CITY GIVING AWAY LAND: PART 2

As many of you know I have made it a mission to expose the fallacies of the Mayor and his way of doing business in Louisville that costs us all. One of those was an article I did here: Louisville News and Politics: City giving away land?.

Additionally further research reveals much more than we realized. In October at the Metro Council meeting lo and behold the City agreed to give up approximately 116 acres to MSD for FREE! Now they will say most is unusable land and very well may be but it does bring up some very interesting questions.

The Jefferson County PVA office has those 28 parcels on the tax rolls at approx. $1 Million.

With a budget shortfall, why would we give away $1 million dollars in land for no money? Taxable land at that?

Details:R-160-09-08 - A RESOLUTION DETERMINING THAT IT IS IN METRO GOVERNMENT’S BEST INTEREST TO TRANSFER TWENTY-EIGHT (28) PARCELS OF REAL PROPERTY LOCATED THROUGHOUT METRO AND SET OUT IN EXHIBIT A ATTACHED HERETO TO LOUISVILLE AND JEFFERSON COUNTY METROPOLITAN SEWER DISTRICT (“MSD”) AND AUTHORIZING THAT TRANSFER. - Source: Metro Council Meeting, Oct. 9, 2008 - http://agendas.louisvilleky.gov/SIREPub/agdocs.aspx?doctype=agenda&itemid=12258

Interesting to note that the land went to MSD as we all know is a major problem waiting to happen.

Think of it this way.

No offering of this land to the public.

No competitive bidding.

No notice to the public.

Just a mayoral edict and giveaway. For FREE!

And it was given away to another agency that will not pay any taxes on it, further compounding this blatant lack of fiscal responsibility.

Is it allowable for the Mayor to GIVE AWAY our tax assets for free?

Additionally, two parcels side by side were equal to 30 acres in the 40220 area so during the Bomb storage arguments we were told there were no other options. This particular property even has a road to it and appears to be surrounded by some sort of a rock quarry.

Would a 30 acre area be a better option than on top of a major water supply in close proximity to a YMCA?

I would think so.

With property valued by the PVA at $1 million, property that would be a better fit for a bomb storage facility that would directly affect noting if the worst happened, and property that essentially the Mayor feels he can hide or move at his whim, we must start looking at the big picture.

We need transparency and we need it now.

What other deals have been slid through we do not know about?

Stay tuned there is more to come.