School District to List Surplus Properties

Efforts by the School District of Pickens County Board of Trustees to unload the district’s surplus properties continue.

On Thursday, board members authorized the superintendent to address several such properties, including the old EHS band field.

The board gave Superintendent Dr. Kelly Pew authorization to sell the former band field at the former Easley High School site as well as property owned by the district on LEC Road/Highway 8.

The board authorized Pew and district officials to have those properties surveyed and listed with KBS Commercial Properties.

Last year officials with and supporters of the Easley High School Band program appeared before the board to ask that proceeds from the future sale of the former EHS band practice field on Pendleton Street be given back to the band to help it deal with and replacing aging equipment and instruments. 

The board referred that issue to its property committee, before deciding to decline the request, stating that proceeds from the band field's sale would be rolled back into the general fund.

Trustees also authorized the district to have property on South 2nd Street in Easley surveyed.

Twenty acres of property behind the former Pickens Middle School site will be separated and surveyed, according to board chair Judy Edwards.