Equipment for Humboldt’s new school track was approved for purchase at Monday night’s USD 258 board of education meeting. A CANDIDATE forum, including those running for school board, will begin at 6:30 p.m. March 21, at the Humboldt Public Library.
Lou’s Sporting Goods, Fremont, Neb., won the bid to provide a pole vault kit at $13,739; a high jump pit for $14,013, and a combination of hurdles, starting blocks, and a discus cage for $18,869.
They also approved paying $117,000 to Quality Structures, Inc., Richmond, to build a new multi-purpose building at the new sports complex that will include restrooms, a concession stand, locker rooms and a room for officials. It will be 56 feet by 162 feet in size.
In an effort to expand parking at the high school, KB Criss, superintendent of schools, said the proposed detention pond along 11th and Cherokee Street might not need be so big and new plans drawn by architects with Landplan Engineering, Lawrence, show lots that can accommodate up to 117 parking stalls or another with 89 parking stalls. The current parking lot can accommodate 57 vehicles.
The board approved travel to three or four locations by a team of administrators and educators to inspect their One-to-One technology programs that Humboldt plans to implement next year. The program uses digital textbooks.
The contracts of Criss, Kay Bolt, elementary and middle school principal, and John Johnson, high school principal, were extended one year.
Jeremy Weilert was appointed middle school track coach and Jeff Wilkerson as high school golf coach.
The resignation of Molly Wrestler, a para-professional at the elementary school, was approved.
Parent-teacher conferences are this week, Johnson reminded administrators. In a departure from the past, the conferences will be in the Community Field House for middle school and high school students, instead of in teachers’ individual classrooms.
“It might be noisier,” Johnson said, “But we think it will make it an easier process for parents.”
Bolt said 16 new students have enrolled in Humboldt Elementary since Christmas.
USD 258 buys equipment for sports complex
