GALVESTON — Families displaced by Hurricane Ike and staying at a new shelter at Scholes International Airport will not be living at the Galveston Health and Racquet Club after all.

City Manager Steve LeBlanc announced during Thursday’s council meeting that single people staying at the shelter would sleep in a tent, similar to the ones set up by the Red Cross behind Alamo Elementary School. Families would be staying in part of the health club, he said.

But the club’s owners never reached an agreement with the state to rent the facility, and by Friday, state officials had decided to keep everyone together in the tent shelter.

On Monday, LeBlanc said he was just repeating what state officials told him.

“In shelter meetings on Thursday with the state, I was informed that the Galveston Health and Racquet Club would be a part of the shelter plan,” LeBlanc said in a prepared statement issued through Alicia Cahill, city spokeswoman.

“However, on Friday, I learned that the racquet club was no longer involved in the negotiations with the state and would not be participating in the shelter at the airport.”

LeBlanc made the announcement about the shelter at the state’s request, Cahill said.

Monday’s explanation was the second in two weeks LeBlanc has issued saying state officials had given him inaccurate information.

On Oct. 17, LeBlanc said most of the people staying at the shelter were not from Galveston. An official count a week later showed that only 18 of the shelter’s 350 residents were not Galvestonians.

LeBlanc said state and federal officials had given him bad information.

Although state officials did tour the racquet club Thursday evening, they decided another option would be better, said Bryce Oliveira, a manager at the club. The club lacked space for that many people, he said.

About 355 people moved from the old shelter to the airport facility Sunday. San Antonio-based Baptist Child and Family Services is operating the shelter, under a contract with the state.