{"id":16389,"date":"2012-11-20T08:06:58","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T13:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raleighpublicrecord.org\/?p=16389"},"modified":"2012-11-20T11:29:53","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T16:29:53","slug":"ywca-to-be-used-for-future-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/news\/2012\/11\/20\/ywca-to-be-used-for-future-school\/","title":{"rendered":"YWCA to be Used for Future School"},"content":{"rendered":"

By split vote Monday, Wake County Commissioners approved purchasing the YWCA to use for a future school.<\/p>\n

The property will be added to the county’s land bank; funding for a new school isn’t yet available.<\/p>\n

Chairman Paul Coble and Commissioners Tony Gurley and Phil Matthews voted against the purchase.<\/p>\n

Coble said he would not support the purchase because he did not think it was in a priority area, it is too small and that the county was paying too much for it.<\/p>\n

The county will pay $1 million for the 3-acre property and building on Hargett Street. The property was appraised for $1.1 million.<\/p>\n

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School District Facilities Manager Joe Desormeaux said at the previous county meeting<\/a> that it was a good opportunity to purchase land inside the Beltline at a reasonable price. It also offers the flexibility not found on other comparable parcels.<\/p>\n

At Monday’s meeting, Desormeaux said the school would fill a much-needed space in that part of the county. The area has a seat shortfall for elementary, middle and high school students.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe central region elementary seat shortfall is the worst in the county,\u201d he said.[media-credit id=25 align=”alignright” width=”300″]\"\"<\/a>[\/media-credit]<\/p>\n

It is the only school region without a land-banked site.<\/p>\n

Desormeaux said it was likely that the area would be used as an elementary school, but no plans have been finalized because there isn’t any funding.<\/p>\n

Staff estimates renovations will cost about $900,000 in construction and $200,000 for site work.<\/p>\n

If the county demolishes the building and constructs a new one, the property could hold a building that would house 300 to 500 students.<\/p>\n

The former YWCA is across the street from the county-owned A.A. Thompson Building, which will house the Wake Young Men’s Leadership Academy.<\/p>\n

In related business Monday, Commissioners approved reallocating $1.65 million for the academy’s construction.<\/p>\n

Commissioners also reallocated $2.9 million for the Wake Young Women’s Leadership Academy at the Governor Morehead School on Ashe Avenue.<\/p>\n

Because the property is state-owned, the county extended its lease with the Governor Morehead School for the Blind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wake County Commissioners Monday approved the school district’s purchase of the former YWCA to be used in the future as a school. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24029,"featured_media":16397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,15,23],"tags":[1066,676,1065],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24029"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}