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inside RECALL UPDATE The deadline is approaching for two recall committees working to oust West Ada School District trustees. Each group has less than three weeks to collect enough signatures to initiate a May recall election.

page 3 Above: Project Superintendent Curt Blough looks at the construction progress for Hillsdale Elementary School Tuesday in Meridian. The 70,000-squarefoot school is planned to be completed by August. Left: Victory Middle School in Meridian will be 138,000 square feet and completed this summer. The school will have the same floor plan as Heritage and Sawtooth Middle Schools.

BUSINESS News that Costco is likely opening in Meridian this year created a wave of both delighted and disappointed feedback from Meridian Press readers. Reporter Holly Beech recaps the response.

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SCHOOLS In light of the recent lawsuit brought by Russell Joki, the West Ada School District Board of Trustees decided Thursday to eliminate students’ class fees for elective courses that count toward graduation.

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NEW SCHOOLS, NEW BOUNDARIES

West Ada undergoes major school boundary redraw Parent-led committee presenting proposed changes to the public this month

CRIME Meridian Police are looking for three suspects who distracted a Meridian shopper so they could slip her credit cards from her purse.

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COURT A former teacher at Centennial High School has filed a lawsuit against the West Ada School District and his former supervisors, claiming that unfair treatment led to emotional and physical distress.

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ith two new schools opening next year and lopsided enrollment at its high schools, the West Ada School District is redrawing the attendance areas of about 13 schools, including all five major high schools. A redistricting committee, made up of 36 parents and one district staff member, has been meeting since October to draw out a new boundary map, which will go before the school board Feb. 9. The committee’s proposal seeks to balance enrollment across schools, create continuity in attendance zones and plan for future population by Holly Beech growth. The public is invited to weigh in hbeech@mymeridianpress.com on the proposal at public hearings this © 2016 MERIDIAN PRESS month. Victory Middle School and Hillsdale Elementary will open this fall, relieving overcrowding at nearby schools. In the fall of 2017, high school boundaries will shift to fill empty seats at some high schools, such as Meridian and Centennial, while removing the burden from Mountain View and Rocky Mountain, which are overcrowded by more than 500 students each. Overall, about 2,195 incoming and current students could be affected by the boundary changes, West Ada spokesman Eric Exline said. Though necessary, these changes aren’t easy for students and families, said Clint Shiflet, a parent and member of the redistricting committee. “I can certainly understand people wanting their children to stay at a school where they’ve established friendships, established relationships and are involved in sports, music (and) extracurricular activities,” he said. Shiflet’s daughter, a freshman at Rocky Mountain High School, feels the pinch of the overcrowding. “There were classes that she was not able to get into because of the number of students — some of the electives she was interested in,” Shiflet said. “Right now when there’s not room for them to sit in the lunchroom, she and her friends sit in the hall to eat lunch.” But his daughter dreads the thought of being forced to change

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I can certainly understand people wanting their children to stay at a school where they’ve established friendships, established relationships, and are involved in sports, music (and) extracurricular activities.” CLINT SHIFLET, West Ada parent, member of redistricting committee schools, he said. This experience is not new for the IF YOU GO Shiflet family. School boundaries were n 7 p.m. Jan. 20: Redistrictredrawn when their older daughter was at Eagle High School. The family even ing committee public hearing, chose their new home in that area so she Rocky Mountain High School, could continue going to Eagle High. 5450 N. Linder Road, Meridian “Some of her biggest concerns were n 5:30 p.m. Feb. 9: Redistrictjust going to a whole new school,” Shiflet ing committee presentation said. “She was very involved in the music to the West Ada school board, program at Eagle, didn’t know the (other tentatively at Meridian Middle school’s) choir teacher, didn’t know people in the music program. Some of her School, 1507 W. Eighth St. best friends were staying at Eagle and not going with her.” Hundreds of families face similar concerns. Roughly 500 people came to the committee’s first public hearing Jan. 6, and about 100 of them shared concerns, Exline said. People are also concerned that the new school might be farther from home. “I see this all over the district every time I’ve done this — people become very loyal to their school,” Exline said. The only group of students who can choose not to switch schools is the graduating class of 2018, he said.

