HUDSON BAY — The North East School Division is offering an incentive to the Town of Hudson Bay to take the old Stewart Hawke School off their hands
At their Setp. 25, meeting, the board passed a motion to offer an incentive of $150,000 to the town.
A former elementary school, the building currently sits empty. To demolish the building, the board budgeted the cost at $300,000, but it could be more if asbestos was found.
“We weren’t able to find anyone who wanted to purchase the building,” said Don Rempel, the division's director of education. “We’ve worked with the town all along the process and the town is willing to take on the building, and take on the search for an alternate use for the facility. And we incentivised that a little bit with some of the cost we would have occurred to demolish the building. If the town is left with having to do some improvements, if they want to decommission some of that building, we have some funds to start.”
