Participants outline next steps for "Bill School" property: title search, $4,000 survey quote, developer interest and grant opportunities

Participants at the meeting discussed next steps for a property referred to in the transcript as the "Bill School." Speaker 4 said the group has signed a purchase/sale renewal with the village and is conducting a title search and land survey. "Title search and land survey is what we're doing now. Received a, quote in for $4,000 from, AmEx to do that, survey," Speaker 4 said in the transcript.

Speaker 4 highlighted on-the-ground constraints and legal steps: overgrowth behind the school must be cleared; attorneys are working to determine metes and bounds so the group can "put up the right, monitors for it." Speaker 4 said those steps should be completed in August and that an appraisal already has been done on one side of the property. "So we'll come back with some kind of numbers, after we get them all in place to talk to the board on what we should sell," Speaker 4 added.

Speaker 4 also said the matter connects to other redevelopment efforts: the Masonic site remains under consideration and staff continue to pursue Restore New York and Downtown Revitalization Initiative (DRI) resources. The speaker said staff prepared an extensive photo inventory that National Grid requested as part of potential window-related work and expected to have updates by the next meeting.

The transcript does not identify the meeting's governing body, list a meeting date, or attach written agenda materials. Where the record is unclear (for example, references to the IDA or to "the board"), this account reports only what the transcript contains: plans for a title search, a quoted $4,000 survey estimate, attorney engagement on legal descriptions, an appraisal, developer interest, and outreach to Restore New York, DRI and National Grid.