Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

No One Attends Meeting

A public meeting concerning annexing the Gurdon Primary School into the city limits lacked only one thing  the public.

The meeting was held Monday, Sept. 13, prior to the regular meeting of the Gurdon City Council.

The purpose was to allow citizens to voice their opinion on the issue, before the council begins the process of bringing the facility into the city limits.

With no members of the public on hand, Gurdon Mayor Rick Smith read a legal description of the property and informed the council the owner of the property, in this case the Gurdon School District, had been notified by certified mail.

The next step will be to propose an ordinance to annex the property at the Oct. 11 council meeting.

This annexation can be done by ordinance as the property in question is surrounded on all sides by the city limits.

No one is quite sure why the primary school wasn't annexed into the city limits before this, or how it was overlooked for so many years.

Once GPS is brought into the city limits, Gurdon will have annexed property in all three methods allowed by law.

Earlier this year the area with the city's cemetery, Rose Hedge Cemetery, was annexed through the petition method.

Residents in the region petitioned the city to be annexed.

On Aug. 31, citizens voted to annex the property along Highway 67 including the two schools into the city limits.

The only other way property can be annexed is by ordinance, and this will be done for GPS.