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Kuna council authorizes mayor to submit sealed bid for former Fourth Street gym
Summary
The Kuna City Council authorized the mayor to submit a sealed bid for 571 West 4th Street (the former Fourth Street gym) after staff warned open-meeting rules limit discussing bids publicly; staff said the assessed minimum bid is roughly $1.7 million and bids are due by 4 p.m. the next day.
Kuna City Council on Monday authorized the mayor to submit a sealed bid for the former Fourth Street gym at 571 West 4th Street, agreeing to let city staff set a confidential bid amount so the city’s offer would not be disclosed before the seller opened bids.
City Attorney Mark Bybee told the council that state public-record and open-meeting laws complicate discussion of sealed bids when the underlying property is owned by another public entity. "There’s a conundrum here: the bid still needs to be sealed, but if the council sets the amount everybody will know what the bid is," Bybee said, urging the council to…
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