OXFORD — School Superintendent Rick Colpitts announced Monday night that the state has turned down a request for reimbursement for leasing costs at the new Oxford Hills Middle School campus in Oxford.
“The state board turned it down for this year. It was not unexpected,” Colpitts told directors at a meeting at Oxford Hills School District offices on Route 26.
Directors submitted an application to recover leasing expenses, with the expectation that they may not come.
If the state approved the five-year agreement, it would have reimbursed the district $176,000 of the $198,000 paid in years two through five, Colpitts said at an earlier meeting. There is no charge for using the building on Madison Avenue in Oxford the first year.
The state’s leased space program reimburses districts for up to $8 per square foot. The lease with building owner Bob Bahre of Alton, N.H. is at $9 per square foot.
The directors approved leasing the Madison Avenue building in March to ease overcrowding at Oxford Hills Middle School in Paris. The 22,000-square-foot building has been used for classroom space at times over the past two decades.
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