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District to pay $1.27 million for middle school site
BEAVERCREEK — School officials are close to purchasing a 50-acre site owned by the Nutter family to build the district’s next middle school.
The $1.27 million deal is contingent on a zoning change and environmental assessment of the land at the corner of Dayton-Xenia and Ankeney roads, according to district officials.
The district plans to build a new middle school on the land as part of an $89-million district-wide building and renovation project. The work is possible because voters approved a tax request in November after two defeats at the ballot box.
The current Ferguson Middle School will be used to house students from the now overcrowded high school, according to the plan. New middle and elementary schools will be constructed.
District officials have been searching for a middle school site north of U.S. 35 since paying Beavercreek Twp. $1.9 million for about 90 acres at the corner of South Alpha Bellbrook and Indian Ripple roads in August 2007. That site will be saved for future expansion.
Richard Eckhardt, school board president, said the district estimates the new middle school site could save $70,000 annually on transportation costs. District officials are in the midst of designing the two new schools and preparing for remodeling across the district.
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By Truby
March 20, 2009 12:08 PM | Link to this
So what are they doing with the land they spent nearly 2 mil on? Isn’t it time to show this board and the superintendent the door?By Tom
March 20, 2009 12:34 PM | Link to this
Truby, please read the entire article before you comment next time. They are building two schools. One north of 35 and one south of 35. You are taking what the article says out of context.By flipper
March 20, 2009 12:34 PM | Link to this
Just wait until the board decides not to use the Alpha Bellbrook site and sells that tract for a huge loss. Remember the Dayton Xenia site COULD save $70,000 per year but not for sure.By Skeptic
March 20, 2009 12:39 PM | Link to this
If they would stop allowing all those new cookie-cutter houses, they wouldn’t need those new schools! Beavercreek can’t afford to continue on this path without raising taxes even more. Good luck!By Saratoga
March 20, 2009 12:46 PM | Link to this
I attended the school board meeting last night and felt everything the school board discussed was in the best interest of the students and the overall future of the community as a whole. If anyone has a comment regarding their decisions, you are more than welcome to attend a meeting and let your voice be heard. Not everyone is going to be satisfied, but I believe the Beavercreek school board is doing a great job.By Charles
March 20, 2009 1:09 PM | Link to this
Hey Saratoga, did they tell everyone how they’re going to pay for the new elementary gyms? What about the transportation costs for the elementary school on the Indian Ripple site? It isn’t bounded by homes like the other elems. Save 70k one place, spend 100k on the other. This board and this superintendent have their best interests at heart. If you only knew…By Steve
March 20, 2009 1:33 PM | Link to this
and the city continues to sprawl out my way.By Saratoga
March 20, 2009 1:36 PM | Link to this
I only heard what information was made public; I am not aware of any shady or backroom deals. Do you have any proof or is your cynicism in the way?By Lea
March 20, 2009 1:54 PM | Link to this
If you don’t live in Beavercreek AND don’t have kids in school you have no idea what the conditions are. The tax increase I voted for may be expensive but my children are worth it. I’m tired of my kids having to wait in line OUTSIDE in the WINTER just to go to the bathroom.By Carl
March 20, 2009 2:54 PM | Link to this
Lets see if I understand this. We brought 90 acres for 2 million, than we decide na, lets buy more land. Than “someday” we will use the old land. Its a good thing its not real money but goverment money.By 4nonbias
March 20, 2009 3:08 PM | Link to this
Did the school boards have a professional market analysis of the property done by several Realtors prior to the purchase? Sounds like to much money for the property to me though I haven’t done a market analysis.By Lea
March 20, 2009 3:22 PM | Link to this
Carl, read the article again. TWO schools. TWO lots needed. And given the number of kids from Riverside and Fairborn who are somehow allowed to attend our schools too, those lots are going to need to be BIG.4non, that’s one of the things that is required by the state… It’s not like you or I going out and buying a house ‘cause we like it!By Wordell
March 20, 2009 6:52 PM | Link to this
Why are you building schools? Obama will provide you with all you need to be: mediocre, dense, a good parade participant, and a smiling face during out takes of your state produced propaganda movies. Why aren’t you seizing the land of the Nutter Family? It’s obvious they’re capitalist scum!!!…actually paying for something that belongs to someone else?!! What in the hell is wrong with you!!!! Move to the future!!!! Embrace the brainwashing bliss of Obamaism & the 60’s generations final conquest!!! Schools? No need….just tell everyone where to be (pitchfork in hand) at 5:00 A.M.By the lorax
March 20, 2009 10:01 PM | Link to this
I think more people need to know about the 90 acre tract that is not being built on now. This land was willed to the park board -and therefore all the residents of Beavercreek- to be set aside as park land. It is adjacent to The Narrows and is a beautiful piece of land. It could have easily sold for x5 what the school paid. Why did the park district sell it dirt cheap to the schools?? There must have been someone who is elected making dirty money from this transaction. The schools should sell it back to a park district for what it paid.By Empty Nester
March 23, 2009 9:40 PM | Link to this
Lea: I agree; kids shouldn’t have to wait outside in the cold waiting to go to the bathroom. Now, if we could just get those Fairborn and Riverside kids out of our schools, we would likely have plenty of room for the Beavercreek children. And, oh yeah, get the ones out that don’t officially live here “yet”. Like the ones whose parents may just own a plot of land or have a house “started” and by the way, they aren’t paying their fair share of property/school tax, folks.By IndependentOne
March 31, 2009 9:29 AM | Link to this
Some of you are never happy with anything. No park district owned or sold land to the schools and the state of Ohio sets the school boundaries and kids from Riverside/fairborn who go to school here pay Beavercreek tax rates. Learn some facts before you go off, could you? I agree about needing to improve the schools - my kids eat lunch on the FLOOR in Beavercreek. I didn’t move here for them to be in conditions like we have thanks to people who don’t get facts and just vote no because someone tells them half truths.