NFCU offers $500k more than the appraised value so that they can provide hundreds and hundreds of well paying jobs and the extra boost to our local economy.

The 4H has the opportunity to relocate to a piece of property that allows more room and opportunity to grow. Also, they will have a large sum of money left over for additions or operating expenses.

However, some of you want to sit around and throw rocks and share conspiracy theories with each other. Thanks goodness everyone (outside of your circle anyways) sees how ignorant and naive your rants are and pays them no mind!

I love to see the people comment on an article that have not been keeping up with this story.

1. The property was valued at $3.1 million and NFCU offered $500,000 more than it was appraised. Sounds less like a “steal’ and more like a reasonable offer.

2. Correct me if I am wrong, but I am pretty sure that city sewer doesn’t stretch out that far in the county. Large businesses can’t develop property on septic service. Unless we all pay extra taxes for ECUA to add to their existing services, then I am pretty sure that NFCU will not be considering to develop the Bayer property for themselves.

3. Currently, 4H in this county operates solely on the interest from its current funds. The Bayer property is estimated at least $1.5 million less than the offer on the table. This will provide considerably more finances for which 4H can operate.

4. NFCU is a not-for-profit organization. Translation, extra money is distributed to employees=local economic boost.

5. LBC is currently on 240 acres with some 80+ acres deemed as wetlands. I am not sure if any of the Bayer property is also wetlands, but it seems obvious that more property would be available for 4H to use.

I don’t know about all of the other entities involved with the finances, but I sure hope that 4H gets the full value of what is rightfully theirs. This deal should not happen unless everyone wins. Twenty-three acres at the extension office is a win for everyone except 4H. The Bayer property sounds like a win for everyone involved, but still people hesitate to support?

I think this is a good proposal. NFCU has very good paying jobs for this area as well as excellent benefits for employees. I am not saying that their want to purchase the property is justified by those things, but 4H needs somewhere more rural that it can grow and really begin to blossom in this area. I was in 4H all through middle and high school but there wasn’t much in the Molino area to keep our interests really rooted to 4H. I think that this facility, if proven to be safe, would be wonderful for the 4H community. Since it is a turn key operation, there would not be immense amounts of work to be done to get another facility ready to use. The 250 acres would much more suitable for all the offices, gardeners, and kids to grow and honestly begin to serve the community better. The Stefani Rd property is not equivalent to what they have now, let alone what the Bayer property has to offer. I think that the woman who wants to limit the 4H group to Stefani Rd wants to have ultimate control over what the children do and who gets access to the property and that is not fair or right. Mr. Bell left the Langley Bell property to the 4H association in the good faith that they would utilize and enjoy the property to its fullest potential. I believe that the 4H center has served a wonderful purpose, but it is time to let Pensacola grow a little and allow the economy here to change and allow the youth of 4H to have a chance to serve the community.

When you go with the flow, caving into everything that comes down the pike, you
will soon discover that it has become a lifestyle.

Hold on to that wich is yours, honor the trust. When this beautiful place is gone, you will never get it back. Tell NFCU to go look at the Bayer property.

It will take a real idiot, after observing this, to leave anything to the public, in the future.

Here is a link to the Frequently Asked Questions about Florida 4-H. There you will find answers to how the Extension Office, IFAS and the University of Florida comes into play with the 4-H program.

http://florida4h.org/about/faq.shtml

Where are you getting this information? Do you think that every Navy Federal employee in Virginia is going to MOVE to Pensacola? One of the reasons Navy Federal wants to move the majority of their operations here is because there are SO MANY of these types of jobs in Virginia, that all pay great wages. It’s tough to recruit there!

Sure, you will have SOME people relocate, but the vast majority will find a similiar position in the Virginia area, and their life will go on.

Meanwhile, here in Pensacola, we will have more good paying jobs with excellent benefits available to the polulation.