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Friday, 10 August 2007 |
C’ville to continue property talks
By ANNIE ZELM
Staff Writer
Cridersville Village Council members plan to continue to discuss property matters essential to the proposed construction of a new school during a special meeting scheduled for 8 a.m. Saturday, Cridersville Mayor Bob Connors told the Wapakoneta Daily News in a telephone interview Thursday night.
Connors announced Saturday’s meeting after approximately two hours of discussion in executive session Thursday with council’s Cridersville Planning Committee members.
“The issue, and the reason for a lot of the meetings the school board has been having, is to get the feelings of the school district about how they feel about the new school and to reach negotiations as quick as possible,”
Conners said. “In some of the plans put out regarding school facility construction, Cridersville was not in the plan, and that has an economical impact on the village.
“We’re trying to work with the school district and the board to acquire some land so we can have a school in the village and keep the economic growth going here,” he said. “We’re down to the point where
the school board has to make a decision pretty quick involving where to put the new elementary schools.”
The sole purpose of the meeting was to discuss real estate prices for privately-owned land the village must purchase if the Wapakoneta City School Board intends to build one of its two proposed elementary schools in the village, as outlined in a proposal by the Ohio School Facilities Commission’s Classroom Facilities Assistance Program, Connors said.
In a resolution members of the Wapakoneta Board of Education passed in late June, board members provided a district building plan that included building two new elementary schools for preschool through fourth- grades.
It also allowed for the abatement and demolition of Centennial, Cridersville and Northridge elementary schools.
One of the proposed elementary schools could be located in Cridersville on the 37 acres of land under review, located across from the Otterbein-Cridersville Retirement Living Communities on Reichelderfer Road. Approximately 297 students are enrolled at the existing Cridersville Elementary School, and the proposed school would be constructed for 350 students.
If the new elementary school is built, the Wapakoneta City School District would be required to provide transportation for students outside of the village, Connors said.
The upcoming meeting is scheduled to begin with a public session, followed by an executive session discussion of the property and adjournment with no action expected, Connors said. |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 11 August 2007 )
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