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MERIDIAN POLICE ARREST REPORT The Meridian Police Department is now only reporting on arrests in its media log in an effort to cut back on the number of hours staff spends compiling the log. To view the list of arrests in Meridian from Jan. 4 to Jan. 11, visit mymeridianpress.com.

any of our readers responded on the Meridian Press Facebook page to the news that a Costco is likely moving to the southeast corner of North Linder Road and East Chinden Boulevard this year. A Costco representative said the company doesn’t comment on specific locations, but Datum Construction owner Keith Jones told me his crews are preparing the site for Costco in what will be the new Linder Village, which will house about 30 businesses. Northwest Meridian is also seeing hundreds of new homes go up, as outlined in our page 3 story last week, “New homes, new businesses popping up in northwest Meridian.” We asked our readers on Facebook who’s rooting for Costco to come to Meridian. Reactions varied from excitement to concerns about traffic to mourning the Meridian that used to be. Here’s what some of you said: n Darwin N Darlene Smith: “Very excited for Costco to be in this area!” n Cindy Stanton Capps: “Costco yeah!!! All the houses and apartments boo!” n Rachel Beyerlein Hoyt: “Not excited. Between the temple, Costco and other new businesses the traffic and noise will be horrendous for local homeowners near that corner.” n Luke McManamon: “This would be AWESOME.” n Susan White: “That would be great!” n Sj Munsey: “Saying goodbye to the small town atmosphere of Meridian that I loved and grew up in....doesn’t look the same....such a shame.... keep tearing down the old farms, barns, and homes that our families made a living off of and made Meridian the town it was.....continue on till there is nothing left that resembled a small town that thrived with businesses run by the residents that lived there. You’re almost there!” n Brandy Collier Rudolph: “Holy cow! Did you read how many single family lots are being developed?? How are all these people, cars, etc. going to fit? Poor, poor planning. Too much. Too fast. Sad.” n Ruth Romero: “Have you been under a rock? Where have you been? COSTCO IS coming to the Linder Chinden area. Go shopping after church on Sundays!!” n Vern Koruna Edwards: “With all of this development happening,

Police: Suspects distract shopper to steal credit cards from purse Meridian Police are searching for three people suspected of stealing credit cards out of a Marshalls customer’s purse in early December. Police released photos of the suspects but have not identified anyone by name. Police say two men and a woman stole three credit cards from a female victim who was shopping in the Marshalls clothing store in Meridian. The first male suspect allegedly distracted the customer while she was shopping as the second male crawled into the clothing aisle and reached through the clothing and grabbed her purse. The second suspect removed the credit cards from the purse and put the purse back in the customer’s cart. The second suspect then crawled back out of the clothing aisle, while the female suspect was acting as his lookout, according to police. The suspects used the victim’s credit cards at several places in Boise, including the Apple store, where they made several purchases for over $1,000 each, police said. Anyone with information on these suspects is asked to contact Detective Seth Washburn at 8467342.

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shouldn’t it be required that the developers be taxed somehow to help the city pay for all the new schools that need to be built in order to accommodate all of the new families with children in an already overcrowded school system? As of now, there’s nothing of the sort. It’s also rather sickening that folks are ‘thrilled’ that Costco is coming to their part of town. Does anyone remember the beautiful farmland up that way? Gone. It’s sad.” n Chad Farm-Er: “By the year 2018 traffic will resemble Seattle around here. No thanks, go put it in Kuna, send all the cars by Holly Beech hbeech@mymeridianpress.com the opposite direction.” n Debra Hamlin: “Put it in Kuna. Me- © 2016 MERIDIAN PRESS ridian is a traffic nightmare.” n Jennifer Cipparone Michon: “Good lord why does Meridian need more traffic?” n Sean Morris: “That will help traffic, good thing there are such patient and non-aggressive drivers around here. What could happen?” n Matt Clark: “... Looks like we might not have to go far for our costco runs.” n Melissa Cruz: “Costco in Meridian!” n Sheena Boonen: “I’d like to see some development near Ten Mile and I-84. Some restaurant options would be great!” n Marione Maughan: “Let’s get a Trader Joe’s in Meridian!” n Saskia Smit Baxter: “Anybody know if there are plans for an IKEA????” n Jennifer Roath: “Yes costco!” n Debra Foutz Gibbons: “Would rather have Sam’s Club” n Fabiana Loverde de Huffaker: “I’m so excited!!! Can’t wait.” n Sherri Hamilton: “YES” n Chelsea Story: “Yaaaaaayyyy!” n Carole DeVries Bowman: “No” n Grace Cady: “Sadly this means we will be moving within the next few years. Want less ppl and traffic not more. Also add more ppl & traffic means more crime.”

