Century 2 seeks recorded assurances on donated funds and county land for new Bird City clinic

Century 2 organizers told the Cheyenne County Board of Commissioners they have raised substantial private donations toward a new clinic in Bird City and want legal assurances about what happens to donated improvements if the facility were ever to cease operating as a clinic. The proposal would place a new clinic on land now owned by the county through Cheyenne County Hospital.

The group said an individual had pledged $100,000 and other fundraising has followed. Century 2 representatives said they expect to furnish and maintain the new clinic and asked the commissioners to document, in deed language or a recorded reservation, that donated improvements or proceeds from any sale of the old clinic be returned to Century 2 if the building stops being used as a clinic.

County staff confirmed the parcel and the current clinic site are county property and advised that the matter can be handled by recording the desired reservations or agreements in county records. Commissioners and Century 2 discussed practical questions that could affect a future reversion — how to define “no longer used as a medical clinic,” how to treat later improvements or additions, and whether Century 2 would be involved in improvements beyond the donated work. County staff said they will review the legal steps needed to memorialize any agreement and bring recommendations back to the board.

Commissioners signaled general support for proceeding with the project while noting that formal motions were not required at the meeting; staff said they will coordinate the deed and agreement language and present necessary documents to the board at a later date. No binding change in ownership or sale of the old clinic occurred at the meeting; speakers said that if the new clinic is not built the county would not sell the old facility.