Former Dacusville Elementary Could House Library

 The former Dacusville Elementary School building will be serving the community once more. 

County Council approved allocating $150,000 to demolition work at both the former Dacusville Elementary and Liberty Middle School sites in the current budget, Hurst said.
”Before we can begin that process, there’s need to be abatement of materials that might contain asbestos at the two facilities,” he said. “We’ve now done an abatement study and gotten the proposals to remove the asbestos.”

It appears the former Dacusville Elementary “is in very good shape,” Hurst said.

“It has about 600 square feet of asbestos-containing materials,” he said. “That one will not take very long, probably less than a week. Liberty has considerably more. That one probably take about a month.”

Removal of materials from the former Dacusville Elementary School should begin within the next couple of weeks.

“Then we’ll move on to Liberty,” he said. “I don’t anticipate any problems with Dacusville whatsoever and really nothing at Liberty concerns me, it’s just the fact that we have to get it out and get it disposed of.”

Then demolition can begin at those former schools.

“We have plans about what buildings will be demolished,” Hurst said.

Demolition expenses should not be that great, he said.

Councilman Tom Ponder has long wanted to bring a county library branch to the Dacusville area.

The purchase of the former Dacusville Elementary school will allow a library to be placed in Dacusville, but Hurst said the proposed facility would not be a typical library.

“There is a library structure as part of the Dacusville school complex,” he said. “The library board has indicated that they could establish a library, but not the traditional type of library, without incurring very much additional expense.

“But it would be one that was oriented more toward technology,” Hurst said. “Books that you could get on CD or some other type method that you could check out the books – on your cell phone or whatever. There would be some books and periodicals involved, but nothing to the extent that is Pickens or Clemson, Easley or any of those library.” 

Hurst cautioned that county council has made no decision regarding the establishment of a library in Dacusville.

“That would be a budget issue that they’ll have to take up,” he said.