There’s friction in Mills County over land the East Mills Community School District wants for a new bus barn and the property owner who wants to protect the family’s farming legacy.
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School district’s eminent domain consideration worries family farm owners
The East Mills school board meeting Wednesday night drew a large crowd as the board passed a resolution to seek an appraisal of the land. The move also opens up the potential of using eminent domain to acquire five acres of the Jeff Zanders family farm for a new bus barn.
“We do not want to open that door to you guys. To never be able to get sleep at night knowing that when the school outgrows itself, which is already is, what are we going to wake up to tomorrow?” Dillon Zanders said…