ROCK SPRINGS – The Rock Springs High School graduation date was tabled at the last Sweetwater County School District No. 1 after parents raised concerns about moving it from the traditional Saturday to a weekday night. On Monday, the proposal will be back in front of the board.

The new proposal the board will discuss and take action on will be to move RSHS graduation to Saturday, June 6 at 10 a.m. at Tiger Stadium. The new proposal states seniors will still be concluding their year in the same fashion. Senior finals will be during the week of May 25 while the last day for seniors will be May 28. The Renaissance send off rally will take place on May 29.

The reason the administration at RSHS originally changed graduation was because state soccer would be using both the RSHS field and the Rock Springs Junior High fields. Parents spoke to the board during the August meeting which prompted the board to table the proposal to take a better look at other options available.

On Sept. 3, a parent meeting took place at RSHS to discuss the date. Administration said there were roughly 100 people in attendance and through a very collaborative process, it was decided to have graduation on June 6.

The board will take action on the proposal on Monday at 7 p.m. at the Central Administration Building.

Personnel

The board will also vote on several resignations as well as a few new hires.The first resignation is Kelsey English, second-grade instructor at Northpark. Kelly Keil, sixth-grade teacher at Eastside also submitted her resignation. The next resignation is Renee Muije, family and consumer science teacher at Rock Springs Junior High. The final resignation comes from the Central Administration Building as Chief Information Officer Chase Hafner has submitted his resignation.

New hires the board will take action on include Lara Lehman for a one-year contract as second grade instructor at Northpark, former director of food services Donna Toly for a one-year contract to fill the family and consumer science position at RSJH, Erin Wagner on a one-year contract as the Title One Instructor at Lincoln, Donna Audevart on a one-year contract for the first grade teacher position at Lincoln, Kevin Guymon on a one-year contract as the Title One instructor at Desert View, Nikki Peppers on a one-year contract to fill a resource teacher opening at Desert View and finally Samantha Gardner on a one-year contract as the substitute coordinator and trainer.

Naming of the new K-4 building

Recently SWCSD No. 1 recently had a competition asking residents what they would like the new name of the new K-4 school to be. The new K-4 school is on the Bureau of Land Management property by Sage and Pilot Butte.

Entries were then turned over to the naming committee which met on Aug. 20 to pick a winner. The committee was presented 55 names from 72 separate submissions. Names were gathered through two sources, online submission forms through the district website or handwritten forms dropped of at the CAB.

The naming form was designed by Natalie Mikesell, secretary at Sage Elementary and principal Rick Edwards. The forms were created by Lennie Lew, Dustin Jones and Timmy Lew of the technology department with the support of Chase Hafner.

When all forms were prepared and ready, school messenger calls went out to all K-6 families in the district inviting them to participate in submitting names. Families were informed of the different routes to submitting a name.

Assistant Superintendent Kelly McGovern was supportive of using school messenger and Courtney Mikkelsen created and sent out the call. The invitation went out on July 29 and the window for submitting names closed on Aug. 13.

On Monday, the winning name will be announced and voted on by the school board.

Presentations

There will be three presentation for the board on Monday. The first will be a summer school update by Kris Cundall, Kenneith Dietz and Tina Johnson. Wanda Maloney will give a presentation about accountability and Dan Selleroli will give the board a facilities update.

Miscellaneous

The board will have a workshop at 6 p.m. at the CAB before meeting in regular session at seven. The workshop will be an accreditation update. There is also an executive session on the agenda to discuss personnel issues. After the executive session, the board will take action in regular session on an addendum to Superintendent Mathew Neal’s contract.