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Trustees approve design for Highland Park, consider moving LPS offices The Lewistown Public Schools Board of Trustees unanimously approved design plans for renovations at Highland Park Elementary at its regular meeting Monday night. The board also heard a proposal to potentially move the LPS district offices from their current location in the Lincoln Building in downtown Lewistown to the Central Montana Education Center and approved a teacher’s request for extended leave. The Highland Park plans include a new room for the school’s library, currently located in a portable building on campus, along with a designated music room that will enable music classes to meet in a set location next year. In response to overwhelming public feedback, the school’s main entrance, currently located along First Avenue West, will also move to provide a safer pickup and drop-off location for students and their families along Hilger Avenue, which sees less traffic. The plan also includes some modifications to administrative and teacher workspaces, and adds internal security doors in case of an emergency. The placement of one such security door is still yet to be finalized following an extensive board discussion. RELATED NEWS: - NYPD: Hat snatcher wanted in Borough Park train assault RELATED NEWS: - NYPD: Hat snatcher wanted in Borough Park train assault close volume_off volume_up Next Stay Auto (225p) 225p 360p Subtitles Off Subtitles EN English LPS Superintendent Thom Peck informed the board he had met with staff from the University of Providence, which currently leases space in the Central Montana Education Center, about the potential of moving the district’s offices from the Lincoln Building to the education center. Peck said both the University and the CMEC board are open to the district moving into the building and sharing space in the event federal regulators approve of the change. Peck said some modifications to the education center would need to take place prior to the move. “The idea would be that we would move out there and would sell this building once all the bond stuff is taken care of. The Education Center is a much more efficient space,” Peck said. “We’re possibly looking at this summer in the design phase and by the time the new central kitchen is built, it would be one and a half or two and half years for us to be out there at that building.” LPS Business Manager Rebekah Rhoades told the board she would provide a financial analysis for the move in the coming months. The board unanimously approved an extended leave request from a certified teacher for the 2024-2025 academic year. The teacher said she wished to take a year-long leave to stay home with her third child and “focus on herself and her family.” Trustee Kris Birdwell said the request was in accordance with the district’s collective bargaining agreement, and was a scenario the board and the Lewistown Education Association had envisioned during their negotiations on the policy. Trustee Whitney Brady argued the district might lose the teacher and opportunities to hire teachers in the future if the board turned down the request. “In light of how difficult the hiring environment is, for educators, if we’re a district that talks the talk about supporting families and supporting kids, we’re going to walk the walk,” Brady said, adding later, “It’s possible we might lose this person if we don’t do something like this, and this is potentially an opportunity for the district to gain a new teacher who serves as a long-term sub, because we have a couple teachers in the district who have started out this way.” In response to a concern from Trustee John Carlson about conveying the district’s expectation that she return to the classroom following extended leave, Peck said the collective bargaining agreement called for dismissal regardless of tenure status. _ Lewistown Public Schools Highland Elementary Renovation and Garfield Classroom Addition Re-Bids in Lewistown, MT.