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Council encourages county to buy Southgate site and invite city to negotiate joint school-office formula
Summary
After a multi-month site review, the city council voted to encourage the county to purchase the Southgate property and to invite the city to negotiate a formula for a joint city–county school office building; the motion makes no immediate financial commitment by the city.
Vice Mayor Reeves briefed the Murfreesboro City Council on a months-long joint city–county school office site-selection process and asked the council to encourage the county to buy the Southgate property and invite the city to participate in negotiating a formula for a joint building. The council voted to approve that request, with one member voting no.
The joint committee reviewed about 20 sites since February and narrowed the list through multiple rounds of site visits and secret ballots, Reeves said. Committee members reported estimated space needs of roughly 17,000 square feet for the city and approximately 40,000 square feet for the county, with about 9,000 square feet identified as shared space. Charlie Johnson, the committee’s architect, prepared cost comparisons for one-, two-, three- and four-story designs and examined parking implications.
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