alright so there were a lot of interesting little things brought up in last nights borough assembly meeting including the lease extension given to the tsalteshi trail group ( i probably butchered the spelling of that) and some other basic business but the next main event caught me off guard.

-the selling of land to soldotna for a cemetary
this i thought was a sure thing until its facts were presented in a little more light by assemblyman pual fischer. it seems the land was assessed about 5 years ago for around $145000 and then we were looking to sell it to soltown for a sweet $55000 and while loosing a nice chunk of profit we were doing the cool thing and helping our community out. oh contrare my friend... it turns out that lands current value (according to assemblyman fischer) is upwards of $400+K and the offer the soldotna city council is making for it??????? you guessed it... $55000. what? thats a sucky deal. what idiot thought this was a fair deal? assemblyman knopp pipes in with "I think we should ask fair market value"....NO KIDDING! thats a great idea, boy is he earning it. well i was glad to see this one is headed to public discussion.
in conclusion - considering the approach soldotna city council (according to assemblyman fischeer) is taking toward this , which is one of "give us the land" and "Now", I think we should stick to our guns and hold out for the fair market value of the property or at least a reasonable land swap of some sort.