GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – Green Bay Area Public School District administrators are expected to lay out the cost and potential savings for moving district offices at a school board meeting tonight.
It’s the latest step as the district deals with declining enrollment, a budget deficit, and aging facilities.
After voting to close three elementary schools, Green Bay’s school board will now be turning its attention to the 95-year-old building on Broadway that houses district offices.
The building needs $8.6 million in work and a community taskforce recommended to close it earlier this year.
A survey of residents also found 78% of respondents supported re-locating the district operations elsewhere.
The thought from the taskforce is the district offices will fit into one or two schools that are under capacity. It could help a neighborhood school stay open that otherwise might be a candidate for consolidation with another under capacity school.
However, Superintendent Claude Tiller and some school board members have been skeptical at recent school board meetings of whether the cost of re-locating would be worth it.
The DOB discussion is also expected to include the nearby Welcome Center or former Cup O Joy building. The district purchased it two years ago for $503,000 and spent $99,643 to renovate it.
