tracdrawingJamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Public School Board, Monday, authorized construction prior to a land swap agreement concerning site work for the Two Rivers Activity Center (TRAC.)

On a 7-0 with members Greg Allen and Brenda Roemich not present, the Board authorized Superintendent Robert Lech to coordinate with Jamestown Parks and Recreation Department to conduct site work for the TRAC facility on behalf of the school district.

Parks and Recreation Director, Doug Hogan says the Jamestown Parkboard, and Lutheran Charities Association on Friday reached an agreement over 8.61 acres of Jamestown Regional Medical Center land adjacent to the 15.3-acre donated by the school district for the TRAC project. Shifting TRAC partly onto the JRMC land will result in returning 8.61 acres of land to the school district.

Lech says the action keeps TRAC on contiguous acreage.

Hogan says that Scherbenske Inc. wants to start earthmoving and utilities work three weeks early, and the excavation will require a significant amount of dirt to be placed on the JRMC land that will become school district land after the agreement.

In other business, Lech also stated that he is recommending that Louis L’Amour and Washington elementary schools return to a single principal for each school starting next contract period. The school currently have one lead principal and one assistant principal in charge of both schools.

The transition back would cost an additional $12,000. It would be to compensate the assistant principal for the lead principal responsibilities already being performed, he said.

The School Board then went into executive session to discuss strategies for contract negotiations.