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Bid Title: 2026 Ground Lease - Fields B & C
Category: Request for Bids
Status: Open

Description:

2026

Request for Bids - Ground Lease

The City of Fort Scott is accepting sealed bids to lease Fields B & C, approximately 94 acres for farming purposes. The land is good bottomland and has occasionally flooded. The leaser shall assume all risk of crop loss. The property is offered for a twelve-month period only. No crops are to be planted that cannot be harvested prior to February 28th, 2027. The leaser must keep all weeds cut down to two (2) feet or less along all roadways. The winning bidder will be required to disc one time the other Field, A, approximate 85 acres that the City is applying bio-solids on when the City requests it is needed. 

The leaser must show proof of insurance for $1,000,000 liability with the City as additional insured. The City reserves the right to reject any and all bids. The City will not accept the bid on share cropping, only on a lump sum bid. Please submit a sealed bid to the City Clerk’s office before 10:00 a.m. March 12th, 2026, or mail envelope marked sealed bid to Attn: Lisa Lewis, City Clerk, 123 S. Main, Fort Scott, Kansas 66701.

See attached maps.

For questions contact: Alek Shelden at the Wastewater Treatment Plant at 620-223-0480.


Publication Date/Time:
2/12/2026 12:00 AM
Closing Date/Time:
3/12/2026 10:00 AM

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