School board to meet in new old office
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January 14, 2014 |
The Boundary County School Board will meet
tonight at 6 p.m. for its first meeting of the
year, and they'll be meeting once again in the
old school district office at 7188 Oak Street,
in newly refurbished offices in a building that
has seen several uses over the past few years.
School administration moved from the building in
2005 so as not to jeopardize "rural school"
funding for Evergreen School. To qualify as a
rural school, which brings in additional state
funding, a school has to be located at least 15
miles from the district's administration office,
and Evergreen is just under.
The board decided to move the district office to
the high school, and for awhile the old
administration building was home to the Bonners
Ferry Senior Center, then it was converted to
house Riverside School until the alternative
high school was closed last year.
Not long after the move, Evergreen Elementary
was closed, a new high school was built and the
old-old high school, which then held the junior
high, was closed and middle school students
moved into the old high school.
The district last year considered selling the
old admin building, but after an appraisal was
deemed too low, the board late last year decided
to retain the building and restore it as both
the administration and technology building so as
to free up much-needed space at the middle
school.
After some remodeling, those offices moved in
over the Christmas break, and everyone thus far
seems to like the new arrangements. The spaces
vacated are now being used by students, and
school administrators are all in one building
with considerably more room.
The entire move, from refurbishing the building,
adding new offices and the move itself, cost
$36,142, paid for from a portion of Fund 240,
allowed by the state legislature for one time
facility expenditures fitting a strict criteria
the move qualified for. |
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