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The South Routt School District has the land and has secured $300,000 in Energy and Mineral Impact Grant money to build the new South Routt Early Learning Center in Yampa, but construction has not started.

The South Routt School Board will discuss the center at a meeting tonight.

"This the biggest thing we've got going in the way of construction," said Dina Murray, the district's business manager. "They want to be able to secure all the money before going too far into it."

Lane Malone, the grant writer for the South Routt, Hayden and Steamboat Springs school districts, has been working on securing more grant money for the center, which will be built in Yampa near the South Routt Elementary School.

"We also are working on selling the existing building," Murray said of 119 N. Grant Ave. "We had an offer, but it's not finalized."

Money from the sale of the Oak Creek site would go toward construction of the Yampa building.

An update on the South Routt Early Leaning Center is one of eight items to be discussed during the School Board's regularly scheduled monthly meeting at 7 p.m. today at the district's administrative offices in Oak Creek.

During the open session, which begins at 7:30 p.m., the board will discuss a policy for adding and deleting programs. The district does not have a timeline to add or delete a program or criteria for making such decisions.

In action items, the board will have its first reading of a revised valedictorian and salutatorian policy. The new policy would weight dual enrollment classes - classes a student receives college and high school credit for - higher than standard high school classes. In the case of a GPA tie, the student with the more rigorous four-year courseload will be the valedictorian.

- To reach Melinda Mawdsley, call 871-4208 or e-mail mmawdsley@steamboatpilot.com