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Gadsden County narrows Boys & Girls Club search; attorney authorized to ask City of Quincy about adjacent parcel
Summary
Commissioners authorized the county attorney to ask the City of Quincy to partition the parcel adjoining the Joe Farley Center as a potential Boys & Girls Club site and discussed several county-owned candidate properties, with Strong Road noted as an in-county priority.
The Gadsden County commission took a step in the multi-month effort to find a site for a Boys & Girls Club facility by authorizing the county attorney to request that the City of Quincy partition the parcel containing the Joe Farley recreation center and consider conveying the adjacent parcel to the county.
County staff presented several county-owned properties as possible sites: a roughly 7-acre site on Stewart Street (staff said about 2 acres may be developable), approximately 52 acres on Pat Thomas Parkway, a 25-acre parcel near Fantana Trail about 4 miles outside Quincy, and a 22-acre parcel on Strong Road near Crossroads Academy. Staff noted one potential parcel presented to the board (the Joe Farley parcel adjacent field) is not county-owned and…
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