BATH

Bath City Council will be engaging in a series of private executive sessions to discuss whether the city will be interested in selling property for the new high school building project headed by Regional School Unit 1.

City manager Bill Giroux said the city owns portions of the properties the RSU 1 building committee is considering for the new high school project.

This includes the Wing Farm Business Park property, Bath Middle School and the recreational complex, and the properties behind the YMCA and by the American Legion.

“(The RSU 1) would like some indication from the property owners that they’re interested in selling,” Giroux said Monday morning.

Discussions from the first session, which took place in early August after a city council meeting, will be continued at Wednesday night’s meeting.

However, Giroux said it would be a while before the council would come to a decision.

While these meetings are not yet open to the community, Giroux said public meetings will take place once a decision is made by the council in the next couple of months so that the RSU 1 can “move along” with the project.

He added that the council would not be making a decision after Wednesday’s meeting.

After the last executive session, Giroux said councilors were still interested in getting more information about the project.

“The council didn’t have all the information they wanted,” he said, regarding the last session. “They really didn’t make much progress.”

As far as the non-binding straw poll that was scheduled for the project site, RSU 1 superintendent Patrick Manuel said the vote would most likely be pushed back to October.

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