The USD 282 Board of Education held a special meeting Monday night to discuss school facilities.

The floor was opened to anyone wishing to speak and many patrons took the opportunity, expressing many opinions about the board’s recently announced plans regarding the district’s two elementary schools.

In their regular meeting on March 9, the board voted to keep the Severy Elementary School and Moline Elementary Schools open for the 2009-10 school year. Both will have pre-kindergarten classes and kindergarten.

The sixth grade will be moved back to the elementary program after recently being moved to the West Elk High School campus.

On Monday night, the board listened to concerns of patrons then confirmed their previous decision made on March 9.

The board approved the formation of a sub-committee composed of three board members (Robert Wolfe, Casey Smith and Jim Roebuck), three administrators (Pam Leiker, Shirley Hugill and Corey Reese) and two persons knowledgeable about construction (Patrick Perkins and Matt Hilton). This sub-committee will study the West Elk site in Howard and help determine where to place an elementary school and what other changes might be made to the site.

This information would then be sent to the architect.