Judge lets School Board pay to move bleachers
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VILLE PLATTE — A federal judge has given approval to the Evangeline Parish School Board to spend up to $28,500 to pay for the cost of moving bleachers from Kinder to Pine Prairie High School.
Superintendent Toni Hamlin on Wednesday night said she and Board President Wayne Dardeau met with U.S. District Court Judge Tucker Melancon last week and that Melancon OK’d the request to lift a spending freeze.
The bleachers are being donated by the Allen Parish School Board to Pine Prairie. It would have cost about $400,000 to construct new bleachers.
The School Board is under a spending freeze on any construction project outside of Ville Platte High until funds are found to build a new Ville Platte High School.
The board will attempt in July, for a second time in less than a year, to pass a bond issue to construct a new Ville Platte High School. A similar vote failed in October by 299 votes.
In other business, Hamlin reported on two recent school break-ins. One burglary occurred at Chataignier Elementary, where two computers were taken.
A second burglary, in Pine Prairie, was unusual in that burglars walked away with a table, a commercial coffee pot and a flower arrangement.
In other action the board approved spending up to $24,000 in tuition fees for teachers who want to return to college to earn a master’s degree to teach dual enrollment courses at Ville Platte High’s Magnet School.
Junior and seniors at the school can earn up to 24 college credit courses through LSU at Eunice.
Superintendent Toni Hamlin on Wednesday night said she and Board President Wayne Dardeau met with U.S. District Court Judge Tucker Melancon last week and that Melancon OK’d the request to lift a spending freeze.
The bleachers are being donated by the Allen Parish School Board to Pine Prairie. It would have cost about $400,000 to construct new bleachers.
The School Board is under a spending freeze on any construction project outside of Ville Platte High until funds are found to build a new Ville Platte High School.
The board will attempt in July, for a second time in less than a year, to pass a bond issue to construct a new Ville Platte High School. A similar vote failed in October by 299 votes.
In other business, Hamlin reported on two recent school break-ins. One burglary occurred at Chataignier Elementary, where two computers were taken.
A second burglary, in Pine Prairie, was unusual in that burglars walked away with a table, a commercial coffee pot and a flower arrangement.
In other action the board approved spending up to $24,000 in tuition fees for teachers who want to return to college to earn a master’s degree to teach dual enrollment courses at Ville Platte High’s Magnet School.
Junior and seniors at the school can earn up to 24 college credit courses through LSU at Eunice.
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