April 3, 2025
By: Dwayne Page
The county owned Pine Creek Saddle Club property may soon be up for sale.
During Monday night’s regular monthly meeting, the county commission voted to approve a recommendation from the Revenue Research Committee to sell the Pine Creek Saddle Club property on Four Seasons Road at a public auction.
“We could get an auctioneer and set a buyer’s premium so that his fee would be paid by the buyer and set a minimum reserve price of $112,750 which is roughly $25,000 an acre. It’s a very desirable piece of property and we have already had five or six people express an interest in it,” said Committee Chairman Larry Green.
By selling certain unused county owned properties like Pine Creek Saddle Club, Green said the county could take revenue from the sales and apply it to other county needs.
Meanwhile the county commission, based on a recommendation of the public works committee, voted to rename the history room, arcade room, and art room at the county complex to give them a more distinguishable identity.
The history room is to be renamed “The Tennessee Room”, the arcade room will be given the name “The DeKalb Room” and the art room is to be called “The Classroom”.
Since the county complex was opened in 2012 the rooms had names for their intended purposes. Arcade games were originally placed in the arcade room for youth to gather and enjoy but over time the arcade games were removed. Although the history room was meant to have been used to display county historical artifacts it was never developed for that purpose. Both rooms remain vacant but are often used by senior citizens and other groups. The art room is located near the main auditorium of the complex and its purpose is also primarily for the public to meet or gather.