Board hears plan to join new United Athletic Conference with nearby districts
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Board members were briefed on a newly formed 'United Athletic Conference' that will include Bedford, Warrensville Heights and Maple Heights, promising expanded extracurricular and academic competitions; each district will be asked to approve a resolution to join.
Garfield Heights board members on Dec. 8 were briefed on a new regional athletics and activities consortium that the district's superintendents and athletic directors helped form.
"The conference that we were a part of for several years has now been disbanded. This is a new conference for a lot of the districts that we are very familiar with, including Bedford, Warrensville Heights, Maple Heights," said Miss Thomas, the board president. She said the new United Athletic Conference will emphasize athletics and other extracurricular activities, including academic challenges, and that district leaders are drafting resolutions for each board to approve entering the agreement.
Miss Thomas said a commissioner will lead the new conference and that the district has been working with neighboring superintendents and athletic directors to recruit participating schools. The agenda lists a resolution (noted during discussion as 02/2526) that the board will consider to approve Garfield Heights' entrance into the conference.
Board members expressed enthusiasm about a broader slate of activities and said the administration will circulate the formal resolution and attachments for board review ahead of the next meeting.