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A video created by a local student will compete for a $5,000 grand prize in the American Bankers Association’s Lights, Camera, Save! contest. “Savings Illustrated,” by Matthew Walsh, 18, a Nampa resident who attends The Ambrose School in Meridian, was selected by sponsor Zions Bank to be in the national competition, in which students create short videos to educate their peers about the value of using money wisely. Local participating banks judged the entries and selected one winner each for consideration at the national level. Walsh’s creation employs the “whiteboard video” technique to hand illustrate in simple black-and-white drawings the importance of saving money. Watch the video at goo.gl/NqSzO4. The winning video will earn a $5,000 prize, while second and third place winners will receive $2,500 and $1,000, respectively. Each winner’s school will also receive a scholarship for one teacher to attend the Jump$tart National Educator Conference in 2016. National winners will be chosen by a panel of financial experts and announced during America Saves Week, the last week of February.

Idaho Suicide Prevention Hotline seeks volunteers

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The Idaho Suicide Prevention Hotline (1-800-273-TALK), by Jannus, Inc., needs volunteer phone responders for all shifts, especially evenings and weekends. The ISPH team trains volunteers — laypersons or professionals in the greater Boise area — to become crisis phone workers. The next training class begins Jan. 26 and runs through Feb. 23. Volunteer phone responders receive more than 45 hours of training and apprenticeship, including 14.5 continuing education units, and commitment to one 4.5-hour hotline shift per week for one year. To learn more call Nina Leary at 258-6992, email nleary@jannus.org or visit idahosuicideprevention.org.

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Meridian Library releases top 5 books of 2015

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It was a banner year for reading in 2015, with print book sales up 2.1 percent for fiction and 6.6 percent for nonfiction, according to Publishers Weekly. Circulation at the Meridian Library District increased 8 percent, with over 680,000 print book checkouts from Meridian library locations. The district also had over 61,000 e-books circulate in 2015. The top five circulating books for the library in 2015 were: 1. “All the Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr (2014 Meridian Reads title) 2. “Girl on the Train” by Pamela Hawkins 3. “Gray Mountain” by John Grisham 4. “Nightingale” by Kristin Hannah 5. “14th Deadly Sin” by James Patterson Other items available to borrow from Meridian library branches are DVDs, music, audiobooks, Early Literacy kits, Make It Take IT kits, tablets, Go Pro Cameras and mobile Wi-Fi hotspots. Overall, the library had over 1.1 million checkouts of library materials in the last year.

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The Young Entrepreneurs Academy, or YEA!, has announced the business mentors that will work with local students in this year’s YEA! Class at Renaissance High School. YEA! is a national program that guides students through the process of starting their own real business. The program was introduced locally in January 2014 by the Meridian Chamber of Commerce and the West Ada School District. YEA! pairs up each student business with an appropriate mentor who helps the students better understand their concept, write a business plan and identify their target audience This year’s mentors are Diane Bevan, Mark Brown Group, Silvercreek Realty; Frank Baillargeon, f/22 Consulting; Chris Foster, Command Performance; Joel Hess, Good News Real Estate; Kim Mulvihill, Intermountain Pet Hospital; Paula Miller, Iconic Idaho; Ron Ramza, Ramza Realty; Shelley Uzzel, Blimpie; Larry Wood, MetLife. “I believe the greatest legacy I can leave is in the success of the next generation. I am extremely honored and excited to be working with these young entrepreneurs,” Foster with Command Performance said in a Meridian Chamber of Commerce press release.

