From the News-Gazette today about concerns about the County Board terms being some sort of poison pill to detract would be buyers. It points out that the brokerage firm has an interest in selling it and wouldn't allow terms that prevented them from getting paid too, but probably most telling, were the opinions of passionate proponents of selling the home:
Nursing home sale terms
Some are suggesting that the terms of sale for the Champaign County Nursing Home were written by county board members and that they are deliberately so demanding as to make a sale difficult to consummate. Nope.
"We reviewed a number of (requests for proposals) that Marcus & Millichap (the broker for the sale) provided in working with other county homes across the country," said former County Administrator Rick Snider, who helped write the RFP last fall. "One of the things I think you'll find that's in common with others that are government operated is that they tend to be unionized. So the provisions in there reflect that."
He said the terms were written "to provide some security for people" and also to satisfy the county's collective bargaining agreement with AFSCME that "requires that any successor organization must take the contract."
He said the broker had "reviewed those with us and he did not see anything in there that would preclude interest from a potential buyer."
Jim Goss, a Republican board member from Mahomet who has been one of the most outspoken supporters of selling the nursing home, said most of the language in the RFP is "boilerplate."
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