No final decisions have been made, but the Leon School District is at least looking at selling its two administrative buildings as a way to offset state funding reductions.
Ed Murray appeared before school board members at the meeting of Monday, August 11. He heads NAI Talcor, the area's largest locally owned commercial real estate firm. That meeting took place in the Aquilina Howell Building on West Pensacola Street, which Murray said was among the properties that could be sold.
"The facility we're in here, the facility that's down the road where the offices are, and that would also consider you guys closing the Bloxham Building and not having those expenses. You don't own that, but you're spending money on that every day."
The sale, said Murray, could bring in more than $9 million to the district. Here's the reaction from Superintendent Rocky Hanna.
"Financially if it makes sense, then it's absolutely something we need to look into."
Hanna said if the property sales move forward, the district would relocate its administrative offices into a leased space of some sort.
