The former YWCA of the Greater Triangle building in downtown Raleigh could become a Wake County school.

The school board voted tonight to offer $1 million to the bankruptcy trustee to buy the building on East Hargett Street. The YWCA of the Greater Triangle closed Feb. 29 amid mounting financial woes.

No decision has been made on what would be housed there. But since it's across the street from the Thompson School building that will house the Wake Young Men's Leadership Academy, one option could be to use it for expansion space.

The purchase is still subject to a land appraisal and the approval of the county commissioners.

The Wake County school board unanimously voted tonight to enter into a lease to use part of the campus for the Governor Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh to house a new all-girls school.

Wake will pay $387,840.80 a year to house the Wake Young Women's Leadership Academy. The Council of State also approved the lease today since it involved state property.

Some Morehead parents and staff were unhappy about the lease, feeling the blind students were losing the best spots on campus to Wake. But the deal is supposed to help generate enough money to allow the state to keep the school open.

Wake opted to house all the female students at the Morehead School after negotiations fell through to place some of the students on the campus of William Peace University.