Sale
In 2005 the Properties Study Committee started the process of reviewing all council camp properties to determine the best usage of assets for the sustainability of the Scouting Program in the council's service area as part of the long term strategic planning process. A recommendation to sell the Camp Onway property was eventually forwarded to the Yankee Clipper Council executive board.
The sale was met with a large amount of opposition from Scouts, Scouters and staff members. Numerous arguments were presented to reject the sale. A petition was signed by over 1,000 Scouts, Scouters, and friends of Scouting. Many of the articles are still available at SaveCampOnway.com.
At a meeting on March 22, the Yankee Clipper Council (YCC) executive board voted 26-10 in favor of selling Camp Onway. The sale, originally set to take place in late August was delayed due to controversy surrounding the original deed from 1929. After a drawn-out legal debate as to whether the YCC had the right to sell the camp, it was decided that indeed they did. More than seven months after the initial vote, the YCC was contacted by the LDS Church saying that because of the declining property market they must lower the price of $2.8 million to $2.45 million. The YCC immediately had a vote to push the sale through.
On November 30, 2007, Camp Onway was sold to the LDS Church for $2.45 million dollars, which the YCC put into an endowment fund. The new owners have since changed the name to Zion's Camp.
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Famous quotes containing the word sale:
“People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“[T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to it’s power. Strange that a set of men who have made sale of their virtue to the minister should yet talk of retaining dignity!”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“I keep thinking that what I need
to do is buy my leg back.
Surely it is for sale somewhere,
poor broken tool, poor ornament.
It might be in a store somewhere beside a lady’s scarf.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)