Continuing a push to sell village land in order to gain revenue, Fredonia Trustee LeeAnn Lazarony said it appears nothing legally stands in the way of a sale of property on Glasgow Road.

Lazarony said at a Board of Trustees workshop this week she has “done a lot of investigative work. The last call I had today is with the DEC. … They explained to me we’d have to get an official jurisdictional determination, a certificate they’d give the village on what exactly is considered wetland.”

She said the purchaser of the property, not the village, would have to do a State Environmental Quality Review.

Lazarony continued that the state’s parks department has nothing to do with the property, as it is not a New York state park. “No one could tell me where it was listed that it was ever a park, like an official park. … I don’t know if it was ever officially a park.”

She added, “There may be potentially conversations we want to have with the state parks department because they are buying property to make state land. Whether they would want to engage with us about the property, that remains to be seen.”

Lazarony’s contact at the DEC “said we should probably have more conversations once you do the footwork to determine if there is anything in your deed or your charter that would not allow you to sell the property. I have not found that yet.”

She cracked, “I am sure there is somebody out there who used to be here who is going to call me up, and tell me I’m wrong.” An effort last year to sell the Glasgow Road property faltered under opposition from Michelle Twichell, who lost her re-election race. Former Village Attorney Samuel Drayo has also publicly opposed the sale of the property.

“There’s surely nothing in the deed,” said Trustee Jon Espersen. “There’s nothing in the title search, because we have that. Nothing’s happened to it since that date, it’s not changed hands.”

Espersen wondered if it might not have to be advertised, if the state wanted the land.

Mayor Michael Ferguson speculated that a sale to the state might upset the Cassadaga Lake Association, which has shown interest in a purchase.

Lazarony downplayed that as it would be state land, “but we’re getting a little ahead of ourselves. I just did some preliminary footwork to find out the answers to questions.”

Lazarony said she wanted to ask Melanie Beardsley of village attorneys Webster Szanyi to handle preliminary work on any sale. Espersen replied, “I would almost recommend using a local attorney to do a land sale, if it got to that point.”

Lazarony said she wanted to make sure nothing is preventing the village from selling the property — “and if there is, how do we jump that obstacle.”