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Nampa council advances process to decide future of Ford Idaho Center, rejects formal appraisals
Summary
After weeks of debate, the Nampa City Council voted to stop seeking formal appraisals and to advance a public hearing process to consider whether to sell, convey to the College of Western Idaho or retain the Ford Idaho Center; council also debated but did not set a final minimum sale price.
Council members moved on Sept. 15 to advance a public process to decide the future of the city-owned Ford Idaho Center, voting to stop soliciting formal outside appraisals and to open a public hearing process that could result in sale, conveyance to a governmental entity or retention. The council voted that staff should cease seeking formalized appraisals for the property; the motion passed 5–1.
City Attorney Preston Rutter described the statutory process the city must follow to sell public property and said the council must first declare whether the property is underutilized or not used for public purposes before proceeding to the next step. Rutter said the package before council included a draft resolution making those threshold findings and a proposed timetable to bring a final public…
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