Talks continue about revising the lease for Clancy’s Old Red Schoolhouse, with the North Jefferson County Library District board signaling it’s looking into what it would take to buy the facility from Clancy School, which leases the building to Jefferson County in a $1, 99-year agreement.
The county commissioners signaled late last fall that the county would prefer not to be a lessee of the building, whose tenants include Clancy Library, Jefferson County Museum and the Public Health Department.
The commission publicly discussed its concerns with the lease the evening of Oct. 29, when about 70 people packed the Jefferson City Community Center for an otherwise routine meeting. That night, commissioners Bob Mullen and Cory Kirsch — Leonard Wortman was absent — indicated a desire to restructure the lease due to concerns County Attorney Steve Haddon had expressed about its terms.
