The park is considered a Keystone Opportunity Expansion Zone as well as a Keystone Innovation Zone. When a park is labeled a KOEZ and a KIZ the park has tax exemption status for a period of time as well as equipment purchasing power.

The park’s tax exemption status was supposed to expire by 2015 but with recent difficulties in acquiring tenants for the land the school is expected to extend the deadline to 2025.

School board members speculated the difficulty in finding tenants was related to the proposed Interstate 80 tolling, which was recently shut down by the Federal Highway Administration.

Clarion Area Superintendent George White said the school district would still receive transfer taxes and when tenants do move to the property the school district can expect new families to relocate to the area bringing additional property tax revenue.

“Without these incentives the land’s just out there and we’re mowing it,” White said.

School board member Ron Perry questioned if developers were trying to obtain technology based businesses for the property.

“There was a focus on technology,” Funk said.

Funk added he knows the Trinity Point developers are marketing to a wide variety of tenants. Funk explained there was an expectation the partnership with Clarion University and its biotechnology center would yield similar businesses.

White said he knows developers are working hard to bring businesses to the area but “it hasn’t happened.”

Trinity Point at Monroe is located at exit 62 in Williamsburg near the Pennsylvania State Police Barracks.

The park also will be home to the new PSP Northwest Consolidated Dispatch Center .

Also the school board is expected to:

Accept extra curricular resignations.

Hire a business for snow removal services.

Accept one resignation.

Approve the daily substitute list.

Approve conference requests.

Appoint personnel to the cafeteria.