Portales school board election venue changed

The Portales Municipal Schools board approved changing the site of February’s school board election during Monday’s meeting.

The Feb. 3 election site will be moved from the Memorial Building to the Zia Room at the L.C. Cozzens Administrative Offices after the board learned that the Memorial Building would be holding a district trial the same week.

Three seats on the board will be up for election — District 2, which is held by Board Vice President Inez Rodriguez; District 1 (President Rod Savage) and District 5 (Mary Lou Rowley).

Rodriguez and Savage have been on the board since 2003 and Rowley has been on the board since 1989.

The candidate deadline to file for the election is Dec. 16.

The board also approved the girls high school basketball team to travel to Lubbock in February for a basketball game against Lubbock Christian High School, and a $4,091 general obligation bond that was added to the budget and will go toward school libraries.

Superintendent Johnnie Cain said the school district is in the process of updating its website, which will be more user friendly and will include separate pages for each school in the district as well as each department. The hope is at some point before the end of the school year each teacher can have their own page and can use it to post assignments for students to view.

The board also announced two hirings.

Delma Partin was hired late last month as an administrative assistant in the technology office and Kristin Tivis as an administrative assistant of instruction in the school’s central office.

The next school board meeting is scheduled Jan. 12.