Wondered in July how much Somervell County Hospital District sold property at 908 Embrey Lane to the TGR Nursing home for. 

Open Records Request

The total amount of money that TGR paid for the property was $6,534.00  Here is a copy of the check. 

Note that the current Somervell County Hospital District board signed the resolution for that amount

Minutes of the May 31, 2016 meeting indicate that "TGR Healthcare/Glen Rose Nursing and Rehab submitted the only bid with a price of $0.60 per foot. After some discussion, Ron Hankins made a motion to accept the bid, contingent on that value being equal or near the CAD value of the property. Dr Burroughs seconded the motion.

So what IS the CAD value of the property? For 2016, it is $31,980. That is a difference between the purchase price for TGR Holdings, which bought it for $6,534.00 of 25,446.00. Repeating that, over 25 THOUSAND dollars. 

I do question why there is such a tremendous drop in the value of the property between 2015 and 2016. For 2015, 2014, 2013 and 2012 the value was consistently 63,660. 00, but then, in 2016, changed to $31,980. I called the appraisal district to ask, first, if CAD value is 31,980. Yes, and second if there is any paper record that shows why this was devalued to such a large extent. Spoke with one of the appraisers who found no notes in the file, nor any contested protest before the ARB.I then spoke with Wes Rollen, who explained that anyone can come in and informally ask for a new appraisal, that it doesn't require a protest to the ARB, and that generally, property that is tax-exempt isn't necessarily thoroughly appraised each year (such as government owned land). In this case, someone from the hospital asked the appraisal district to do a new appraisal on the property in preparation for selling it.One can argue that being able to save laundry services would offset the very very low price of selling the land, but it doesn't explain why the board would accept this under the provision that the value being close to the CAD value of the property

Why the FOOL is Somervell County Hospital District selling land so cheaply when Glen Rose Medical Center is in severe financial straits and may go bankrupt?? And why, if Ron Hankins said that the sale was contingent on the price being close to what the CAD value was, would he have gone through with this (or the entire Somervell County Hospital District board, for that matter).