School board tackles new business
Zach White
The Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees and administrators easily slid back into regular business after two weeks of emergency planning.
At Tuesday’s meeting, the school board started, as it has in the past few months, by recognizing some students for their achievements.
This month’s honorees included All Northwest Honor Choir singers Kaylee Schubert and Shawna Cary and All State Offensive Guard Danny Roe.
“You see around our district ‘a tradition of excellence, ’” Superintendent Andy Carlson said. “I have been asked what that looks like. This is a part of it. ”
The board approved a policy change regarding the placement of a defibrillator in Havre High School, setting the stage for an eventual placement of one in each school.
The Board Performance Assessment forms were handed out to be completed in a week and compiled in the Robins Administration Building to assess.
Carlson presented updates of the district’s schools profiles for 2009 and 2010. He said that the profiles now are a bit long and difficult to understand. He would like to see the profiles simplified or made more “reader-friendly. ”
HHS Athletic Director Dennis Murphy presented the board with the proposed changes to activity-related policies to be looked at during the upcoming Montana High School Association meeting, such as class requirements for activity participants or allowing junior high students into upper-grade activities if there aren’t enough students.
High school administrators, Principal Jerry Vandersloot and Assistant Principal Kipp Lewis, presented results of new disciplinary policies and a bullying study.
Carlson wrapped up the meeting by revisiting the issue of HHS’ locker room renovations, with an updated feasibility study.
Part of the study now includes weight rooms, storage space and the possibility of getting Havre’s wrestling team back in the high school, and out of the building at 2nd Avenue and 2nd Street.
That project would need more funding, as there is currently only enough for just the locker room renovation, which Carlson said is important, as it looks bad, particularly when visiting sports team use the room in its current state.
“Quite honestly, it’s not a facility I’m proud of, ” Carlson said. “We need to take care of it, not just for other schools coming in, but for our own students. ”
The Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees and administrators easily slid back into regular business after two weeks of emergency planning.
At Tuesday’s meeting, the school board started, as it has in the past few months, by recognizing some students for their achievements.
This month’s honorees included All Northwest Honor Choir singers Kaylee Schubert and Shawna Cary and All State Offensive Guard Danny Roe.
“You see around our district ‘a tradition of excellence, ’” Superintendent Andy Carlson said. “I have been asked what that looks like. This is a part of it. ”
The board approved a policy change regarding the placement of a defibrillator in Havre High School, setting the stage for an eventual placement of one in each school.
The Board Performance Assessment forms were handed out to be completed in a week and compiled in the Robins Administration Building to assess.
Carlson presented updates of the district’s schools profiles for 2009 and 2010. He said that the profiles now are a bit long and difficult to understand. He would like to see the profiles simplified or made more “reader-friendly. ”
HHS Athletic Director Dennis Murphy presented the board with the proposed changes to activity-related policies to be looked at during the upcoming Montana High School Association meeting, such as class requirements for activity participants or allowing junior high students into upper-grade activities if there aren’t enough students.
High school administrators, Principal Jerry Vandersloot and Assistant Principal Kipp Lewis, presented results of new disciplinary policies and a bullying study.
Carlson wrapped up the meeting by revisiting the issue of HHS’ locker room renovations, with an updated feasibility study.
Part of the study now includes weight rooms, storage space and the possibility of getting Havre’s wrestling team back in the high school, and out of the building at 2nd Avenue and 2nd Street.
That project would need more funding, as there is currently only enough for just the locker room renovation, which Carlson said is important, as it looks bad, particularly when visiting sports team use the room in its current state.
“Quite honestly, it’s not a facility I’m proud of, ” Carlson said. “We need to take care of it, not just for other schools coming in, but for our own students. ”
