News File Photo The Alpena Public Schools property on Pinecrest Street, previously the location of Alternative Choices for Educational Success Academy, is pictured in this file photo.

ALPENA — Alpena Public Schools will hold on to the property on Pinecrest Street, where its former alternative high school was located, for now.

APS Board of Education Treasurer Ned Heath, who also serves on the Finance Committee, said the committee on Wednesday decided it would table to a later date any decisions to put the property out for bid.

Heath said the finance committee on Wednesday saw the documents that would be required in order to put the property out for bid.

“We decided to table it right now, mainly because we’re using it for storage and things like that right now and there’s a lot of things in there that are going to be repurposed for other schools,” he said.

Heath said district officials don’t want people coming walking through the building when it’s packed with items the school district will need over the next couple of months.

“We just kind of decided it’s being useful to us right now and we don’t want to rush that process of using it as storage and then maybe having to get out of there before we’re done with it, so we’re just going to wait for the time being,” he said.

Superintendent Dave Rabbideau said on Wednesday district officials had an appraiser come out to do an appraisal of the building, but the appraiser didn’t think anyone would be interested in purchasing the building. Rabbideau said the appraiser believed there would be more interest in the land and the location.

“He said he would be happy to do that, but really, how you attain the value of all of it is by putting it out to bid and seeing what people come back with as far as price,” Rabbideau said.

Rabbideau earlier this year announced Alternative Choices for Educational Success Academy would relocate to its own location on the Alpena High School campus.

The transition was primarily a financial decision, Rabbideau previously said, as the expense of running the program at the Academy’s Pinecrest Street location was outpacing the revenue. Additionally, enrollment in the program has shrunk to about a third of what it was in 2011.