Butler School District officials today are inspecting Broad Street Elementary School and working with the state Department of Education in hopes of having students return there Monday.

Butler Mayor Tom Donaldson said this afternoon that he expected Broad Street School to reopen on Monday.

That includes the city issuing an occupancy permit and changing the traffic pattern near the school.

He also said that the city's code enforcement staff was going through the school to assure that it is ready to host students.

In an emergency meeting Monday night, the school board asked district officials to make efforts to secure the proper permits to have students from Summit Township Elementary School use the vacant Broad Street building during the ongoing water crisis.

William Pettigrew, head of the Summit project team, said Tuesday afternoon that efforts were moving along to allow the building to be used.

Maintenance staff from the district were at the building Tuesday doing inspections to ensure that the building would be acceptable to use.

Assistant superintendent of secondary schools Brian Slamecka is in charge of efforts to get Broad Street up and running.

The building has been vacant since the end of the 2014-15 school year when the district consolidated, which includes desks and other furnishings.

“My understanding is that building is empty,” Pettigrew said.

Students were back at Summit Township Elementary School last Thursday after a two-day cancellation, but the district announced late Monday night that water testing had turned up E. coli bacteria in untreated well water. The water inside the building, treated with chlorine, did not contain E. coli, but the district was required by the state Department of Environmental Protection to inform the public and take action to correct the problem.

Water to the building's sinks and water fountains has been shut off since Jan. 19 because the water had tested for high levels of lead and copper in August.