No have been submitted to the city by a non-profit educational institution to lease the after students vacate the building at the end of this school year.
Proposals were due yesterday—Tuesday, May 10. The to lease the building both locally and in the Central Register, the secretary of state’s website for public projects, Sarah Stanton, the city’s purchasing director, explained then.
Stanton told Woburn Patch yesterday that no proposals were submitted. The only people who requested proposal paperwork were city residents, she said.
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Leasing the building has between city and school officials and some residents of the Clapp School neighborhood.
School and city officials had hoped to lease the building for up to five years, until the space is needed temporarily when they anticipate that the next elementary school building project—the Hurld and Wyman Schools—will start. With that plan in mind, the in this past Feb. 8 that the school is still needed for educational purposes.
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Some neighborhood . They say a home rule petition passed by the legislature just about a year ago allows the building to be used only by the Woburn school department.
School and city attorneys disagreed.
Earlier this year, the SEEM special education collaborative, of which Woburn is a member, considered the Clapp School, as well as space in Melrose and Stoneham, for one of its programs.
In March, . The Melrose lease cost was lower, and allowed students up to twelfth graders there. Woburn would have limited students to eighth-graders.
The from non-profit educational institutions to lease the school.
The School Committee’s resource subcommittee will discuss the use of the Clapp School when it meets this coming Tuesday, May 17, at 8:30 a.m., subcommittee Chairman Joseph Crowley told Woburn Patch after Tuesday’s School Committee meeting.
Crowley said he knew of no one who might want to lease the Clapp.
Having an other-than-non-profit educational institution lease the building raises other issues, Crowley commented Tuesday night.
Mayor Scott Galvin did not return two phone calls from Woburn Patch for comment on the fate of the school.
Some students at the Clapp School will move to the new Goodyear School this fall; some will transfer to the White School.
"Clamor" for new elementary school
In related news, Crowley told the School Committee Tuesday that people at the Hurld and Wyman Elementary Schools are beginning to “clamor” for a new school. The committee accepted for the record a petition signed by about 50 people, Crowley said, asking for a new state-of-the-art elementary school.
Crowley attended a and urged the audience to begin to advocate for a new school. He subsequently .
