LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – Households residing within the Mt. Charleston space might now have a faculty of their yard reopen.
The Clark County Faculty District Board of Trustees is reconsidering its resolution to shut Lundy Elementary Faculty after the constructing sustained heavy harm final 12 months throughout Tropical Storm Hilary.
An agenda posted on CCSD’s web site confirmed trustees will talk about Lundy at a Wednesday board session.
CCSD’s college board voted final August to close down Lundy Elementary. Nonetheless, within the final 4 months, two of the trustees who voted to shut are now not serving. Lola Brooks of District E resigned final week, and Katie Williams three months earlier than that.
“It’s a 60-year-old school. It’s going to have cracks, we just feel we need a real damage report on what the real costs, a real estimate is,” Brenda Talley stated.
Talley is an advocate for protecting the college open and has spoken at a number of college board conferences.
The college has remained closed since Tropical Storm Hilary broken Mt. Charleston in August of 2023.
There’s a dated picture on the college’s entrance that also lists Williams because the trustee representing Lundy. She was the essential vote on Aug. 7 to shut the college.
CCSD trustees vote towards repairing Mt. Charleston-area college
Nonetheless, Williams is now not on the college board. She formally represented District B nevertheless, resigned in September after 8 Information Now reported in March, that she did not attend greater than a dozen conferences in particular person. The report prompted the Clark County District Legal professional to launch an investigation, the place prosecutors discovered Williams was residing in Nebraska.
Former CCSD trustee Williams left Nevada in April, enrolled little one in Nebraska college months earlier than resignation
Nakia Jackson-Hale was appointed to complete the rest of Williams’ time period, and Jackson-Hale positioned the Lundy vote on Wednesday’s agenda for reconsideration.
“We knew we always had three votes then. We expect to have those three votes and then add our new trustee,” Talley stated.
CCSD’s former chief monetary officer Jason Goudie stated on the time it may price $7 million to restore Lundy Elementary.
“We don’t know the actual cost of everything until we get in there,” Goudie stated. “There’s a premium to perform construction up there.”
Final 12 months, Lundy Elementary had an enrollment of 10 college students. Regardless of the low numbers, Talley stated CCSD has a duty to the group right here.
“It’s the district’s responsibility, not the library district. The school district’s to ensure every single student, and that includes those up here, has an equal and equitable opportunity for academic success,” Talley stated.
With Lundy’s closure, households had been zoned to Indian Springs Elementary, which is a 70-minute bus experience a technique, together with stops.
