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Roseville Gets its Elementary School Back
In the end, a petition drive wasn't needed to get the village of Roseville its now former elementary school back.


The Monmouth-Roseville School Board last night voted to sell the school, closed at the end of the last school year due to massive budget cuts, to the village for one-dollar. It was thought the petitions would be needed to get a question regarding the property transfer on the April election ballot. But, as it turns out, a different state law allowed the transfer anyway.

The vote, however, was six to one. The lone dissenter was member David Reid Clark.

"We have a resource there that we don't even know is worth anything or worthless, worth a buck or worth more and we're going to trade it out on this intergovernmental agreement for nothing. I don't think that's a very wise decision, I don't think it's very prudent and I don't think it represents the interest of the entire district."

Some members voting in favor, though, suggested it was the right thing to do, and could possible quell some hard feelings in Roseville over the school's closure.

Village officials say they want to use the school as a community center, but plans are nowhere near final.

The board last night voted to hold of on auctioning off Willits Primary School in Monmouth until some more research could be done.
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