The Wiscasset School Department will clear out of the Wiscasset Primary School building by Sept. 1, School Committee Chairman Steve Smith said Jan. 22. Everything that is going to Wiscasset Middle School, where primary school students will attend beginning next fall, will be taken out over the summer, Smith said.

Some time after the move, the department can turn the building over to the town, Smith said.

“Then they can decide whether to market it or what they’re going to do with it,” Smith said at Thursday’s committee meeting less than two months after voters backed the panel’s decision to close the school.

Interim Superintendent of Schools Lyford Beverage has projected the consolidation into the middle school will save hundreds of thousands of dollars over a three-school department. Seventh and eighth grades are slated to move to Wiscasset High School; the middle school will serve pre-Kindergarten through grade six.

On Friday, Smith said there is no date yet for the town to receive the building from the department. That still needs to be figured out, but he wanted to announce the Sept. 1 clear-out, which is the first step in that process, he said.

Wiscasset selectmen will discuss the building’s future at their Feb. 17 meeting, Selectmen’s Chairman Pam Dunning confirmed. It’s the first of what will probably be many discussions on it over the next couple of months, Dunning writes in an email response to the Wiscasset Newspaper. As always with the board’s agenda items, selectmen will take any public comment after they have talked, according to Saturday’s email.

For her part, Dunning would like to see the building go on the market and get back on the tax rolls, making income for the town, she said in a telephone interview Friday.

That was the most common preference she heard from residents when the town was looking at closing the school, Dunning said.