Committee holds agricultural lease resolution amid concerns about six-year term and exit provisions
The committee held Resolution 22,013, which would award a six-year agricultural lease and term-and-supply contract to T. Bruce Mershon for county park land, after legislators voiced concerns about the lease duration and how the county could exit the agreement if future development were needed.
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The Land Use Committee considered Resolution 22,013, recommending a six-year term-and-supply agricultural lease (RFP 25-020) to T. Bruce Mershon of Buckner, Missouri for farming county park land (47 acres at the Little Blue Trace McKeown property; 136 acres of hay at Monkey Mountain). Tina Spalo, Parks Plus Rec Department, said 26 notifications were sent and only one response was received; annual lease payments were stated as $3,850 for Little Blue Trace McKeown and $6,875 for Monkey Mountain.
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