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Sherburne County Board of Commissioners Sherburne County Fair Board November 13, 2007 Page 2 River Athletic Association is a defunct legal organization per the Secretary of State's Office when I did the research on the quiet title action. 1957 -- The Village of Elk River conveys the fairgrounds land to the Sherburne County Agricultural Society by quit claim deed. The deed states that the basis for the conveyance is: "premises shall be used for the purposes relating to the operation and conducting of a county fair, or any other purpose incidental to or consonant with the activity of an agricultural society." 1994 -- The Sherburne County Agricultural Society conveys the land to Sherburne County by quit claim deed. August 1996 -- Dave Loch and the undersigned began discussions with the Cox family on the donation of the lands and the establishment, inter alia, of the fairgrounds at the Becker site. 1997 -- Conservation agreement is entered into by the Cox family and the Minnesota Land Trust. The lands were split up into parcels. On Parcel C's conservation agreement, paragraph 7 provides: "The Protected Land shall be used for any of the following uses: farming, fairgrounds or wildlife habitat/native vegetation restoration....Buildings and other improvements reasonably necessary to serve the use permitted on the Protected Land (such as demonstration/exhibit buildings, restroom facilities, office/storage space, etc.) shall be allowed on the Protected Land." August 4, 2004 -- A copy of the Summons and Complaint for the Quiet Title action was conveyed by first class mail to Ms. Carole Iten, Sherburne County Fair Board Secretary, and Mr. Peter Beck, City Attorney for the City of Elk River. The notice of the action was also published in the Elk River Star News for a period of three weeks. 1 do have the 09.09.04 minutes from the Fair Board which state: "Deed to Land: The County Attorney's Office is in the process of cleaning up the deed and title to the fairgrounds property in Elk River. The Secretary was served with a Summons and Complaint in a Quiet Title matter. This is being done in order to have a clear title in the eventuality of a sale of the land." In a letter dated November 18, 2004, the County Attorney's Office served both the Secretary of the Fairgrounds and the City Attorney with a Notice of Motion and Motion for Default on the Quiet Title action. (Copies of the affidavits of service on the Fair Board and the City of Elk River