Both districts would like to add the 140-acre Mooseheart parcel for various projects, possibly including a sports complex for the park district. The boards met in separate sessions Tuesday.

If talks do not work, the districts reserved the right to employ eminent domain, which spurred school board member Jeff Glaser to cast the only vote against the negotiations from either board before tendering his resignation.

“I will not have my name associated with stealing someone’s property,” Glaser said as he walked out of the meeting.
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But he said the district would like to have a building referendum on the spring ballot and acquiring the land was a factor in that question. Eminent domain, he said, would be pursued only as a last resort. In a telephone interview,
Mooseheart representatives reiterated Tuesday the land was not for sale.
“We would oppose (the use of eminent domain) vigorously,” Mooseheart Chief Operation Officer Leonard Solfa said. “We’re not interested in selling to Batavia or anyone else at this time.”
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Calling the possible use of eminent domain by the Batavia school district “theft,”