ROTTERDAM — Dale Monini was never a fan of his neighbor across the street.

For more than a year, the Draper Avenue resident says he contended with traffic, garbage blowing onto his lawn and an ever-changing staff at the International Charter School of Schenectady. Monini said he braced for trouble when the school moved there, but never envisioned the level of problems his neighborhood would face.

“I knew it was going to be chaos over there,” he said Thursday. “It was worse.”

Now the State University’s board of trustees has ordered the charter school to close at the end of this school year, citing weak test scores.

With the charter school closing, Monini and other neighbors are urging the town to exercise control over the former Draper School building. A half-dozen critics attended the Town Board’s agenda meeting Thursday, angry about developments since the school occupied the building in June 2006.

“Nothing has happened over there that was promised,” Monini said.

He complained to the school three times about an improperly shielded halogen light that lit up his home at night, but only received a response after hiring a lawyer.

“I had to spend money to get them to do it,” he said.

Others complained of charter school staffers smoking cigarettes on their property, despite complaints. Some said the school seldom bothered to clear snow from their sidewalks and that garbage from school grounds began to choke adjacent streets.

Rotterdam Supervisor Steve Tommasone said the town will compile a “refresher packet” containing documents produced before the charter school was approved by the Planning Board. He said board members should be reminded of the problems before considering a new tenant for the building, which is owned by the charter school.

“We’re going to see what measures are appropriate for the town of Rotterdam to take to appropriately address the concerns of the neighborhood,” he said.

Meanwhile, charter school administrators are exploring their options, said school spokesman Saleem Cheeks. The school owes up to $7 million to creditors and will explore whether to lease, sell or turn over the Draper Avenue property to First Niagara, the bank holding much of the school’s debt.

“These matters are all ongoing,” he said Friday.

Cynthia Proctor, a spokeswoman for the Charter Schools Institute, a support organization, said the school will prepare a closure plan in the coming weeks. She said the school will need to deposit $75,000 in a trust so that there is enough money to cover legal fees associated with the closure.

“That process is really just beginning, in earnest, next week,” she said.

But Monini said neighbors want assurances the property won’t be used for another school, as some have suggested recently. Earlier this week, Schenectady Schools Superintendent Eric Ely indicated the district was exploring using the Draper School for classrooms.

“We just don’t want to see a school there again,” Monini said.

Although agreeing the property is inadequate for a school like ICSS, Tommasone said keeping the building vacant is not a viable option. He suggested the building be returned to its use as a small office building prior to being purchased by the charter school.

“It would be a shame for there not to be a use,” he said. “I do not want to see that building vacant.”