Place is an eye sore - if the County is not going to do something with it - sell it.
If they do not, they should not say anything about the budget shortfalls.

The old, 'we don't want to sell it because we *might eventually* do something useful with it' line.

They need to sell it. We all saw the articles about the horrific money mismanagement and accounting related bungling that cost the tax payers millions. Seemingly, selling this land would help rectify things.

If the operating principal is to sell off every "eyesore" there's a long list to go through before we get to Adams Stadium. Neither of the two gentlemen below seem to care that the proposal includes a 3,000-seat football / soccer / track stadium — that is currently shared by at least 4 high schools! How and where are you going to replace that? Do either of you know the price tag of a new stadium? (about $15 million) -- or a new high school (about $55 million)? You both are out of your depth. We are all mad at the school system and Brd of Ed. Don't let emotions cloud your judgement.

Each school is already able to host soccer and track (since they already have fields and quarter mile tracks), thus we're only left with the football issue.

We're in tough economic times, made tougher by financial incompetence. I see no need for a new stadium for those that share Adams. Should be possible to hold their games elsewhere, or even work out a deal with a private school with a stadium (eg. Marist, or perhaps even at Decatur stadium).

Every year that we let those buildings crumble, we will lose money on the building value side. Is the hope that the land value alone (minus demolition costs) will someday surpass the land plus building value now? Has anyone projected how many years it might take before that will happen?

I understand Womack's thoughts about it someday being valuable, but that's a good reason for someone to pay a decent price for it right now. We are not in the land investment business here. This is the education business. If it isn't helping education now, hasn't been helping in the recent past and we have no way of proving that it will help education in the future, then sell it. The school system could have avoided a lot of layoffs and kept class sizes lower if that money could have come into play this year.

I'd rather see my tax dollars spent on teachers, media specialists and para-pro's than upkeep for a building sitting empty. Let those other schools use the new Lakeside High stadium or Tucker High. Both are nearby and probably under utilized considering what we've spent to refurbish them.

Lakeside does not have a stadium. Tucker does not have a stadium, nor Druid Hills, nor Cross Keys. Henderson and Shamrock/Druid Hills Middle Schools use Adams as well - six schools share, if not more. They are used for soccer as well as football.

DeKalb County can't use the City of Decatur's property, nor can they use a private school's property. I don't know where any of the posters above got the notion that there was a stadium at any of these other nearby schools. There are practice fields and some have baseball fields. Lakeside has a wonderful baseball field paid for mostly by their booster club. Part of the usefulness of the existing location is the large parking lot at the old high school. Parking is essential for a stadium. I don't believe the old Briarcliff High is crumbling. It has been a frequent movie set in the past years - Adams stadium starred as well. Perhaps we could find out how much money it has rented out for?

A lot of the land behind the stadium is not part of the school. There is a private business and a county swimming pool down the road between the stadium and the former Kittredge ES building that are not owned by DCSS.

@Jim Bob, you want to sell Adams Stadium, which is completely paid for and serviceable, so that we can write (large) checks to The Marist School, one of the wealthiest private schools / student communities in metro Atlanta, for the privilege of using their stadium? That may satisfy your desire to disassemble the public school system, but it will not save tax money over the long haul. Plus, do you seriously think Marist will rent their stadium out so Stephenson, SW DeKalb, Clarkston, etc. can play games there Thur, Fri, and Saturdays? Right...