Merced College board of trustees agreed to sell more than 100 acres of wetlands the college owns in Los Ba&#241;os since it hasn't found a way to use it for facility or academic purposes.</p><p>Trustees declared the 133-acre parcel surplus at their monthly meeting held Tuesday in Merced and adopted a resolution calling for its sale. The approval by trustees cleared the way for the college to proceed with the requirements to sell the property which is located south of Highway 152 and west of the San Luis Canal.</p><p>By law public entities such as school districts and state agencies have top priority at purchasing the property but if no offers are made then private citizens are allowed to bid for it.</p><p>"We've had it for quite sometime and haven't been able to develop it," Larry Johnson, Merced College's vice president of administrative services, said.</p><p>Johnson said he is unsure how long Merced College has owned the land but that it was gifted to the institutional sometime before 1993 when he began his tenure at the college.</p><p>Johnson said written offers will be made soon to various public agencies but would not elaborate on who the land's potential new owners could be.</p><p>Veronica Woodruff from the Grasslands Water District said that the California Department of Fish and Game had expressed interest in the property in the past. </p><p>Calls to the fish and game department were not immediately returned.</p><p>This is the second Los Ba&#241;os property that the college owns and is currently on the market for sale.</p><p>The old Los Ba&#241;os satellite campus on Mercey Springs Road was put up for sale last year when students and staff moved into a bigger facility on Highway 152 but has yet to find a new owner.</p><p>The Los Ba&#241;os Police Department recently submitted a letter of interest in the property.</p><p>Johnson said the surplus wetland is valued at around half a million dollars and mostly comprised of wetlands so it would be difficult to develop.</p><p>He said he is hopeful that a new owner would be found.</p><p><b>Naming opportunities</b></p><p>Trustees also discussed naming possibilities at Los Ba&#241;os to honor Larry and Georgeann Anderson, the couple who donated the property on which the campus was built on.</p><p>Trustee Jinet Troost suggested Tuesday that a road that wraps around the 120.1 acres that make up the Los Ba&#241;os campus should be named after its' benefactors. Dr. Brenda Latham, the campus' dean, said the board gave the "go ahead" to explore naming possibilities for the college roads. </p><p>"This is not the actual naming yet, just an okay on getting the process started," she said in an e-mail response.</p><p><i>Enterprise reporter Minerva Perez can be reached by phone at (209)388-6565 or by e-mail at mperez@losbanosenterprise.com</i>