The board of education in Mohave Valley, California, has voted to approve the demolition of up to 13 structures located on a former grade school campus.
According to the Mohave Valley Daily News, the Mohave Valley Elementary School Board has voted to move ahead on the demolition process to clear the land for a new school bus parking lot and maintenance yard.
According to the newspaper, “The condemned buildings are primarily dilapidated portable classrooms [that] have not been maintained since the school’s closing in 2015.”
A school board superintendent tells the Mohave Valley Daily News it has already consulted with a general contractor who indicated the portable structures had “outlived their usefulness.”
The planned bus yard will include charging stations for seven electric buses being purchased by the school board. “The buses and charging station infrastructure is funded through a $2.7 million grant awarded to the district last year,” the Daily News reports.
Current plans call for some remaining buildings to be converted into bus maintenance or warehouse space. The school board superintendent estimates demolishing the rest of the structures could cost more than $100,000.