, they e worked hard, winnsboro mayor roger gaddy says town council gave fomzi a deadline to have a concrete plan in place... the deadline has passed and no plan is set... so gaddy says it's time to demolish the building... roger gaddy: ....", it an eye sore to the neighbors, it an unsafe building and concern is with this building being unsafe structurally sosod, that our responsibility is to the town, that we e got to do something definitive to threat. 13:29 members of fomzi are still trying to get private developers to come in and renovate the old school to be a cultural space for the community.... they say they won't give up on the school they love so much.... pelham lyles : if it gone, we feel mt. zion will be gone 44:54 3 3 the group estimates the renovation costs will be more than 4 milllln dollars.... the mayor says the demolition of the building to turn it into a park will cost just a little more than 100-thousand dollars..group members say a developer is interested in the property.they will discuss future steps at town council's next meeting on february 15... 3 3 a new study finds r

. >> reporter: roger gaddy is a doctor at fairfield medical associates in winnsboro. he's also been the town's mayor for 11 years, and he worries about the tax implications of the walmart closure. >> we have a one-cent added sales tax that the citizens voted on about ten years ago. walmart was probably our biggest contributor of that one-cent sales tax because it was the biggest retail entity we had in the town. >> reporter: gaddy says the loss of the total sales tax, previously paid by the winnsboro walmart, will be substantial. >> walmart leaving is devastating to the community, but we've been here a long time and we're going to be fine without it. and there may be some benefits of not having a walmart here. i would like to think that you would see a revitalization of downtown. you'll see more people shopping downtown. >> reporter: while chamber of commerce president terry vickers shares the mayor's optimism, she says she is still struggling to understand walmart's decision. >> the employee meeting that was called on that thursday morning they thought was going to b