Big Horn County School District No. 3 is inching closer to demolishing its old elementary school.
The board of trustees last week held a public hearing on the proposed demolition, and no one from the public stepped to the podium to contest the fate of the old school, which has been shuttered since the fall of 2007.
The School Facilities Commission has earmarked money for the demolition, and the public hearing was a requirement that had to be met for the demotion to proceed.
Since the meeting, interim Supt. Roger Clark has met with officials from the Powell school district, who have a demolition project of their own on the table.
“The SFC would really like our districts to work in tandem, in the hopes that doing so will bring cost savings due to the economies of scale,” said Clark in an interview Tuesday. “We’re just in the early stages of talking to them.”
The Powell districts has two windows in which to bring its building down — one is between Nov. 1 and March 8, the other between May 20 and Aug. 10. But the Greybull district is under no time frame, said Clark.
The districts are working to develop a request for proposals, and when that RFP is completed, they will advertise for bidders.
In other business discussed at last week’s school board:
• After emerging from a 45-minute executive session, the board took several actions.
It accepted the request for early retirement that was submitted by Jeri Cooper, the physical education teacher at Greybull Elementary School.
The board also accepted the resignations of Sheryl Winkler, a bus driver, and Rachel Olsen, an elementary special education paraprofessional. To replace Winkler, the board hired Richard Coons. It will advertise for Olsen’s replacement.
In an extracurricular move, the board hired Joe Forcella as the fourth football coach for Greybull Middle School.
Finally, the board followed the superintendent’s recommendation on an extended leave issue.
• Chairman Dave Haller agreed to be the district’s advocate/liaison to the Wyoming School Boards Association.
• The board accepted home-school registrations without discussion.