Crossville city council approved a
sales agreement to transfer part of the city's Dorton area landfill
property to the non-profit group that will operate the new shooting
sports park once it is built.
City attorney Will Ridley and county
officials have been working on the agreement for several weeks to try
and put the deal together to allow the project to move forward with
an attraction that proponents hope will attract tournaments and and
shooters from Middle and East Tennessee.
City council video discussion on shooting sports park property sale
Council,man Danny Wyatt moved that the
contract be approved with the provision that if the funding for the
project is not received by December 31, 2017 that the property will
revert back to the city. The contact already included a provision
that should the property stop being used as a shooting park that the
property would also revert back to the ownership of the city.
Wyatt's motion was supported by
councilwoman Pamala Harris. With no calls for any further
discussion, the motion was approved with four votes in favor.
Councilman J. H. Graham was absent from the meeting.
The city charter requires a 30 day
advertising period before the sale can become final. The total
acreage to be transferred is 146 of the approximately 218 acres
originally purchased by the city for use as a landfill. Some 37
acres was used for a landfill but was closed many years ago and
remains under the auspices of the state environmental department for
monitoring.
The shooting sports park has been under
discussion for almost 2 years with funding coming from the Tennessee
Wildlife Resources Agency using money comes from the federal excise
tax on ammunition.
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