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West Ada recall update: ‘We’re very close’ Contact information

The Concerned Citizens of West Ada School District for Trustee Recall Seeking to recall trustees Tina Dean, Julie Madsen, Russell Joki and Carol Sayles n Phone: 870-9981 n Website: westadarecall.org n Co-chairs: Christine Donnell, Reid Olsen, Mike n

“Veterans Against Vuittonet” and other volunteers Seeking to recall trustee Mike Vuittonet n Contact the group through its Facebook page: Recall Mike Vuittonet West Ada Trustee n Led by Daryl Sallaz n

West Ada trustees Zone 1, Tina Dean: dean.tina@westada.org n Zone 2, Mike Vuittonet: vuittonet.mike@westada.org n Zone 3, Carol Sayles: sayles.carol@westada.org n Zone 4, Julie Madsen: madsen.julie@westada.org n Zone 5, Russell Joki: joki.russell@westada.org n

Groups working toward trustee recalls have until Jan. 25 and Feb. 1 to turn in signatures

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wo committees continue to work toward collecting enough signatures to recall all five members of the West Ada school board. The group seeking to recall Trustee Mike Vuittonet must turn in its collected signatures by Jan. 25, according to JoMeta Spencer with the Ada by Holly Beech County Elections Office. The group hbeech@mymeridianpress.com seeking to recall the other four trust© 2016 MERIDIAN PRESS ees must turn in its signatures by Feb. 1. The committees have a total of 75 days to collect all the signatures needed. For both groups, that day falls on the weekend, so the signatures will be due the following Monday, Spencer said. The number of signatures needed to set a recall election in motion is at least half of the number of votes that trustee received in the last election. The number of signatures required in each zone is: n Zone 1, Trustee Tina Dean: 253 n Zone 2, Trustee Mike Vuittonet: 278 n Zone 3,Trustee Carol Sayles: 335 n Zone 4, Trustee Julie Madsen: 454 n Zone 5, Trustee Russell Joki: 302 A group must turn in all of the signed petitions at the same time and cannot submit more signatures if some of the signatures on the forms turn out to be invalid, Spencer said. “Both groups are planning on getting more than the required number because there’s always a certain percentage of signatures on petitions that are not valid,” she said. The elections office will have 15 days to verify the signatures. If enough valid signatures have been collected to recall a trustee, he or she will have five days to choose whether or not to step down. If the trustee does not resign, the school board will set a recall election at the next available date, which in this case would be May 17, as the deadline to be on the March 8 ballot will have passed.

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Tina Dean

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The group seeking to recall Vuittonet, called Veterans Against Vuittonet, is led by a former Boise teacher and former Idaho lawmaker Daryl Sallaz. He could not be reached for comment. The group criticizes Vuittonet for Carol Sayles Mike Vuittonet supporting the way Clark’s contract was approved even though the other four trustees and the board’s attorney say the process violated the open meeting law. The four trustees and the attorney, William “Breck” Seiniger, said the only way to cure that violation was to void Clark’s contract extension. Madsen has said it’s unfortunate that trustees are being “vilified” for upholding the law and striving to be transparent. Joki denounces the accusation that the board micromanages staff. The petition form against Vuittonet claims he “violated the Open Meeting Law when he approved three illegal contracts with lucrative benefits for the superintendent of schools, voted for increased central office administration costs, voted for contracting of inefficient student transportation services, did not object to a 40% cost overrun for the new Hillsdale Elementary, and supported the recall of other school board members who oppose his votes on the above and related matters during his more than ten years of being on the school board.” Hillsdale Elementary will cost about $4.2 million more to build than the $10 million estimate included in the bond that voters passed in March. Savings from other projects in the bond will cover the gap. “While nobody wants to see a cost overrun, no one wants to pay more than they should … some of these unforeseen things, they’re just not possible to calculate ahead of time,” Vuittonet said at the Nov. 17 board meeting.

