The Long Beach Island Consolidated Board of Education reauthorized its attorney to negotiate the sale of the LBI Grade School on its behalf at its Aug. 17 meeting, despite having no potential buyer to negotiate with at this time.

“We are not selling the school tonight,” board President Colette Southwick said in her opening remarks to a full audience in the LBI School’s media center, a vast difference from July’s meeting, when just three individuals were in attendance.