As some parents pick up the baton to fight the merger of all students and staff of the Island’s major school district into one building next year, that chapter appears to have ended with the Ship Bottom Borough Council’s unanimous approval to execute a site-specific redevelopment agreement for the site of the LBI Grade School.

“We pretty much have the agreement hammered out,” Mayor William Huelsenbeck said at the council’s Nov. 26 meeting, noting the time has come for the “governing body to act.”