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$150,000 bid for property could be rejected by school board
By Jim Carney
Beacon Journal staff writer
Published on Wednesday, Oct 14, 2009
CUYAHOGA FALLS: The builder who purchased the Tallmadge Middle School earlier this year put in the highest bid Tuesday for Sill Middle School in Cuyahoga Falls.
Joseph R. Scaccio, president of Carmen Construction of Tallmadge, said he did not intend to buy the building when he went to the auction Tuesday morning but put in the bid of $150,000.
He has no idea what he may want to do with the property.
Cuyahoga Falls School Superintendent Edwin S. Holland said the school board must approve any sale and will decide whether to accept the bid when it meets at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 26.
He said he doubts the school board will go along with that purchase price for the school building that sits on 10 acres at 1910 Searl St.
If the school board turns down the auction bid, it then can put the property on the market. The district could possibly get $150,000 for the land alone, Holland said.
In Tallmadge, Scaccio first bid $190,000 but ultimately paid $500,000 after negotiations with the Tallmadge school board.
Falls School Board President Barb Gunter said the board will ''look at what happened in Tallmadge'' as it decides the issue of the sale of Sill.
The successful bidder must also pay a 5 percent premium on top of the purchase price.
Dozens of people turned out Tuesday to buy things from the school built in 1949. The school closed in 2005.
For sale were maps, tables, chairs, televisions, cafeteria trays, exercise equipment, shelves, record players and an assortment of other things.
Mary McClure, of Stow, purchased two Sill school banners — one that reads Sill Junior High and the other that is inscribed with the school's alma mater.
The volunteer with the Cuyahoga Falls Historical Society said she will donate the two banners that she bought for $4.50 a piece to the historical society.
She said she had hoped she could ''rescue the history and keep it in the community.''
John Wengerd, from Berlin in Holmes County, purchased a batting cage for five bucks and an electronic microscope for $12.50 for his son.
''He's into science,'' Wengerd said.
And Evelyn and John Tryon of Brimfield Township bought two wooden sewing machine tables for less than $5 each that they plan to give to an elderly friend who loves to sew.
As the school building was put up for auction Tuesday, Kim Gaug, chairman of the Cuyahoga Falls Good Neighbors, a nonprofit group that has rented 3,000 square feet of the 65,000-square-foot building for two years, said her group now urgently needs to find a new location.
''We are having a very hard time finding a building,'' she said.
Her organization serves about 1,000 families a year.
The group moved to Sill after it had to leave a church building where it was located for nearly 40 years.
''We are praying for a miracle,'' said Gaug.
Superintendent Holland said while it is difficult to let go of a school building that has served the community for nearly six decades, times have changed.
The Falls school district that had 12,000 students in the 1970s now has 5,000 students and has an increasing number of homes of older people with no children in the district.
''You have to separate from the past,'' Holland said.
He said money from the eventual sale of the building must be used for capital improvements.
Voters in the district in November will decide a 7.9-mill renewal levy for operations that if passed will raise nearly $6 million a year.
Holland said money eventually raised from the sale of the building will be used for capital improvements and should free up money from the general fund that might otherwise be spent on capital improvements.
Jim Carney can be reached at 330-996-3576 or jcarney@thebeaconjournal.com.
CUYAHOGA FALLS: The builder who purchased the Tallmadge Middle School earlier this year put in the highest bid Tuesday for Sill Middle School in Cuyahoga Falls.
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akron, oh
Posted 06:42 PM, 10/14/2009
Has Edward shaved yet?
Akron, OH
Posted 10:22 PM, 10/14/2009
Did they have any good sinks for sale?
Posted 01:53 AM, 10/15/2009
I spent 6 years of my schooling there. K-2 and 7-9 grades. My memories of the six years spent there are not the best. I enjoyed my 3 years at Price and 3 years at the high school much more. And like Holland said, it's a different time now and not as many students. Hope they can put it to good use whoever buys it.
akron, oh
Posted 12:17 PM, 10/15/2009
Did they auction the spitball collection, hanging in the library?
