresight for about 3 decades...so if you want votes vow to do better and stay ahead of the game...
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I guess I have a total lack of understanding of premium prices. I thought this was a bad deal when the property was land locked with no access guaranteed. But now that they have gotten the easement, I am not convinced that it is a bad deal. MAybe SJ or someone in the market will jump in here. I am told that most if not all of this land would be developable if that is even a word.
 
Butler, Bay, Seaside, Montessori, South Walton High...all in south side since? What seems to be missing? And no government should not buy land they need for schools of the future they should negotiate with developers who ask to build 10,100,1000 houses in the area as they did with Bonezzi in Mossy Head. Take Freeport for instance. Hammock Bay, J. Odom has provided acerage for the city park. Do you know if a school was provided for? Owls Head? Plantations of Freeport? Emerald Glenn?
Windswept? 3 or 4 other approved D.O's off Black Creek? 10's of thousands of approved houses...fore fathers might be taking it a bit to far back, but just maybe as recently as 2000 someone might have looked at what was happening at the building dept. and said gee cletus this place is changing! Waiting until after the biggest land boom in history and then deciding it is time to buy...
 
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Busta Hustle said:
And no government should not buy land they need for schools of the future they should negotiate with developers who ask to build 10,100,1000 houses in the area as they did with Bonezzi in Mossy Head. Take Freeport for instance. Hammock Bay, J. Odom has provided acerage for the city park.
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We will just have to disagree on this point. I do not believe that a single developer should have to give up part of his assets to be able to move forward. The school benefits all of society, then all of society should pay for it.

Odom did not give the land for the park, it was part of a swap for water taps. And the BCC then agreed to fund the $5 million in park improvements, this project went out for bids, and guess whose company won the bid?
 
We did not need a school then.
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Yes we did. All SOWAL students were sent to Freeport after Bay Elementary. The only reason they built Butler is because Bay needed so many things to bring it up to code that it was cheaper to build a new school. And had the parents here not raised so much ***L about Freeport getting ANOTHER high school before SOWAL got its first we wouldnt have gotten that. Funny that enrollment at SWHS was alot more than FHS on the first day. Any one here remember when the bridge was closed for several months and it was nearly impossible for the kids here to get to school in Freeport? Bus rides starting at about 5am? Kids not getting home until 6 pm? Yes it was inevitable and they should have been thinking about it long before 1995. And although I loved the "quaintness" of my kids starting school at Bay, it was kinda sad to not have wiring to accommodate the technology that was available at the time. To have the middle school age kids in the one room portables outside with them having to run in the rain to go to the restroom inside the main building. I can recall having to bring gallons of drinking water because of the antiquated well. While having your school on the historic register, circa 1938, is awesome ...having to deal with the problems of that scenario was a nightmare.
 
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