MAYVILLE – The issue of selling the Chautauqua County Home will go before county lawmakers two weeks from today. That’s according to an article in today’s Jamestown Post-Journal, which says Legislature Chairman Jay Gould (R-Ashville) has scheduled a special meeting to take place on Thursday, Oct. 18 at 6:30 p.m. in the legislative chambers in Mayville. The sale of the county home will be the only item on the agenda for that meeting.
According to today’s article, lawmakers will act on selling the home to Altitude Health Services of Chicago. In July, lawmakers learned that Altitude Health was prepared to buy the county home for $16.5 million.
According to the same article in the Post-Journal, a recent poll shows the legislature is three votes shy of the 17 vote super-majority needed to sell the skill nursing facility. County Executive Greg Edwards has included the sale of the county home in his 2013 proposed budget, saying the revenue from the sale is the only way the county will be able to offset a $13 million dollar budget gap next year without resorting to a steep increase in property taxes.
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