Interim Superintendent Dennis Fyffe recommended the close school on Friday, May 25 to use up an extra snow day.
The board previously approved four make-up days in the wake of the late , which closed school for a full week.
"It is the recommendation of the administration that since we have unused snow days," Fyffe said, "that we close school on May 25, thereby extending the Memorial Day Weekend."
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Typically districts budget four snow days for the entire year, all of which were depleted after the storm. When the area was on Oct. 29, school was canceled for five days because of power outages, downed power lines and tree branches and unsafe driving and walking conditions among the schools and both and .
In the wake of a winter with above-average temperatures, Fyffe said two of the snow days were no longer necessary.
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The four days approved for make-up days were Jan. 2, Jan. 16 (Martin Luther King Day) and Feb. 17 (an early dismissal day) and April 9, the Monday after Easter.
The was debated among residents and board members because the days included Martin Luther King Day. Each school as part of their class activities that day.
Fyffe recommended .
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