The group targeting the four trustees, called The Concerned Citizens of West Ada School District for Trustee Recall, takes the position that those trustees should be recalled for “failure to listen and respond to district patrons, unreasonable demands on district employees, disrespectful and disruptive behavior in board meetings, and lack of transparency and fiscal responsibility,” according to the recall petitions. “What’s been happening in the district because of these things and the lack of morale and anxiety of many, many people who work in our district, it’s very concerning to me,” Vuittonet previously told the Meridian Press. Vuittonet co-leads the recall committee with former West Ada superintendent Christine Donnell and former West Ada trustee Reid Olsen. Donnell stood up at the Sept. 29 school board meeting, when trustees voted 4-1 to void the third year of then-super-  Read our previous coverage on Hillsdale Elementary construction costs at goo.gl/ intendent Linda Clark’s contract, and urged people to join the LT2TSH. recall efforts. The efforts are “gaining steam,” Olsen said Jan. 8, noting that 25 to 30 volunteers a week are collecting signatures. Rumors that the recall efforts have stopped are false, he said. The group has exceeded the number of signatures needed in two zones, though Olsen would not specify which ones. “We’re within striking distance in the other two (zones), meaning we’re within 75 to 100 signatures,” he said. “We’re very close.”

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Gov. Butch Otter has selected Megan Ronk of Meridian to lead the Idaho Department of Commerce. Ronk served as chief operating officer for the department and ran the dayto-day operations under former director Jeff Sayer. “Megan has had a lot to do with the improvements we’ve seen in our economic development Megan Ronk efforts under Jeff’s leadership,” Otter said in a statement. “She has a thorough understanding of state government’s role and priorities and what employers and entrepreneurs need in order to grow Idaho’s economy.” Ronk is a graduate of The College of Idaho. She was previously an executive director of the Idaho Meth Project, a strategic manager for Blue Cross of Idaho and a policy adviser to former Gov. Dirk Kempthorne. She has taught microeconomics as an adjunct faculty member at the College of Western Idaho since 2010. “I am humbled and honored to have the opportunity to lead a team that is truly passionate about Idaho,” Ronk stated. “Working closely with our partners throughout the state, we have the privilege to spend each and every day selling Idaho to businesses and travelers throughout the world. Idaho is uniquely poised to achieve greatness, and I’m excited to continue to be a part of that in this new role.” Ronk’s appointment to director will need to be confirmed by the Idaho Senate.

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Milton D. Andersen, 92, of Patricia Ellen Mairs, 95, of Boise, died Monday, Jan. 11, 2016, at Boise, died Friday, Jan. 8, 2016, at a his home of natural causes. Funeral local care facility. Funeral Home: Cremation Society of Idaho Home: Relyea Funeral Chapel. Frances Catherine Calvin Sidney McGillis, 89, Brown, 94, of Boise, died Wednes- of Boise, died Monday, Jan. 11, 2016,

day, Jan. 6, 2016, at a local care facility at a care center in Rancho Mirage, of natural causes. Funeral Home: Cre- California of natural causes. Funeral mation Society of Idaho. Home: Relyea Funeral Chapel. 72, of Boise, James Gordon Newbry, 82, died Monday, Jan. 11, 2016, at a lo- of Boise, died Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016, at cal care center. Funeral Home: Accent a local care facility of natural causes. Funeral Home: Cremation Society of Funeral Home, Meridian. Idaho. Barbara A. Christy, 63, of Meridian, died Saturday, Jan. 9, 2016, Roy C. Pratt, 96, of Boise, died at her home. Funeral Home: Accent Saturday, Jan. 9, 2016, at a local care center. Funeral Home: Accent Funeral Funeral Home, Meridian Home, Meridian Theresa Gay Clever, 62, of Boise, died Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016, Ruth Evelyn Carman Sciat her home of natural causes. Funeral fres, 94, of Eagle, died Monday, Jan. 11, 2016, at a local hospital of natural Home: Relyea Funeral Chapel. causes. Funeral Home: Relyea Funeral Rickey J. Dawson, 49, of Chapel Boise, died Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016, Wimmer at his home. Funeral Home: Accent Harold Mortensen, 89, of Meridian, Funeral Home. died Monday, Jan. 11, 2016, at his home of natural causes. Funeral Home: Relyea Funeral Chapel.

