The Blairsville-Saltsburg School Board will hold a committee meeting tonight, on the eve of tomorrow night’s special meeting at which the board will vote on whether or not to permanently close the Saltsburg Middle-High School.
Tonight’s meeting does not have a published agenda, but tomorrow night’s does. It calls for citizen remarks on the motion to close the school, then consideration of the motion and a vote.
The motion itself is quite simple; it notes that the required public hearings were held on the matter on January 13th and 14th, that the 90-day moratorium on a final vote has now passed, and that the board wishes to render its decision. The administration is then directed to take any and all actions to notify the state Department of Education and to do whatever is necessary to affect the closure.
The agenda does not include any other items, such as a proposal to turn the Saltsburg school into a STEAM academy. The school would officially close on June 11th.
Tonight’s committee meeting is scheduled for 5:30 PM. The special meeting tomorrow is scheduled for 6 PM. Both will be available virtually at the district website, b-ssd.org.
Blairsville-Saltsburg Superintendent Philip Martell is scheduled to visit Indiana In the Morning on WCCS on Friday at 9:45 AM.
