Konstantin Vengerowsky/Clarendon Citizen - The Clarendon County Planning Commission building and adjacent lot at 412 N. Brooks St. in Manning are two of nine parcels the county hopes to sell to increase revenue for the upcoming year.
County to sell land
County officials are hoping that the divestiture of nine parcels of land will help ease the county’s extremely tight 2011-2012 budget.
“We trying to find all the revenue we can,” County Administrator Bill Houser told council members at the Aug. 8 council meeting. “We want to sell the property to augment the budget.”
Following a public hearing on the matter Monday night, council members gave second reading approval to an ordinance authorizing the sale of nine parcels of land.
The nine parcels include:
- the assessor’s building at the corner of Boyce and Mill streets. Houser told council members that the First Baptist Church has first right of refusal for that property.
- the Planning Commission building on North Brooks Street and an adjacent lot.
- the Development Board building on South Mill Street, a parking lot and small adjacent lot.
- three vacant lots at the corner of East Boyce and Barfield streets.
Houser told council members they would be able to accept or deny any bids offered.
Two of the properties are currently being used – the Planning Commission building and the Development Board office.
Those two offices along with several others will be moving into the old Bi-Lo complex on Sunset Drive once renovations to that building are complete.
“We hope to be in the new administration building by March 30,” Houser told the council members.
