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Community Development Services, Department of Transportation and Department of Planning and Building, recommending the Board:
1) Approve and authorize the Chair to sign the Purchase and Sale Agreement and Joint Escrow Instructions (Agreement), for Scariot/DeWolf parcel, Assessor's Parcel Number 109-230-12 (Parcel) totaling 51.12 acres in Cameron Park for rare plant habitat conservation. Purchase price to be $1,670,000, plus closing and appraisal costs;
2) Approve and authorize the Rare Plant Endowment Fund to temporarily loan the Ecological Preserve Fee Fund $20,000 for cash flow purposes to make the land purchase; and
3) Approve and authorize the chair to sign a budget transfer amending the budget for Fiscal Year 2018/19 to allow for the Fixed Asset Land purchase.
FUNDING: Ecological Preserve Special Revenue Fund. (No Federal Funds)
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DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDATION
Community Development Services, Department of Transportation (Transportation) and Department of Planning and Building, recommending the Board approve and authorize Chair to sign the Purchase and Sale Agreement and Joint Escrow Instructions (Agreement), for Scariot/DeWolf parcel, Assessor’s Parcel Number 109-230-12 (Parcel), totaling 51.12 acres in Cameron Park for rare plant habitat conservation. Purchase price to be $1,670,000, plus closing and appraisal costs.
DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
The Scariot Family Limited Partnership/DeWolf Family Investment Limited Partnerships jointly own the Parcel located in Cameron Park. The property is north of Durock Road and south of Highway 50 and is located within the designated Recovery Area for the Pine Hill Preserve, which was established in 2001 to protect eight rare plant species and their gabbro soils habitat in western El Dorado County. The Recovery Area includes lands identified by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) in the Recovery Plan for Gabbro Soil Plants in the Central Sierra Nevada Foothills. A primary goal of the Recovery Plan is the ...
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