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At Thursday's board meeting, members unanimously voted on a lease-to-own agreement with the Wood County Commissioners, who currently own the building and lease it to the health department for about $96,000 a year.
When the health district wanted a new building, it could not borrow the necessary money, so the county agreed to build the structure on county-owned land. The county acts like a bank, or the mortgage holder, and the district makes payments every year.
"The agreement clarifies all the issues," said Andrew Kalmar, county administrator, this morning. "When the health department finishes paying the bond payments, they'll own the building."
Bill Ault, director of administration for the health district, explained at the meeting that the district will continue paying the annual debt of the building until 2020.
"Once that's done, the building will be ours," he stated.