Someone may break out in a chorus of Auld Lang Syne Thursday as the Jefferson County Commission is expected to ratify Tuesday’s action of the Hallmark Farm Cooperative District Board to dissolve.

Commissioner Joe Knight, a member of the cooperative, presented as new business at the commission’s committee meeting Tuesday a resolution to ratify the cooperative board’s vote to dissolve. That board met after the committee meeting and indeed voted itself out of existence.

“We’ve sold the property, we’ve paid all the bills, we’re done,” Knight said. “We’re going to dismantle that cooperative district because it’s moot now.”

The cooperative was established to handle sale of the Hallmark Farm, a 567-acre property off Interstate 65 near Warrior. The farm was bought in March by the Alabama Exhibition Center Corp. with plans to develop a $158 million Alabama Farm Center. The center will host events such as livestock shows, rodeos and concerts, and it is to include an indoor livestock arena, an outdoor arena, barns and an exhibit hall.

“Everything – the sale of this property, all the negotiations of this property – has basically been through the cooperative district who actually owned the property,” Knight said.

The commission’s president pro tempore, who chaired the committee meeting in the absence of President Jimmie Stephens, said there will still be local involvement.

“We’re still going to work with them through the county,” he said. “But the cooperative district is done. What we’ve done with the cooperative district is basically maintain the property, taken care of the property, control the in access and out access (and) pay the bonds that were on the property.

“All the money’s paid off. All the bills are paid,” Knight said. “We’re done.”