A girl holds the hand of her teacher Mellinda Tyler as they walk to the slide at the Children’s Corner Preschool in the former Lake Colby School building in December 2020 in Saranac Lake. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Cerbone)

SARANAC LAKE — The Saranac Lake Board of Education unanimously voted to sell the school district’s Lake Colby School building Wednesday night.

The bid to purchase the building at 26 Trudeau Road is for $184,250, district Superintendent Diane Fox said after an executive session at Wednesday night’s board meeting.

“We do not anticipate a need to reopen that building,” Fox said. “At this point we see it better to be back for community use or individual use.”

District officials will not yet say who is buying the building, as it is still under contract.

“We do not identify the purchaser while the sale is being finalized,” Fox wrote in an email.

She did, however, say they were looking for a certain type of buyer.

“When we sold Lake Clear (School) we wanted to make sure that we were selling it to a buyer who would be good for the community, and we certainly kept that in mind also while looking at our offers for Lake Colby (School),” Fox said. The district sold the former Lake Clear School to Ampersand Biosciences for $132,000 in July 2018.

Fox said both the potential buyer and the district would like to see the sale move along quickly.

The district has put a lot of money into the building through capital projects, Fox said, adding that the rent revenue has not been enough to cover it. She said the district will have to pay back any outlying capital funds to the state.

The district currently rents the property to two preschool day care facilities: Children’s Corner, run by the Adirondack Arc, and Head Start.

Deborah Seeley, a teaching assistant with Children’s Corner, said it will leave the building by Feb. 1.

“It’s going to be a bummer,” she said. “I’m going to miss it. This is a great playground.”

She said since enrollment currently only includes a handful of kids, Children’s Corner may consolidate with its other site in Tupper Lake. She said some teachers there may lose their jobs as a result.