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Carver/Century Building Declared Surplus, Could Be Sold
December 17, 2009
The former Carver/Century K-8 School has been reclassified as surplus property, and the school district would love to find a buyer for the property.
The Escambia County School Board officially reclassified the property as a “District Ancillary Services Facility” and has approved disposing of the property when it is no longer of value to the district.
“We will canvas and see if there might be someone interested in purchasing the buildings,” Shawn Dennis, assistant superintendent of operations, said. “We don’t anticipate that happening due to the size of the buildings…for now, we will just use it for storage.”
The district has attempted to find a new use for anything of value inside the former K-8 school. A majority of the school’s furnishings were transferred to Bratt Elementary and Ernest Ward Middle School, the two schools that absorbed Carver/Century’s student population.
A surplus property open house was held at the school in Century, allowing other Escambia district schools to claim items of use. Other furnishings were moved to Pensacola for another inter-district surplus property open house.
“I think the taxpayers of this county would demand that we put the furnishings to use instead of leaving them sitting in an empty building,” he said.
For now, the ancillary services facility designation means the district will use the building as storage for both North Escambia schools and any overflow from the Pensacola area schools. “We have a shortage of storage down here,” Dennis said.
The ancillary classification also removed the available capacity of Carver/Century from the school district’s total number of available student seats, possibly making additional funding available for district capital improvement projects.
NorthEscambia.com file photo.
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3 Responses to “Carver/Century Building Declared Surplus, Could Be Sold”
Nothing is more empty and sad than a closed school. Once a place of noise, running, learning, and loving is solitude and emptiness. You can hear the walls talking.
Good idea. I’ll bet the school board would even give them free utilities and rent like they did with the old high school. Wonder if that ever got paid back or just swept under the rug.
Could someone/church open a Christian School and give families in the area an option to Public Schools?