The Scranton School Board voted Dec. 15 to acquire 1509 Maple Street (the Friendship House property) for $2,500,000 and approved a related lease agreement that allows Friendship House to lease back approximately 15% of the building.<\/p>\n
During presentation staff summarized sale and lease terms: the district will purchase the building for $2.5 million; Friendship House will remain as a tenant and pay $15,596 per month in rent for roughly 15% of the facility. An accompanying lease agreement was presented and approved together with the purchase agreement.<\/p>\n
Board members asked whether past utility bills were available to assess the district\u2019s exposure given the lease includes utilities in rent; staff said they were aware of the issue and would follow up to supply utility history. The motion passed on roll call (7 affirmative, 2 negative).<\/p>\n
The presentation noted an accompanying lease agreement and no immediate financial impact beyond the purchase price was provided in the executive summary; the board requested more information about operating costs tied to the lease terms before full implementation.<\/p>\n
Next steps: administration indicated follow\u2011up on utility cost history and implementation details for the leaseback; the purchase and lease documents approved at the meeting enable contract execution subject to any final administrative clarifications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Scranton School Board voted Dec. 15 to acquire 1509 Maple Street (the Friendship House property) for $2,500,000…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-62143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}