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Leasing the LPS buildings; How does this affect possible Injunction
Topic Started: Jan 9 2006, 10:45 AM (270 Views)
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If LPS enters into lease agreements, how does this affect a possible injunction
against the LI? Since a lease is a legal agreement between parties, what would happen if there is an injunction to temporarily maintain the status quo?

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School buildings offered for lease
BY STEPHANIE ANGELYN CASOLA
STAFF WRITER


As Livonia Public Schools moves forward with its Legacy Initiative, the district is entertaining offers to lease out the elementary buildings scheduled to close next fall.

Under the Legacy plan, supported by board members last month, the district will close seven schools and reconfigure grades into buildings for grades K-4, 5-6, 7-8 and 9-12.

To contribute to an estimated savings of $1.5 to $2 million per year, the plan includes the potential to lease those school buildings set to close. They include: Adams, Hull, McKinley, Nankin Mills, Taylor, Tyler, Washington.

"We've had interest in several of our buildings," said Lisa Levesque, finance director.

While she's fielding questions about several locations, the district is currently discussing a possible lease for Washington Elementary.

"Plymouth-Canton did contact us about utilizing Washington throughout their construction process," said Levesque. "They're doing some building and they have a need for one elementary school for next year. We're talking. We'll see where it goes."

Parents and the Washington community have been notified of these talks, Levesque said.

While she called the Washington lease "the most definite thing we have in the works," no paperwork or recommendation has yet come before the school board. Levesque said the district is taking names and inquiries about all of its available property.

"We have an active community all around us," she said. "We're looking at all the requests we get."


Originally published January 8, 2006

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Jan 9 2006, 10:45 AM
If LPS enters into lease agreements, how does this affect a possible injunction
against the LI? Since a lease is a legal agreement between parties, what would happen if there is an injunction to temporarily maintain the status quo?

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School buildings offered for lease
BY STEPHANIE ANGELYN CASOLA
STAFF WRITER


As Livonia Public Schools moves forward with its Legacy Initiative, the district is entertaining offers to lease out the elementary buildings scheduled to close next fall.

Under the Legacy plan, supported by board members last month, the district will close seven schools and reconfigure grades into buildings for grades K-4, 5-6, 7-8 and 9-12.

To contribute to an estimated savings of $1.5 to $2 million per year, the plan includes the potential to lease those school buildings set to close. They include: Adams, Hull, McKinley, Nankin Mills, Taylor, Tyler, Washington.

"We've had interest in several of our buildings," said Lisa Levesque, finance director.

While she's fielding questions about several locations, the district is currently discussing a possible lease for Washington Elementary.

"Plymouth-Canton did contact us about utilizing Washington throughout their construction process," said Levesque. "They're doing some building and they have a need for one elementary school for next year. We're talking. We'll see where it goes."

Parents and the Washington community have been notified of these talks, Levesque said.

While she called the Washington lease "the most definite thing we have in the works," no paperwork or recommendation has yet come before the school board. Levesque said the district is taking names and inquiries about all of its available property.

"We have an active community all around us," she said. "We're looking at all the requests we get."


Originally published January 8, 2006

That's a question for the lawyer working on the injunction. I would hope that all actions taken ( legal or otherwise ) would become null & void if an injunction is successful.
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That's what I was thinking. I hope so!!
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Plymouth/Canton Observer 1/19/06

http://www.hometownlife.com/apps/pbcs.dll/...404/1204/NEWS15

Article published Jan 19, 2006
Livonia lease a good option

The few parents who are sniffling because Plymouth-Canton school officials shifted their course of action to deal with renovations at Miller Elementary School are off-base.

There has been some limited whining the last couple of weeks since school officials have been negotiating with their counterparts in the Livonia school district to rent Washington Elementary, the school at Ann Arbor Road and Hix which Livonia officials will close in a restructuring of their district because of declining enrollment.

Plymouth-Canton needs more space because a $4.5 million renovation plan at Miller Elementary is forcing the district to close that school for an entire school year. That means P-C officials have to find somewhere for the general students and Talented and Gifted students to go to school next year.

The grousing comes because Plymouth-Canton Supt. Jim Ryan originally announced those students would be moved to the new Workman Elementary School in Canton's Cherry Hill Village, a school scheduled to open in August.

The whining goes something like this (and we're paraphrasing here): "First, the district told us one thing, then they said another. How are our kids supposed to adjust?"

But Ryan's initial announcement came well before the December decision by the Livonia Board of Education to close schools and realign its district. Plymouth-Canton officials can scarcely be faulted for exploring new options, particularly when they provide a better solution than cramming all those students into one building for a year.

Miller students are going to be bused somewhere, either to a school (Workman) that would then be bursting at the seams or to an empty school (Washington) the district will have to pay some $225,000, about what it would have cost them to run Miller for the year in the first place.

The busing distance to both alternatives is the same, about 4.5 miles, so the students were going to have to adjust either way. This way, most of them will have their own building rather than having to jam into Workman.

Workman won't be big enough for everyone, but the district plans to put the TAG kids at Workman for a year, with the rest going to Washington. That will allow the district to draw attendance boundaries that will allow students living within sight of Workman to attend the school, rather than having them bused right past it.

Children generally prove to be far more resilient than adults, a fact we're confident will allow them to adjust to their new surroundings at Washington. Parents are right to be concerned their children are given every opportunity to succeed with as little stress as possible.

Assuming a lease is worked out with Livonia, that's exactly what Plymouth-Canton school officials are doing here.
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