Officials will hold a straw poll tonight on a new site for the elementary school.
AUBURN – Auburn officials have obtained option agreements on two properties with hopes of building a new Lake Street Elementary School.
One property is a 9.9-acre parcel owned by Arlyne Sacks of Auburn. The second is a 1-acre lot owned by Richard Smith. Both sit on Park Avenue.
Officials signed the agreements earlier this week, just days before tonight’s scheduled straw poll on the site selection.
Auburn officials started looking for a place to build a new school three months ago after Education Commissioner Susan Gendron said the state would not help the city expand the current school. She said the expansion plan was too expensive, the site was too small and the project had too many constraints.
The new site would give the school 8.4 acres of usable land. The current school sits on less than 2 acres at 80 Lake St.
If approved, the new school would be about a mile up Lake Street or Court Street from the current school.
Auburn will hold a nonbinding straw poll about the site tonight at 6:30 at Auburn Middle School. Time will be set aside for questions and public comment.
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