Baseball and basketball take center stage at the USD 447 Cherryvale School Board meeting.
At last night's meeting, the board heard from Casi Addis of the Cherryvale Recreation Commission Board. The rec commission has been working to improve the lighting at the city ball fields at Lake Tanko Park. Addis announced that the commission would be partnering with Barrier Lighting of Oklahoma and Musco Lighting from Iowa to make the needed renovations. Addis says improving their baseball facilities will make the city more attractive to visitors and potential new residents.
The recreation commission will fix the field lights by borrowing the funds. The board agreed to share the cost by voting to spend up to $175,000 on the project as long as it was legal for them to use general fund money to do so.
In other business before the board, a measure was approved to adopt a trial program that would allow 6th grade students to play on interscholastic middle schools teams if fewer than 15 athletes are available to play on the teams.
