On Monday a more than year wait will be over and AMVETS Post 320 and the Roanoke Rapids Graded School District will celebrate a land transfer between the two.

The land transfer is significant because it allows Boy Scout Troop 146 to keep its hut located on the 900 block of Jefferson Street.

Controversy over contamination of the site where the hut is built and around the parking lot of Roanoke Rapids High School last summer forced the school system to serve the scouts an eviction notice.

The land transfer, which deeds the land the Boy Scout hut is on to the post, resolves that issue, school Superintendent Dennis Sawyer said Tuesday.

The superintendent said cost of the transaction is a portion of the surveying cost of the land. “We just wanted to be good stewards. The Boy Scouts have used it for an extended period of time.”

Sawyer said he is glad this part is over. “The process took so long,” he said. “We’re excited. The next move will be to celebrate this.”

The brief ceremony will be at the AMVETS building on Eighth Street behind the high school at 5:30 p.m.

The hut, which sits on three quarters of an acre of land, was built in 1938.

Meanwhile, Sawyer said, the school system continues to work on the contamination issue at the former Patterson mill site. “We’d like to secure Brownfield funds to do the work over there because that land is an asset to the district and the city.”