In a deal that would protect its borders, Dublin schools plans to transfer land in the OSU airport and any taxes from that land to the Columbus school district. In return, Dublin schools would stop making payments to Columbus schools, and Columbus schools would pledge not to seek to annex other Columbus land that Dublin schools now serves.

In a deal that would protect its borders, Dublin schools plans to transfer land at the Ohio State University airport and any taxes from that land to the Columbus school district.

In return, Dublin schools would stop making payments to Columbus schools after 2017, and Columbus schools would pledge not to seek to annex other Columbus land that Dublin schools now serves. That would settle which district serves students in neighborhoods such as Olde Sawmill that are in Columbus, but are now served by Dublin schools.

�We are extremely happy for the thousands of Dublin City Schools residents who live in the City of Columbus, who now have peace of mind the issue of district boundaries is now closed and our boundaries are permanent,� Dublin school board president Lynn May said in a statement on the district's website.

The Dublin Board of Education is to vote to move ahead with the agreement on Saturday morning. It would end the 1986 Win-Win agreement between Dublin City Schools and Columbus City Schools. Last week, Groveport Madison schools also reached a separate agreement with Columbus schools. There are seven other suburban districts in the Win-Win agreement.

Columbus schools is in agreement with Dublin, Columbus City Schools spokesman Scott Varner said. "It's been a product of good faith negotiation between our district and the team in Dublin."

In a statement posted today on Dublin schools' website, Superintendent Todd Hoadly said: "I am grateful to Columbus Supt. Dr. Dan Good and his team for working with us on a solution that allows us both to focus our energies on students.�

The Dublin school board will meet Saturday to approve a resolution allowing its superintendent to give written notice to all 10 Win-Win school districts that it is exercising its option under the agreement to pull out. It also will extend a proposed memorandum of understanding to the Columbus school board for a new agreement:

�Dublin will continue to pay Columbus schools the $1.15 million a year it owes through 2017.

�Dublin will offer transfer Ohio State University's Don Scott Field into Columbus schools. Columbus City Schools "shall determine in good faith by June 1, 2021, whether this area is likely to be commercially developable within a reasonable period of time." If it is, the two districts would "work together to take steps necessary to secure the necessary approvals for the transfer of the Don Scott Territory to" Columbus City Schools.

Ohio State Trustees will consider placing 57.7 acres near Sawmill and West Case roads on the market at their meeting on June 3.

Last June, Ohio State officials said they plan to keep at least 1,000 acres of the 1,300-acre airport property as an airport, according to ThisWeek newspapers. They said the other 300 acres could be developed. The university currently pays little or no taxes on the airport property south of Rt. 161 and east of Sawmill Road, but if the land were developed commercially, the new owners would begin paying taxes.

Dublin Board President Lynn May said the terms have already been agreed to by Dublin and Michael B. Coleman, the former Columbus mayor who is Columbus schools lead negotiator.

"They are of the same understanding," May said. "We have an agreement in concept."

However, Columbus board President Gary Baker described negotiations as "just ongoing."

"Everybody will continue working in good faith," Baker said. "Everybody is looking for regional stability.�

The memorandum of understanding states that its "terms are not binding" until a formal agreement is reached, and that both sides would work cooperatively with the state Board of Education, which must approve transfers of parcels between districts, to gain that approval.

May said that Dublin finalized the agreement conceptually on Monday and sent it to Coleman, who wrote up the language in the memorandum. The main contacts that drafted the agreement were Dublin Superintendent Tood Hoadley and Columbus Superintendent Dan Good, bouncing ideas off each other, May said.

"I know they know about it," May said.

On Monday, the Columbus Board of Education allowed Groveport Madison School District to pay 60 percent of what it currently pays the urban district for Win-Win and signaled it was open to eventually renegotiating the accord with eight other suburban districts, including Dublin, with the aim of making boundaries permanent.