The Lawrence Police Department is not the only local institution awaiting news as to whether a new police headquarters will be built. If the estimated $30 million facility becomes reality, the Lawrence school district could also be affected.

One of four possible locations for a new police headquarters is an approximately 60-acre tract of land owned by Hallmark near the school district’s offices at 110 McDonald Drive. Lawrence Superintendent Rick Doll said Monday that if the city built a new police headquarters on that site, the district could purchase a portion of the land from the city to relocate its maintenance facility and warehouse, now at 146 Maine St., near Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

The district would need to purchase from the city after a sale from Hallmark because Hallmark is not willing to break up the land, Doll said. The district would need between five and eight acres, he said, likely on the north side of its existing lot, to create a new facility.

Doll addressed the school board at its first meeting of the new fiscal year Monday, using the evening as an opportunity to begin discussion of future land use. No action was taken, but plenty was considered. Doll said that the most pressing land issue is the district’s property at 810 West Sixth St., where Pinckney Elementary School sits. Doll said the district has an agreement with the city to use Clinton Park to the west of the school and that it is interested in owning the property either for expansion in 2015 or to increase parking and fire engine access. Doll indicated there could be a possible exchange of land with the city where the district obtains ownership of the Clinton Park area and the city accesses the south portion of the playground at Schwegler Elementary School, 2201 Ousdahl Road, to construct a drainage easement.

Doll also discussed land owned in west Lawrence and the possible future construction of new elementary or middle schools. The district owns property to the west and south of Langston Hughes Elementary School, 1101 George Williams Way, where Doll said enough land exists to add another middle school or even an elementary school. Another property is at 5100 Overland Drive, where a future city park is planned west of Free State High School. That area is also a potential police headquarters. Should it not be chosen, Doll said the city has expressed interest in participating with the district in a school-park combination where the district would purchase eight to 10 of the site’s 20 acres for a school.

Doll also raised the possibility of selling the northwest corner of Holcomb Park that the district owns. He also reminded the board that the district owned about 45 acres at 1480 East 800 Road, a mile west of the Kansas Highway 10 interchange, and about 76 acres at 1703 North 1348 Road, where the South Lawrence Trafficway will soon cut along.