Archive: Around Town

Lansing Schools Interim Business Administrator Gary Alger says the school district office is "an extremely inefficient office at best." The district is looking into the feasibility of leasing an office until a new permanent office in the next capital improvement project.

A leased office would be a modular building that could be brought onto the campus temporarily, then removed when it is no longer needed. One option is to put it where the current district office is, but that would mean displacing the seven people who work there while demolition and replacement takes place.

Another option is to place the building where the old restaurant on the corner of Ludlowville Road and 34B currently stands. The fire department wants to conduct a training exercise on the building, which would involved a "controlled burn" that would reduce the restaurant to a pile of ashes. A benefit of placing the leased building on that spot is that electric service and utilities are already there, so it would just be a matter of hooking them up. That spot is slated to become a parking lot in the upcoming capital improvement project, so the restaurant would be demolished in any case.

The school board gave the go-ahead for Mr. Alger to explore the costs of a three to five year lease on such a building.

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