I assume you mean the school board.

I’m always impressed when I meet someone more cynical than I am.

Having a school building doesn’t automatically raise the value of property in the area.
There has been no talk about building a new high school although Tate IS a high school between Century and Pensacola.

If one were planned and somebody had a particular place in mind to get rich off of selling, it’s not hard to move over half a mile or a mile in any direction and the speculators are left out in the cold. These projects usually take years, so the conspirators would have to change in the mean time as different people came into play and others out of existence.

David favoring virtual high schools, lower land and maintenance costs

The High School was an abandoned building that would have been regularly vandalized and used by homeless people and drug addicts. It is my opinion that since Century still has such a good-old-boy network going, that none of these goals came to fruition.

Remember there are always two sides to every story. I hear that the county wants the Century High School back to act as a temporary school while a new school is built between Century and Pensacola. Meanwhile, many Government Officials and their friends, who know about this, are buying up the farm land that will be used to build this new school. This way they can line their pockets once the county comes to buy that land. All of the property that will be used to build the new school, as well as the property around it for new neighborhoods, will certainly bring quite a nice price once the County comes a calling.

Could this article be a way to make sure that everyone finds fault with the $1 lease and doesn’t notice what is really going on here? Who is really profiting from all of this? Look deeper folks.

You’ll get used to it in time. Most government spending is done with a mind to voter support in the next election under the theory that they can’t fix the problems they caused unless they are re-elected.

Setting aside the utilities and upkeep question, an old building built for a specific purpose is not really as valuable to anyone else who wants it for another purpose. That is why there are abandoned school buildings all over the county, in fact all over the country.

If people want to meet as a church let em meet in their homes.

If they need a bigger space rent out the gym for a reasonable amount each meeting.

If people want something of their own, do what we all do, save money, get a loan and buy or build property.

What is the reason a group is given more and expected less from than the rest of us?

As “cynical” pointed out, this is govenment supporting a church group.
Unfortunately our tax dollars were used in this caper.

It is criminal.

Who comes up with the idea to lease property for less than it costs to maintain, not collect utility payments, and offer a 10 year interest free loan. I will tell you the answer, THE GOVERNMENT!

*Please note my comments are not directed at the church, but rather the complete inefficiencies and lack of common sense demonstrated by the government.

Thank you and Merry Christmas!

if you are solely looking at the good an organization may do and giving them a good deal based on that, rather than their religious beliefs, then no.

I doubt Jim Paul and Brother Stalworth were members of the same church so it is less likely to be co-mingling. More likely it was a political favor: you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours. Politicians are always bending over backwards to support preachers who might speak a kindly word about them to voters.

and then there’s economic development, likely he thought the action would improve the education and economy of Century