Cardinal Schools Board of Education voted unanimously March 9 to put the former Cardinal Intermediate School property up for public auction at 10 a.m. April 19.
Cardinal Schools Board of Education voted unanimously March 9 to put the former Cardinal Intermediate School property up for public auction at 10 a.m. April 19.
The resolution said the property, totaling about 1.75 acres in three parcels, is no longer needed for school purposes.
The auction will be held in the board of education central office next door to the CIS building.
The sale of the property will not be final until the board votes to accept the bid at a special meeting to be held in May or June, according to a press release dated March 10. The board must also vote to accept a purchase agreement.
“The board reserves the right to reject the highest bid received at the public auction, reject any and all bids submitted at the public auction and waive any informalities related to the public auction,” the release said. “In the event the board does not accept a bid from the auction, the board may proceed with a private sale.”
After board members voted for the auction, they passed a resolution to hire the architectural firm GPD Group of Akron to design a new bus garage, a parking lot for the garage and porticoes for the high school and the elementary school.
At a previous meeting, the board discussed building the new garage at the south end of the high school parking lot and using Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds for the project. During that meeting, they also discussed demolishing the current bus garage north of the CIS building.
The bus garage is located behind the CIS building and the Geauga County Auditor’s Office website map shows it occupies the same three parcels the CIS building occupies.
On March 10, Superintendent Bill Kermavner said GDP will give the district direction regarding the location of the new bus garage.
The CIS building was renovated five years ago and efforts were made to lease different parts of the building. A science laboratory was created in part of the structure and classrooms were used to allow social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kermavner said the GPD Group will provide blueprints for the garage to help estimate the cost and to meet the guidelines of the Ohio Facilities Construction Commission.
