Board approves retention pond pumping at school site, approves personnel changes

Summerland Board of Education members worked through a number of agenda items, Feb. 16, during the board’s monthly meeting.

Superintedent Kyle Finke shared potential pricing to pump water from the retention pond, located on the northeast corner of school property.

Water should drain from the pond, but it’s been slow to leech from the pond since it was built.

Board president Ed Nordby said standing water, of any kind, is a liability.

According to Finke, Bob Napier, who farms the land surrounding the school, submitted a cost of approximately $16,595, to pump the water through his irrigation syst...