By Tracy Ouellette
Editor
The East Troy School Board approved a facilities naming policy Monday night at its regular board meeting. The matter came about after the friends and family of Brad Mysliwski came to the board in February asking that the baseball fields be named in his honor.
Mysliwski, a 1999 graduate of East Troy High School, died Dec. 19, 2013, after a protracted battle with PMP cancer. He was a member of the 1999 East Troy conference championship baseball team. He played second base.
The new policy outlines criteria that the board felt would warrant naming a facility after someone. The policy states “… it should be someone that has made an extraordinary contribution to the East Troy School District or the community and be a rare occurrence.”
It goes on to state that the board would only consider a request after an individual has been deceased for at least two years. It allows for consideration of naming a facility after a living person with that person’s permission as well.
Each request will be considered on a case-by-case basis by the School Board.
Board member Martha Bresler asked Dr. Chris Hibner, superintendent, what effect the policy would have on the request from Mysliwski’s friends and family, as it was brought to the board before the policy was in effect.
Hibner told they board they could either apply the policy to that request, or since it came before the policy was created, consider the Mysliwski request on it’s own merit and not use the policy in this case.
The board also accepted the resignations of three teachers in the district. High School science teachers Michael Bottum and Debbie Canner and speech and language teacher Kathy Pluer will all leave the district at the end of the ear. Hibner and the board members expressed gratitude for their many years of service and wished them well in their future endeavors.
