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Board approves committee to rename facility currently called Success Academy
Summary
The board approved formation of a community‑staff‑board committee to recommend a new, non‑program name for the building currently called Success Academy, consistent with district Policy 45‑10.
The Grand Island Public Schools Board of Education voted Tuesday to form a naming committee to recommend a new name for the facility currently called Success Academy.
Mitchell Rausch, the district communications director, told the board the reason for the change is that the Success Academy program is no longer housed in the building. "Success Academy is no longer housed there," Rausch said. "We want to establish a facility name that could ideally live on for decades regardless of what is being housed in that facility."
Rausch said the district followed Policy 45‑10 in proposing a committee with board, administrative, teacher and community representation. The proposed membership presented to the board included two board volunteers (Eric Garcia Mendez and Amanda Wilson), district leadership representatives (Rausch and Mr. Petch of facilities), Director of Special Education Renee Engel, elementary teacher Emily Bailey (incoming GIEA president), GISH Freshman Academy principal Jared Bombec, freshman counselor Sean Willie, high school skills academy teacher Kelsey Alcorn, and community members Jennifer Worthington and Amanda Moritz.
The board approved formation of the committee; the vote was announced as passing without a public roll‑call tally recorded in the meeting notes. Rausch said the committee will solicit name suggestions from staff and the wider Grand Island community, narrow submissions to a short list and return recommendations to the board for final action. He said the district will not approve names at this meeting, only the committee's formation and membership.
Rausch said facilities staff requested the timing so naming work could be completed before summer building projects. "If we are going to be renaming a facility that also probably means we're going to be changing some things on an actual building, and he [Mr. Petch] requested if we could have this information done before his team does a lot of their summer work, that would be greatly appreciated," Rausch said.
Board members did not amend the proposed committee list at the meeting. The committee will schedule its first meeting and present a public engagement plan under Policy 45‑10 before forwarding recommendations to the board.
