{"id":1302729,"date":"2019-01-22T22:02:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T05:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/?p=444263"},"modified":"2019-01-22T22:02:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T05:02:54","slug":"avon-barn-decision-stalled-special-election-unlikely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/avon-barn-decision-stalled-special-election-unlikely\/","title":{"rendered":"Avon barn decision stalled; special election unlikely"},"content":{"rendered":"

AVON \u2014 The Town Council stalled on sealing the Hahnewald barn\u2019s fate on Tuesday, deciding instead to continue the discussion during its Feb. 12 meeting.<\/p>\n

The 110-year-old barn is likely to be demolished in June if another plan to save the structure isn\u2019t put into place, and with movers needing a March notification on whether or not they will be tasked with relocating the structure, time is running thin.<\/p>\n

A three-phased approach to move the barn to Avon\u2019s former Town Hall site came highly recommended by the town\u2019s planning commission<\/a>, with a $6.2 to $6.7 total cost estimate (demolition of former Town Hall included) on that plan estimated. But with the first phase off that plan coming in at $1.5 million, the council appears divided on whether or not to embark down that path.<\/p>\n

FAILED MOTIONS<\/h2>\n

While an ultimate solution for the more than 100-year-old structure\u2019s fate is still unclear, one thing made apparent at Tuesday\u2019s nearly three-hour long discussion was a special election to seek voter input before the movers\u2019 March deadline is highly unlikely. The effort to seek a special election, discussed in late 2018, would have needed to be initiated on at Tuesday\u2019s meeting, or in a special meeting before the end of January.<\/p>\n

No motion was made to seek a special election, but motions were made to spend nothing more, and to spend a maximum of $50,000 more on the barn, and both failed.<\/p>\n

In motioning to continue the discussion until the Feb. 12 meeting, council member Tamra Nottingham Underwood said she wanted staff to provide council with more information on what money has already been budgeted for the Nottingham Park area known as Tract G, and what expertise the town staff has with respect to grant writing. The motion passed 5-2, with council members Jake Wolf and Chico Thuon voting against the motion.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think we need to get more of the details of these funding mechanisms, and these numbers \u2013 which are scary, and I agree \u2013 these numbers will, I think, become manageable,\u201d Underwood said. \u201cAnd my hope is that we can begin to understand that we can take this opportunity and run with it in a fiscally responsible manner.\u201d<\/p>\n

RAZING VS. FUNDRAISING<\/h2>\n

More than 30 people attended the discussion, and many of them spoke on the record about the barn.<\/p>\n

While two or three comments were in favor of using taxpayer money to save the barn, at least 10 were not in support of the idea. Ten more letters written to the town from people not in support of spending taxpayer money on the barn were read into the record at Tuesday\u2019s meeting.<\/p>\n

After hearing the comments, Mayor Sarah Smith Hymes said it was clear that there is no appetite among taxpayers to use public funds on the plan to move the barn to the former town hall site.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I do think that there is support for saving the barn,\u201d Hymes said. \u201cTearing the barn down and saving the wood is not saving the barn, so I do not support that \u2026 what I support is hiring a consultant, a professional \u2026 to give us a good idea of how much money we can realistically raise to save the barn, in whatever iteration. And I think that we can do that in the short term and I don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to be that expensive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hymes was also honest in her assessment of what she thought the outcome of a special election on the matter would be.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do not support sending this to the ballot, because it won\u2019t pass,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t think we should send it to a ballot to waste our staff time and money on a ballot initiative that would fail.\u201d<\/p>\n

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AVON \u2014 The Town Council stalled on sealing the Hahnewald barn\u2019s fate on Tuesday, deciding instead to continue the discussion during its Feb. 12 meeting. The 110-year-old barn is likely to be demolished in June if another plan to save the structure isn\u2019t put into place, and with movers needing a March notification on whether […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1302729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 23:51:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1302729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1302729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1302729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1302729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}