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Council authorizes city manager to accept Schleier Foundation lease for South Meeting House
Summary
After a presentation by the Schleier Foundation and PMAC, the Portsmouth City Council authorized the city manager to enter a lease that would transfer restoration responsibility to a private foundation and establish PMAC as the initial nonprofit tenant; the city retains ownership and improvements will revert to the city.
The Portsmouth City Council on Nov. 17 authorized the city manager to accept and finalize a lease that would place restoration and long-term stewardship of the historic South Meeting House in private hands while keeping city ownership.
Representatives of the Schleier Foundation and Portsmouth Music & Arts Center (PMAC) presented a jointly proposed model that…
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