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FAQs The legislation gives the district the power to own or rent property. Why is this necessary?
FAQs The legislation gives the district the power to own or rent property. Why is this necessary? | The legislation gives the district the power to own or rent property. Why is this necessary? | | Print | |
| Written by Corey Tisdale | |
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Although it is very unlikely that we will ever have to use this power, the legislature thought it necessary to include this in our bill. Here are some examples of why we may some day need this power: We have to hold all meetings publicly. If someone will not donate a meeting spot, such as a church or a business with a meeting room, we may need to rent a small place to have meetings so that everyone who wishes to attend may attend. This is unlikely, as community churches have generally been very helpful to crime prevention efforts, but we have to have a fallback plan to operate lawfully. If we ever switch from NOPD to private detail, we may need to rent storage space for any district property, such as the cell phone people will call to get an escort to their house, any gps or walkie-talkies, etc. As we keep records through the years that we will need to keep to be audited, we may need to rent a small storage space to keep boxes of paperwork. This will not be a major expense, and in fact we are not even budgeting to have to rent anything, but if worst comes to worst and we cannot find free space, we may have to rent it. We do not foresee any event that would cause us to buy property, and we suspect that "rent or purchase" is a result of boilerplate text used by legislative aides when preparing documents. |
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