Kern House Back to District?

While doing a quick search to identify the potential sinkhole at the site of the newly proposed middle school site, I found an article in the Express-Times noting that the school district is not pleased with the Historical Society's desire to lease the Kern Building since it cannot fund the educational center it had purchased the building for.

Read the article here.

The article also notes:

After hearing the school district's displeasure about the plan, the society offered to sell the building back to the school district.

Superintendent Victor Lesky said leasing the building for a large profit was not the school board's intention when it sold the building at a reduced cost.

Maybe the comprise would be to allow the society to lease the building for a specified period of time in order to generate the funds needed to open the center. In that way the building will be preserved historically, the bank gets its desired location for a specified period of time, and the society gets the money it needs to open the center the school district wants them to open.

What do you think? Should a compromise be sought? What should happen to the Kern House if the society can't fund a center?