September 12, 2022
By News Director Jared Atha
The Elk City School Board is scheduled to meet tonight (Monday) in regular session.
Items on the agenda the board will consider and take action on include a mandated redistricting resolution to reapportion the territory of the school district into board districts in the year following the submission by the United States Department of Commerce to the President of the United States of the official Federal Census.
The board will also consider and take action to approve or not approve the capacity limits for the school district to accept student transfers at each site and grade level.
Also on the agenda, the board will be presented the latest audit from Britton, Kuykendall and Miller CPA’s from fiscal year 2021-2022.
Tonight’s meeting at the Elk City School Board Office is scheduled to start at 6 p.m.
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