FIFTH OPENING – The Sitka seine boats Hukilau and Rose Lee pump herring aboard this afternoon at the end of Deep Inlet during the fifth opening in the Sitka Sound sac roe herring fishery. The opening was being held in two locations beginning at 11 a.m. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
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Daily Sitka Sentinel
Keet Play Area Makes Board’s Priorities List
By TOM HESSE
Sentinel Staff Writer
The Sitka School Board officially listed the covered play area at Keet Gooshi Heen a capital improvement priority, at a special meeting Wednesday afternoon.
Board members met briefly in the district office boardroom to approve adding the 26-year-old structure to their capital improvement plan. Placing the facility in the capital improvement plan makes it eligible for funding from the state Department of Education, said board president Lon Garrison.
“It gets us on the list. Where it falls on the list ... we don’t know but you have to get on the list at some point,” Garrison said.
The structure needs a new roof, and parts of the walls and interior structure need to be replaced. District facilities manager Mark Bautista said the building is creeping up on the end of its 30-year lifespan.
“Basically, it’d be nice to get it refurbished,” he said.
As a capital improvement project, any money from the state would need to be accompanied with a local match in the same way as the remodels of Pacific High and Blatchley Middle School. Depending on how the project is categorized for state funding, a local election for either a 30 percent or 40 percent local match will be required, District Superintendent Mary Wegner said.
Wegner said the paved game courts are used by the general public after school hours and during the summer.
“The facility is used heavily by the community as well as the district,” Wegner said.
The board previously had asked for money to refurbish the structure through legislative priorities, which would have brought funding as a direct appropriation rather than through the Department of Education’s school improvement process. Past legislative requests were for $384,000. In its latest move the school district is submitting a request for upgrade of the entire recreational area to the Department of Education, which will then make a funding determination, Bautista said.
Board members asked Bautista if the funds could cover new playground equipment. He said that could be possible depending on how much money is received, and how the department of education decides to allot it.
“We don’t always have control, as you know, over what happens to the money after we get it,” he said.
The board voted 4-0 to approve the measure. Board member Tonia Rioux was absent and excused.
The item came up at the first board meeting Monday and was added as an action-item for Wednesday’s special meeting in order to meet the end-of-the-month deadline for the application.
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March 2004
Matthew C. Hunter of Sitka recently returned from Cuba as part of a St. Olaf College International and Off-Campus Studies program. Hunter, a junior physics major at St. Olaf College, is the son of Robert and Kim Hunter of Sitka.
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March 1974
Eighth graders have returned from a visit to Juneau to see the Legislature. They had worked for it since Christmas vacation ... Clarice Johnson’s idea of a “White Elephant” sales was chosen as the best money-maker; Joe Roth won the political cartoon assignment; highest government test scorers were Ken Armstrong, Joanna Hearn, Linda Montgomery, Lisa Henry, Calvin Taylor and David Licari .....