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Live coverage: School board meeting

Billings School District 2 trustees will discuss the future of Rimrock Elementary School and present Superintendent Terry Bouck’s evaluation.

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There's talk of using Lincoln Center as a swing school for the remodeling at McKinley and Broadwater. #SD2

by Rob Rogers via twitter 4/23/2013 12:12:17 AM
There's talk of using Lincoln Center as a swing school for the remodeling at McKinley and Broadwater. #SD2

by Rob Rogers via twitter 4/23/2013 12:12:17 AM
Lincoln Center could do about 12 classrooms? I think facilities director Lew Anderson just said that. #SD2

by Rob Rogers via twitter 4/23/2013 12:14:38 AM
Lincoln Center could do about 12 classrooms? I think facilities director Lew Anderson just said that. #SD2

by Rob Rogers via twitter 4/23/2013 12:14:38 AM
Bouck now gives a report on the school safety planning meeting he and law enforcement officials had last week: http://bit.ly/109Zwnd #SD2

by Rob Rogers via twitter 4/23/2013 12:16:35 AM
Talk turns to the surveys that will go out this summer to gauge the community's feelings on the bonds #SD2 wants to go after this fall.

by Rob Rogers via twitter 4/23/2013 12:26:41 AM
The important thing a professional survey will do is to get #SD2 "statistically valid results."

by Rob Rogers via twitter 4/23/2013 12:28:20 AM
The survey's target population will be voters in the elem district. And the survey's sample size will give results a 3% margin of error.

by Rob Rogers via twitter 4/23/2013 12:31:23 AM
Board gives the greenlight to go ahead with the creating the survey process and moving forward. #SD2

by Rob Rogers via twitter 4/23/2013 12:40:03 AM
Best practices is to have a site picked out in time to run a bond this fall, Bouck says. It's important to taxpayers, he says. #SD2

by Rob Rogers via twitter 4/23/2013 2:14:56 AM
#SD2 board makes the final decision on the site. They vote on it, Kathy says, not some other group or committee or administrator. #SD2

by Rob Rogers via twitter 4/23/2013 2:19:20 AM
The cost to bring in the trainers is $3500. Kathy says the district has spent nearly $1million on schools that are now closed. #SD2

by Rob Rogers via twitter 4/23/2013 2:20:24 AM
That small expenditure on training will help #SD2 avoid spending $1million on poorly planned projects.

by Rob Rogers via twitter 4/23/2013 2:21:25 AM
Any purchase of land by the district has to be approved by voters, Leo Hudetz tells the board. #SD2

by Rob Rogers via twitter 4/23/2013 2:23:14 AM
So, to recap, a new school site has to approved by board. Purchase of the site has to be approved by voters. #SD2

by Rob Rogers via twitter 4/23/2013 2:24:22 AM
Lew Anderson, facilities director, is seeking permission from the board to go talk to some landowners to feel them out on selling. #SD2

by Rob Rogers via twitter 4/23/2013 2:30:18 AM
He'll work the city and the county to identify potential sites. #SD2

by Rob Rogers via twitter 4/23/2013 2:30:49 AM
School site discussion is over and now talk turns to the budget. #SD2

by Rob Rogers via twitter 4/23/2013 2:32:40 AM
Pam (half) jokes that paying trustees would create competitive school board races. #SD2

by Rob Rogers via twitter 4/23/2013 2:38:09 AM
Money, at least, for professional development might be a good investment, she says. #SD2

by Rob Rogers via twitter 4/23/2013 2:38:29 AM
Trustees now talk about what's happening at the legislature. #SD2

by Rob Rogers via twitter 4/23/2013 3:06:19 AM
Brenda Koch and Kathy Olsen give a report on implementing alternative standards in the district. #SD2

by Rob Rogers via twitter 4/23/2013 3:09:48 AM
If the board approves, they have to sell OPI on the move. #SD2

by Rob Rogers via twitter 4/23/2013 3:10:12 AM
There it is kids, the board votes to approve the alternative standards plan. Next stop, OPI. #SD2

by Rob Rogers via twitter 4/23/2013 3:24:14 AM
"@RobRogersBG: Next stop, OPI. #SD2" Let's hope they approve since all our eggs are in this basket!

by Lynde Roberts via twitter 4/23/2013 3:28:27 AM
The board now tackles Bouck's evaluation. #SD2

by Rob Rogers via twitter 4/23/2013 3:28:36 AM
Board decided to give Terry its evaluation without the names of the specific trustees removed from the comments they made. It's anonymous.

by Rob Rogers via twitter 4/23/2013 3:34:31 AM