BUTLER TWP — The Butler School Board on Thursday delayed voting on the sale of the closed Broad Street Elementary School to the Arc of Butler County until at least August.

The Arc had made a second offer to buy the building for $400,000.

Previously, the Arc, which serves disabled people, had an agreement to buy the school for $475,007 which was approved by the board in November. But the newly seated board overturned that decision in December and requesting a review of the district consolidation.

On Thursday board member Neil Convery asked the board to vote in August, allowing time for for-profit businesses to put in offers for the building.

“I think what I’d like the board to consider is making a decision come the second meeting in August,” Convery said. “We could give time over the next month and a half for a for-profit offer.”

Board President Nina Teff agreed with Convery, saying that is why the board did not vote Thursday on Arc’s offer.

The Arc is a nonprofit organization and would not pay taxes on the building, which some board members are opposed to, along with Mayor Tom Donaldson.

At a city council meeting in March, Donaldson said, “I’m adamantly opposed to any nonprofit, tax-exempt organization that is not for the betterment of the city purchasing that school.”

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 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. Broad Street’s average appraised market value is $456,500.

Previous bids for the school included $150,000 from the Center for Community Resources, and J.M. Beatty Furniture submitted an initial bid of $530,000 and then lowered it to $400,000. That bid was rejected by the board in March.

The school board’s next meeting will be at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 8.