Friday, August 27, 2010
Kanawha School Officials Consider Condemnation
WEST VIRGINIA....
Kanawha school officials have become concerned that a proposed land swap with the city of Charleston concerning property at Cato Park might not work out. The school district risks losing $8.5 million in state School Building Authority money for a second new West Side elementary school, if it doesn't own the site by November 1st. Officials say they might consider taking part of Cato Park through condemnation proceedings, but Charleston Mayor Danny Jones doesn't think the school board has the legal right to take city property through the condemnation process as it does from other types of landowners. He wants the school district to continue working toward a swap. Jones says he supports the construction of another West Side elementary school, but condemning city property is the wrong way to get property for a school.
Kanawha school officials have become concerned that a proposed land swap with the city of Charleston concerning property at Cato Park might not work out. The school district risks losing $8.5 million in state School Building Authority money for a second new West Side elementary school, if it doesn't own the site by November 1st. Officials say they might consider taking part of Cato Park through condemnation proceedings, but Charleston Mayor Danny Jones doesn't think the school board has the legal right to take city property through the condemnation process as it does from other types of landowners. He wants the school district to continue working toward a swap. Jones says he supports the construction of another West Side elementary school, but condemning city property is the wrong way to get property for a school.
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