JOPLIN, Mo. -- Joplin school officials are looking for a new home for the district's administrative offices, which were displaced by the May 2011 tornado.

The administration offices have been housed in a former Missouri Department of Transportation office since the district's building was severely damaged by the tornado.

The Joplin Globe reported the lease on that building ends in May.

Immediately after the tornado, the state leased the closed building for $1 a year. But the lease was increased to $1,000 a month in recent months, and superintendent C.J. Huff says the district can't afford that rate. The state says it will honor the lease until next May but will be marketing the building.

Huff said a committee looking for places for the administrative offices has not found any possibilities yet.