Jeff Bergosh Blog: April is Going to Be a Huge Month for the BCC, NFCU, and OLF 8!

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Friday, March 1, 2019

April is Going to Be a Huge Month for the BCC, NFCU, and OLF 8!

April will be a big month for the efforts in the Beulah community of District 1--- centered around OLF 8.

On April 1st, a ribbon cutting ceremony with state, local, and national dignitaries will take place at the field.

Then, at the first BCC meeting on April 4th, several OLF 8 related items will garner some serious attention.

It is my prediction that at this meeting, the BCC and NFCU will come to terms on a purchase contract outlining the terms for 84 acres of OLF 8 to be sold to the credit union, with the county keeping the wetlands directly adjacent on the west of the NFCU campus in conservation.

I believe at the same meeting, a document very close to this working draft LOI will be approved by the board and we will start the ball rolling toward master planning the remaining 540 acres on the site according to the board's previous direction on this. (The board voted 5-0 on a compromise document to guide the master-planning of the OLF 8 field. This language, in it's entirety, is contained within this draft LOI that I predict will be approved in April by the board.)

Another very important document that I predict will be approved in April will be the agreement memorializing NFCU's commitment to pay for the master plan, subject to reasonable stipulations and conditions that must be mutually agreeable to both NFCU and the BCC. Staff has been working and meeting with NFCU on this-and I'm told this effort is very near completion...

This is HUGE ----because having NFCU pay for the master plan allows the BCC to shift the $1.3 Million in Restore Act funds (that had been earmarked for master planning OLF 8) over to the ST Engineering project at Pensacola's Airport.

So yes, April will be a big, big month for the BCC and for NFCU.

And we will finally get the ball rolling on a master plan for that property that takes ALL stakeholders' interests into account.