Committee asks Warren school board for more time on Harding decision

Committee asks Warren school board for more time on Harding decision

WARREN — A committee created to provide alternatives to the entire demolition of Warren G. Harding High School will ask the board of education for more time to determine how money can be raised to fund preserving part of the historic building.

By a 4-2 vote, with one abstention, members of the Harding Historic Respect Committee agreed to ask the board to give it until May 19 to determine what methods are available to raise money through grants and private donations to keep the facade, offices behind it and auditorium. The committee meeting was tonight.

Harding will close in June at the end of this school year and reopen in the fall in a new facility adjacent to the old building.

Approving of the measure were chairman Anthony Payiavlas, Judge Donald Ford, Dave Ambrose and Tom Klingerman. Voting against it were John Taylor, former city treasurer, and Colette Parker.

School board member Shari Harrell abstained because she will have to vote on the committee recommendation.

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