4 September 2008
Girl Scouts Lose Their House
Posted by admin under: Community Partners .
As reported by the commercial-news.com site, the Green Meadows Girl Scouts, now reorganized into the Girl Scouts of Central Illinois, have lost control of a house they have used since 1958. The city of Hoopeston noted that the Girl Scouts had not recorded an ownership of the building and had not kept up repairs as required by the city.
The Green Meadows Girl Scout organization was apprised of the recording fact in a letter from Manion. As a result, the Girl Scout house became the property of the city, which will use it once again for the art show, the Hoopeston Youth Council activities and other events during the year.
It’s sounds almost congenial the way the story discusses how the city has taken away the house. It doesn’t seem like it was being used exclusively for Girl Scouts so I’m not sure why this move was necessary.
I’ve got a call in to Jamie Osborne, the council’s regional operating officer for the Springfield/Decatur area, to find out if this was a mutually negotiated outcome or if the city just surprised the council. My wife has been trying to figure out a way to get a Girl Scout house in the San Fernando Valley where we live. It’s not easy to do. It doesn’t seem likely that it would be something a council would willingly give up.
No update: Hmph. They haven’t called me back. Maybe I can understand why the city said they weren’t following up on their paperwork.
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