PORT TOWNSEND — A Fall City attorney and his wife who own a house on Morgan Hill have offered $700,000 for the Boy Scout House and the acre it sits on.
If accepted, the proposal would give the Friends of the Scout House breathing space to save the property.
“Everybody asked me to deal with Vern (new owner Vern Garrison) on trying to work the situation out, including giving the Friends of the Scout House the option to buy it,” Brad Johnson said in a phone interview Saturday.
“Yesterday I decided to pre-empt this and put an offer on the table.”
Johnson, who lives east of Seattle but has a second home in Port Townsend across the street from the Scout House, said he and his wife made the offer to Garrison to give the Scouting group a year to raise money to purchase the property.
If Garrison accepts, the Friends will have until April 30, 2005, to buy the property at the price the couple paid plus any costs, Johnson states in a letter he wrote to the Port Townsend City Council and city manager Saturday outlining his plans.
“I think this is win-win situation for everybody,” Johnson said.
“It gets Vern out of a difficult situation, and it gets the friends of the Scout House exactly what they want — another option to acquire the property.”
Garrison, a local builder, has until noon Tuesday to accept or reject the offer, Johnson said.
