The DCSB just handed a building over to a buyer that has no plan, no timeline, and a contractual escape hatch if they change their mind.
That is not a sale. That is a maybe, dressed up in paperwork.
Meanwhile the board has nowhere to go. No backup site. No ready alternative.
Just the comforting knowledge that they are allowed to take as long as three years to figure out what happens next.
Three years of limbo for a public asset, while the other side can walk whenever the numbers stop looking friendly.
A school board is supposed to protect capacity and continuity. Instead it has locked itself into a deal where the buyer holds the option and the public holds the risk.
If the company stays, fine. If it does not, the board is the one scrambling, late, and still free to deliberate at its own leisure.
That is not prudence. That is an exit clause for one party and a three-year shrug for everyone else.