The Crookston School Board met on Monday evening in the Crookston High School Choir/Orchestra room and the board approved moving forward with interviewing two architectural firms for a bus garage project. There were eight architects that expressed interest in the project and Superintendent Jeremy Olson said YHR Partners of Moorhead and ICON in Grand Forks are the two they would like to interview. “We put out RFP’s (requests for proposals) for architectural services and we had several proposals. The two that we are going to interview in the next week or so are YHR Partners and ICON,” said Olson. “During the course of the interviews if we’re not completely satisfied with the direction or the relationship with the two finalists we would move to the next ones. We had several very qualified proposals so we were fortunate.”
Superintendent Olson said they were looking for several things from the architects. “We had several criteria that we looked at including experience, work on similar projects, cost of course was a factor and engineering,” said Superintendent Olson. “Basically, there was a whole list we tried to follow.”
After the school board interviews the two finalists, Superintendent Olson said they will decide which one they one they want to work with. “We will sit down with the finalist and talk to them about our scope, direction and so forth,” said Olson. “We will bring forward some possible models based on what we need. We know we have 18 buses, we need a wash bay, mechanics bay and bring a basic proposal to our bus garage committee. We will have them decide what kind of design, so that is kind of the next step.”
Another topic of discussion was the school year calendar for the 2019-20 and 2020-21 school years. There will be some minor changes to the calendar with the main change at the high school. In the past several school years, the elementary schools started class while the high school had two days of parent-student-teacher days and started classes two days after the elementary schools. That will change next year with the parent-student-teacher meetings moved to the week before school starts at the high school. “We didn’t make any major changes. What we did was moved the parent-student-teacher interview days to from student contact days to non-contact days outside of school. We want to start our kids with instruction, so we moved the interview days to the workshop week. We wanted it to be a nice clean start for everyone. We moved the interview days to the week prior to school starting,” said Olson. “We wanted to get the maximum number of student contact days in while at the same time making sure we have a strong staff development schedule.”
As soon as we receive the school calendars for 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 we will post them to the bottom of the story.
Crookston High School Principal Eric Bubna informed the school board in his weekly report that they are adding two more College in the High School classes with Calculus 2 and Elementary Stats. They will offer up to 16 credits of College in the High School.
School Board member Tim Dufault made a comment that the artwork on the main entrance for the Section 8A Individual wrestling tournament was fantastic and he commended whoever did the work.
The board passed the consent agenda that included approval of the minutes from the February 11 meeting. They approved bills in the amount of $80,955.09, and they approved an employment agreement with Nancy Nottestad, Crookston School District Fiscal Services Director, for 2017-2019.
The next School Board meeting will be Monday, March 25 at 5:00 p.m. at the Crookston High School Choir/Orchestra room.
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