The Arc of Butler County plans to withdraw its bid for the closed Broad Street Elementary School after the Butler School Board on Thursday delayed voting on the sale until August.

John Link, executive director, said Friday morning that the Arc's board wants to withdraw the bid for the property for $400,000.

“My board of directors is tired of waiting on this,” he said. “We're going to pull our bid. We're done messing around.”

Link said the directors are frustrated and upset, especially since the organization previously had a sales agreement for the school for $475,000 which was approved by the school board in November. However, the newly seated board overturned that decision in December.

“They can't make up their mind,” Link said. “They didn't have this problem selling the other buildings.”

This recent delay only draws out an already lengthy sales process, he said.

The school board has received multiple bids on the Broad Street school, including two from J.M. Beatty Furniture, first at $530,000 and then one for $400,000. The second, lower bid was rejected by the school board in March.

School Board President Nina Teff and board member Neil Convery agreed Thursday that pushing the vote to August would allow time for a for-profit business to put in offers.

As a nonprofit organization, the Arc would not pay taxes on the building. Both the school board and Butler Mayor Tom Donaldson support putting a for-profit business back on the tax roll.

Superintendent Dale Lumley said that the board still hopes a for-profit will make an offer, but he acknowledged the Arc would be a great resource for the community.

“I think the (school) board's trying to do the best for that community,” he said Friday.

Broad Street closed after the district consolidation in the summer of 2015, closing five elementary schools and reopening one, Center Avenue, as an alternative and special education facility. Those closed schools were all for sale.

Meridian and Clearfield sales have been approved by Butler County Judge Michael Yeager. The Oakland school building sale has yet to be approved.

Broad Street is the only school that has not been sold or is the subject of a sales agreement. Its average appraised market value is $456,500.