Times Observer file photo The city’s Blighted Property Review Committee tabled action against the former East St. School until next year after hearing an update on the status of the property from the current owner.

The City of Warren’s Blighted Property Review Committee tabled action against three properties — including the former East St. School — while approving a blight declaration against a property located on Prospect St. during a Thursday meeting.

The East St. School on Third Ave. was last occupied in the 1980s, according to information provided by city staff at the meeting. It’s also been through the blighted property process before.

The current owner, Robert Huck, told the committee that he’s taken down one chimney and has to rent a lift to reach the other. He said his plan is to demolish the building down the roofline on his own, at which point, he said, it becomes more affordable to hire a firm to demolish the main structure.

Randy Rossey, director of the city’s codes and planning department, said the structure currently presents no danger but that’s “not to say that can’t change over the course of the winter. As of right now, no.”

The commission tabled a blight declaration until the June 2022 meeting.

Action against the property at 820 Carbon Place was tabled to March while a declaration against 1022 Spring St. was tabled until February.

The committee did pass a blight declaration against 306 Prospect St. Rossey said the structure is uninhabitable, has no utilities and is owned by a limited liability company out of North Carolina.

“Any type of correspondence with the LLC has gone unanswered,” he said, suggesting that the “best we can say… it appears the LLC has walked away from the property.”

Department of Public Works Director Mike Holtz said DPW crews went in and cleaned up debris at the property a few months ago.

“It’s definitely a demo property,” he said. “Cats are in there. Birds are in there. It looks like the roof you can see through.”

Rossey said almost all of the surrounding neighborhood is in good shape and said it could be a “service” to that neighborhood “to take some sort of action.”