By Tony McVeigh
Frankfort, KY – Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear is selling surplus state property again. This time it's a vacant lot in Frankfort. Since taking office in 2007, Gov. Beshear says his administration has generated nearly $7.5 million through surplus real estate sales. Included in that figure is nearly $79,000 Beshear says the state got for a vacant, two-acre industrial lot in Frankfort.
"We're not using it, and we don't need it. So we sold it recently to someone who did need it - the Franklin County Fiscal Court. And we sold it at its appraised value of $78,750."
Franklin County Judge Ted Collins says the land will be used as a staging area for the county's new courthouse project. Gov. Beshear used the sale as an example of the millions of dollars the administration has saved taxpayers by renegotiating leases and contracts, and unloading surplus real estate, airplanes and state vehicles.