The Thompson school board will vote during its Wednesday board meeting on a plan to create a Family Center at Stansberry and also will hear plans for choosing new mascots for Loveland High and Bill Reed Middle School.
The Board of Education will meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday. On its agenda is a vote to establish a Family Center, which Cheryl Cook, federal programs administrator, described at the Sept. 2 board meeting as a “central one-stop shop for families and students.”
To be located in the Early Childhood Center at Stansberry, 407 E. 42nd St., the family center will feature resources for district students and their families. These include a technology center with computer and internet access, a lending library, connections to community resources, parent education opportunities, and a food and basic needs pantry.
Also planned is a children’s area for youngsters while their families access the different resources.
The district will staff the center with employees from the Families Partnering in Education program and will cover the costs from existing sources, including some money from a program to help homeless students and $5,000 from federal coronavirus funding. One-time costs include furniture and technology, and ongoing costs include staffing and supplies.
Overall, the venture will cost about $45,000, according to information given to the board.
Cook said the district will partner with nonprofits such as KidsPak to provide the food and basic needs pantry.
“We have a team of really dedicated people who are ready to make this a reality for us,” Cook said at the Sept. 2 board meeting, which was the first time the family center was presented to the school board. At that time, she anticipated some level of the center could be open within 30 days.
“This will be hugely popular,” Pam Howard, school board member, said at the previous meeting.
The vote on establishing the family center is included in the consent agenda, which is a list of items approved together with one vote and without further discussion.
School board members previously decided to do away with the Native American mascots at Bill Reed Middle School and Loveland High School and asked principals of those schools to work with students, stakeholders and community members to choose a new mascot for each school.
Arnold Jahnke and Todd Ball, principals of the middle and high school respectively, are scheduled to share with the board how and when that will occur. Their report was included Sunday on the online agenda, but the documents provided did not offer any advance details.
A link to the online school board meeting will be posted at thompsonschools.org.
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