A proposed lease agreement between Amphitheater Public Schools and the Arizona State Schools for the Deaf and Blind would have ASDB pay $1.3 million a year to lease the Copper Creek Elementary School site in Oro Valley.
That sum, paid to Amphi in monthly installments of $109,182 in the first year, would escalate by 3% annually through a 5-year contract. In the fifth year, ASDB’s annual base rate would reach $1.43 million a year, or $119,306 a month, according to an agreement presented to the Amphi school board for its approval on Tuesday, Jan. 27.
ASDB would pay all utility fees on the campus, located at 11620 North Copper Spring Trail in Oro Valley, to include electricity, gas, water, sewer, communications, telephone, data, trash removal and custodial services for the premises, the lease reads…