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The Ulysses school district will soon have a new storage facility and Dr. Bradyn Bishop will soon take possession of the old Weaver Popcorn building after the USD 214 board of trustees met in special session Oct. 24 to finalize an exchange.
From time of call-to-order to time of adjournment was 4 minutes and 33 seconds, and trustees Mike Meyer and Nichole Winner were the only trustees in attendance at the Joyce School administration office. Trustees Daron Cowan, Chad McCormick, Diana Nunez and board president Ron Smith joined the meeting via conference call. Trustee Kasey Kreuger was absent.
Board president Smith tapped Meyer to lead the meeting since he was in person at the administration building.
The old Weaver Popcorn Company building in Ulysses has been used by USD 214 for storage since the district purchased it in June 2010. The district struck a deal Sept. 24 with Dr. Bradyn Bishop and builder Craig Malone to hash out the size and type of building Bishop will have built for the district as a tradeoff.
Thursday night’s meeting was broken down into three parts - the exchange agreement with “Everyday a Honeymoon” by and through Dr. Bishop; permission to execute the deed to the property, and disposal of surplus equipment currently stored in the popcorn factory building.
Each motion was unanimously approved.
The deed will be executed upon completion of the project.
”This agreement will be worked up with Paul Kitzke, our board attorney,” said Superintendent Corey Burton. “We went back and forth with him/her for a couple of weeks trying to get it all lined up to where we needed it and this is what he recommended that we do in order to move forward.”
Burton said the district will choose what items currently stored in the building need to be disposed of and the manner in which it will be disposed.
“If we feel like it’s worth something, we will try to sell it,” Burton said. “My second deal would be to try to do some type of a community free event, maybe a weekend, a Saturda, if people want to come and pick things up they can come and pick things up that we no longer need.”
The district will announce at a later date if it wants to do that.
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