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West Ada board votes Boundaries to eliminate class fees Continued from page 1

he West Ada School District will stop charging fees for classes that count toward graduation at the start of next school year. The fees were ruled unconstitutional by a district judge in November as the result of a three-year by Holly Beech hbeech@mymeridianpress.com lawsuit filed by Russell © 2016 MERIDIAN PRESS Joki, elected in May to the West Ada school board. Though the ruling didn’t order the district to slash the fees, the intent of the law is clear, district general counsel William “Breck” Seiniger said. Last school year, students contributed almost $900,000 in class fees to cover things like art and lab supplies, according to district finance director Alex Simpson. Misty Sterk, who teaches honors biology and a crime scene lab at Eagle High School, worries where funding will come from when the fees are eliminated. The bill for lab supplies often exceeds $700, she said, but science teachers at her school only get about $50 a class to cover these costs. “Pig hearts are expensive, fetal pigs are expensive, sharks, all of this,” she said. “We drug test maggots. … DNA testing is very expensive — very important, but very expensive.” Sterk said she’s generated thousands of dollars in grant money to buy equipment for her classes, but the materials still need to be purchased each year. If funding is re-

duced, Sterk said she would end up just covering the expenses out of pocket. “I can’t be the pencil and paper worksheet teacher. I’m a lab teacher, and my job is to create 21st century scienRussell Joki tists,” she said. “I need fundWest Ada trustee ing to do that.” Superintendent Mary Ann Ranells assured Sterk that the district’s priority is keeping all of its programs intact without teachers taking a pay cut or having to fund supplies themselves. “We certainly don’t want to jeopardize the integrity or the quality of some of our outstanding programs,” Ranells said. “We don’t have all the answers, but philosophically, morally, ethically, we don’t think we should charge fees.” Currently, students who can’t afford class fees, which typically range from $10 to $50 per class, can ask their school for a fee waiver. But no student or family should have to go through that humiliation, Joki said. The school board voted 4-1 at tonight’s board meeting to eliminate the fees. Joki voted against the motion because he wanted to fees to be cut this semester rather than waiting until next school year. District staff, including school principals and teachers, have been directed to take an inventory of how much money class fees generate and where expenses could be cut.

Additionally, affected students who are freshmen this year or who will be freshmen next year can transfer in 2016 rather than 2017. “There are people who bought their home fully expecting their kids to be able to attend a certain school, and it’s difficult for kids to change schools,” Shiflet said. “Sometimes it’s difficult for families because you’ll maybe have one or two children still at one high school, and you’ve got another sibling going to another school, so you’ve got in-house rivalries and issues like that.” More than half of the committee

members’ families will be affected by the boundary changes, but that has not influenced their work on the committee, Shiflet said. He said he joined the committee hoping to be a voice of reason and help alleviate overcrowding. As a leader in the Meridian Chamber of Commerce, Shiflet said he sees the importance of a strong school system in attracting businesses to the community. “Meridian’s one of the best places to live in the nation,” he said. “One of our greatest selling points is the strength of our schools.” Through his and others’ efforts on the redistricting committee, Shiflet hopes to keep it that way.

Boundary changes The boundary change proposal affects roughly 2,195 current and incoming students at 13 schools. The new school boundaries for elementary and middle schools will take effect in the fall of 2016 when Hillsdale Elementary and Victory Middle School open. The boundary changes at the five major high schools will take effect in the fall of 2017.

Elementary schools Hillsdale Elementary will open this fall near the corner of West Amity and South Eagle roads with a capacity of 650 students. Hillsdale students will be drawn from the current attendance areas of: n Siena Elementary, 150 students over capacity n Mary McPherson Elementary, 102 students over capacity n Desert Sage Elementary, 22 students over capacity n Lake Hazel Elementary, 18 students over capacity n Pepper Ridge Elementary, 15 students over capacity Some Andrus Elementary students may be moved to under-filled elementary schools.

Middle schools Victory Middle School will open this fall near the corner of West Overland and South Stoddard roads with a capacity of 1,000 students. Students will be drawn from the current attendance areas of Lake Hazel and Lewis and Clark middle schools. Eagle Middle School’s attendance area will be altered before the 2018-19 school year, when the new Star Middle School will open.

