53.10 Howe Enterprise July 27, 2015

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New building could be erected downtown soon auction winner is, but you can reject any and all bids." The particular issue is that when a particular person wants to buy the property and under the law the city cannot say that they can sell it to that person without it going to a full bid process. "It's a potentially risky thing if you've got one particular item in mind, there's no guarantee that's going to occur." said Tidwell.

A person has contacted the city to build a new downtown building in Howe In Tuesday's city council meeting, City Administrator Joe Shephard informed the council that a person has approached him about the sale of the space between City Hall and Abby's Restaurant that is owned by the city.

to meet our codes and our zoning rules. We can't only sell to someone who's going to put in a business that we want in."

said the building codes guarantee no more metal buildings or metal fascia.

As far as the bidding process goes, Council member Bill French asked if city attorney James Tidwell told the city could control what kind of the council that when the city sells material the building is made of. real estate, the general rule is that Shephard told the council that the "Point being is that we have an almost the city is looking for the most citizen is interested in constructing pretty downtown right now unless money unlike an individual trying a building on the property for somebody builds another big ugly to sell a house who has the option commercial use. metal building or multi-family to select who the buyer is. dwelling or something." said French. "The city can sell it by auction or "The cities are required by statute bid." Shephard told the council. Shephard responded that the city can to sell by either a public auction or "We cannot sell it with the rights to control the look of the new structure a sealed bidding which opens it up dictate what goes in there, but if because of the zoning ordinances that to the entire public." said Tidwell. they put a building in, they'll have are in place. Mayor Jeff Stanley also "You don't get to pick who the

Councilman Sam Haigis made the comment that one would assume that someone who may be interested in the process should be smart enough to put a bid in that would be successful. Tidwell recommended that the city should get a survey done first especially since the building is sitting next to City Hall. "You don't want to go down the road and find some issue with the way that you listed the property for sale." said Tidwell. "A lot of times those property lines don't fall exactly where they thought they fell just because the buildings have been there for a hundred years." The council authorized Shephard to receive sealed bids for the property.

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