With the LBI Consolidated school board’s decision to develop a plan for merging its entire student body and staff into the LBI Grade School, Ship Bottom officials can now firmly move forward with design plans for a new municipal complex at the existing site between 16th and 17th streets wherethey intersect with the Boulevard.

“It was up in the air – if the LBI School was going to be available. We would have used some portion of it; maybe shift the new building over there,” Mayor William…