By Emily Hoffman
    The Wauneta Breeze
    
     The Wauneta-Palisade school board met in special session on Friday night to approve the voter resolution to move Wauneta's kindergarten through fourth grade to Palisade to attend school.
     Two district patrons attended the meeting, held at the Palisade Attendance Center Library.
     After reading the proposition to move Wauneta's K-4 to Palisade, the board approved it. They will hold a special election on Tuesday, May 17, to put the proposition before registered voters in the original Wauneta school district.
     The resolution reads as follows:
     Shall the Board of Education of Wauneta-Palisade Public Schools be authorized in its discretion to discontinue or alter the grade makeup of the elementary attendance center within the former Wauneta Public School district at the end of the 2004-2005 school year and to further be authorized in its discretion to re-open such attendance center or to restructure its grade makeup, all without the necessity of a further vote of the legal voters of the former Wauneta Public School district?
     A vote for the proposition will allow the school board to move the Wauneta kindergarten through grade four to Palisade, and to move them back to Wauneta, without another vote of the original Wauneta school district, at the school board's discretion.
     A vote against will not allow the board to move Wauneta's grade school students. WP Superintendent Charles Isom has indicated in the event the vote fails, he will combine grades one and two, and grades three and four into single classrooms, leaving each attendance center with the two combined classes and their own kindergarten. Palisade would contine to hold classes for grades five and six, which would not be combined.
     Isom will be in charge of setting up the election. He said it will most likely be held at the Wauneta Attendance Center gym.
     Isom said he will be scheduling public forums to explain the plan to move the K-4. He said anyone can stop by his office and ask questions concerning the upcoming changes.
     In other action the board voted to recognize the Wauneta-Palisade Education Association as the negotiations body for teachers. They will negotiate with the board concerning salaries, insurance, extra duty assignments and staff development.