The Green Bay school district voted June 23 to unload the last closed school of its consolidation effort, Langlade Elementary, through a land swap with the village of Allouez. Now, it’s up to the village to accept the proposal.
Under the plan, Green Bay will deed Langlade to the village and, in return, the school district will receive approximately 4.15 acres of land adjacent to Webster Elementary. The district and village will share the costs of any transactions and surveying, and each party will be able to use the other’s facilities when required.
The Webster land parcel helps clean up patchy borders left over from when the district split from the city of Green Bay, according to the district. It has no current plans for the Webster acreage. The next village of Allouez board meeting is July 1.
Langlade will close in the 2026-27 school year; the property won’t go to Allouez until then. School board member Andrew Becker was the only one to oppose the trade.
School board president James Lyerly said the district has been aiming to work with local municipalities in its land trades.
“We were looking for ways that they could partner us and make sure the use of this land benefited the community,” Lyerly said after the meeting.
The land trade with Allouez is the third trade this year. In March, the school district approved a 17-acre trade with the city of Green Bay that straightened out property lines and set Elmore and Tank Elementary on the path to development. In May, the school board set Tank on a path toward use by disability service provider Aspiro.
In May, the district and the village of Bellevue traded about 23 acres of land, which would allow Green Bay to expand to the far east side in the future if needed.
If the district hadn’t offloaded its empty buildings, either through sale, trade or demolition, insurance costs would’ve increased “significantly,” according to the district.
In April, the district voted to sell the Friedrich Froebel Early Learning Center site for $435,000. At the same meeting, it voted to sell Keller Elementary for $800,000 and Wequiock Elementary for $500,000. Becker voted no on the sales of both Keller and Wequiock, and former board member Bryan Milz voted to oppose the Wequiock sale.
The district also plans to sell the vacant land next to Friedrich Froebel Early Learning Center for $60,000, which was also decided at the June 23 meeting. The property, 3520 Finger Road, was listed online for $75,000.
This article originally appeared on Green Bay Press-Gazette: Langlade Elementary part of swap between Green Bay school district, village of Allouez
Reporting by Nadia Scharf, Green Bay Press-Gazette / Green Bay Press-Gazette
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