Landowner offers stewardship of Elmore Hall

The landowner on whose property the Elmore polling station sits has offered to take ownership of the building to maintain it for public use. The 432 square foot hall was gifted to the county in 1981 and has been used as a polling place since that time.

“As you know, it’s been the polling place forever…the Policky ranch has been maintaining it,” Tess Policky told the county commissioners last week.

According to Policky, the family has already been taking care of trash, repainting and reporting abandoned vehicles, among other things.

“We are just looking to take ownership of it and...