Grant request, demo of burned elementary to be considered at Flint Board of Ed meeting

A Flint neighborhood child watches on as Flint firefighters work to contain a fire that started at about 12:30 a.m. on Thursday Oct. 7, 2021 at the former Washington Elementary School, located at 1400 N. Vernon Ave. in Flint. The building was built in 1922 before closing in 2013. (Jake May | MLive.com)

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FLINT, MI – Flint’s Board of Education will meet in a finance and operations subcommittee meeting next week after this week’s meeting was postponed.

The original meeting was scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 25, but it was postponed after most Genesee County schools closed for the day due to road conditions.

The finance and operations committee meeting will be held at 3 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 30 at the administration building, located at 923 E. Kearsley St.

Board members are scheduled to discuss multiple business items that have gathered attention from the community.

Those item include filing a grant request to the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the demolition of Washington Elementary School, which burned down in 2021, and the securing of the district’s vacant buildings.

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