High schools

School district approves superintendent contract, salary

he West Ada school board voted Tuesday on a contract for Superintendent Mary Ann Ranells that will provide her with a salary of $77,478.26 for the 110 days in the second half of this school year. Ranells was hired as superintendent Dec. 15 and started working Jan. 4 before signing a contract. She said Jan. 6 that she wasn’t worried and that the board was being “very diligent” to make sure her contract was at the level of other local superintendents. A full by Holly Beech year’s salhbeech@mymeridianpress.com ary is not © 2016 MERIDIAN PRESS outlined in the contract approved Tuesday, which is listed as a State of Idaho Retired Administrator Contract. Ranells retired as the Lakeland School District superintendent in 2014. The contract provides Ranells with health insurance, life insurance, one day of accruable sick leave per month, and benefits as outlined in the superintendent job description, which include five paid personal days and the use of a district-owned vehicle for district business. West Ada’s former superintendent, Linda Clark, earned about $143,000 this year before resigning in October. Ranells

Meridian High School’s remodel will be complete before the 2017-18 school year, increasing capacity by 200 students to a total of 2,400. The boundary change proposal includes the following transfers in the fall of 2017: n About 200 students from Rocky Mountain High School to Meridian High School. n About 100 students from Rocky Mountain to Eagle High School. n About 150 students from Mountain View High School to Centennial High School. n About 450 students from Mountain View to Meridian High School.

High school enrollment Centennial High School n n

Enrollment: 1,768 Capacity: 1,900

Eagle High School n n

Enrollment: 1,817 Capacity: 1,800

Meridian High School n n

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West Ada School District superintendent Mary Ann Ranells hugs her grandson Pierson Deming, 12, of Nampa, following a Dec. 15 school board meeting. earned about $111,000 in 2013-14 as the Lakeland School District superintendent. Lakeland has less than 4,500 students compared with West Ada’s 37,000. Trustee Russell Joki said Ranells has been well-received by West Ada staff, and he believes she will have a “warm working relationship” across all levels of employees. She is already skilled at running a district and won’t have to overcome a learning curve, he said.

Enrollment: 1,555 Capacity (when remodel is complete): 2,400

Mountain View High School n n

Enrollment: 2,382 Capacity: 1,800

Rocky Mountain High School n n

Enrollment: 2,332 Capacity: 1,800

SOURCE: district spokesman Eric Exline

FormerWest Ada employee files complaint against district, supervisors

former West Ada School District employee has filed a lawsuit against the school district and his former supervisors. Kenneth Nakis, who taught at Centennial High School, filed the complaint and demand for jury trial at the Ada County Courthouse by Holly Beech Sept. hbeech@mymeridianpress.com on 24. He al© 2016 MERIDIAN PRESS leges he was treated unfairly by Centennial’s principal at the time, David Moser, and assistant principal, Katrina Johnston, in 2013 after considering taking a job as a football coach at Meridian High School. Nakis declined the coaching position, but said Moser and Johnston began to question his performance as a teacher for the first time and began to “harass, embarrass, intimidate, and humiliate” him. He received two letters of reprimand and was briefly placed on administrative leave in the fall of 2013, the lawsuit claims. The actions of Moser and Johnston, according to the complaint, caused Nakis to feel C M Y K

“cruelly and pointlessly manipulated and under attack.” Nakis went on unpaid medical leave from Oct. 16, 2013, to Jan. 6, 2014, at which point he ended his employment with the district to prevent more harm to his professional reputation and emotional and physical well-being, the complaint states. Efforts to reach Moser, Johnston, Nakis and Nakis’ attorney, Jason Monteleone, were unsuccessful. Though a summons was filed Sept. 24, the lawsuit had yet to be served to the district as of Jan. 7, according to spokesman Eric Exline and Amy White, an attorney who contracts with the district. “Typically there is a six month period to serve a suit and not everything that is filed is actually served,” White said. “There are occasions where someone files a suit just because a deadline is approaching and things never move forward. I don’t know what will occur in this situation.” Former West Ada superintendent Linda Clark and the school board were also named as plaintiffs. Clark said she was unaware of the lawsuit.

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been released. At the time of the Meridian temple groundbreaking, 106,000 Mormons lived within 50 miles of Boise, and 115,000 were part of the Boise Temple District, which covers parts of southwest Idaho and eastern Oregon. One in four Idahoans are members of the LDS church. Membership grew by 18.2 percent from 2004 to 2014 — 2.5 percent faster than the population of Idaho at large.

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