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Flagler Schools will not sell or lease out the Belle Terre Swim and Racquet Club, School Board members decided in a board workshop June 15.
That left two options: Convert the popular club facility into a K-20 facility potentially with facility-use agreements that would let other community groups use the club or continue operating the property without major changes. We want to have a facility that s going to meet the needs of our community. . That s not just our K-12 kids: It’s everybody.
CHERYL MASSARO, School Board member
The school district has puzzled over how to handle the property for years. Granted to the school district in 1999 when Palm Coast incorporated as a city, the 1979 facility operates at a deficit and needs costly capital improvements.
A pretty setting, but the tennis courts at the Belle Terre Swim and Racquet Club are not likely to survive whatever makeover the club will experience in the coming year. (© FlaglerLive)
The Flagler County School Board will not sell the 43-year-old Belle Terre Swim and Racquet Club it has owned since 1996. It will not lease it, either, and not because it doesn’t wish it could do either: there simply are no buyers nor eligible organizations that could lease the facility with all the constraints that attach to leasing school board property, such as the requirement that the renter is a non-profit and that a proportion of the facility’s time is devoted to district students.