District 2 schedules on board agenda

By Janice Kurbjun
Times staff writer

Carbon County District 2 School Board members plan to vote on school schedules in a 4 p.m. meeting Monday at the Saratoga Middle High School Library.

Before the vote, board members should discuss surveys of students, parents and staff in the district as well as the viewpoints of nearly 30 community members expressed during an open forum at the District 2 central office in Saratoga earlier this week.

“The meeting was scheduled for an hour, but went 45 minutes over,” District 2 Superintendent Bob Gates said. “The place was full. They rotated between liking and not liking the schedule.” He said the viewpoints largely reiterated the findings of last month’s surveys.

Gates said there was much support for Saratoga High School’s four-day schedule and Encampment’s five-day schedule to remain the same. For Saratoga’s elementary school, which is on the four-day schedule, support was split. Few people were present from Hanna, Elk Mountain and Medicine Bow.

“I have no guesses for the outcome of this vote,” Gates said. He expects a lengthy discussion at the Monday meeting.