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• MOUNDS VIEW SCHOOL DISTRICT • • S.chool ,..board to divvy up gymp time ub c use s SHELBY NIcoLAus-DUNsKI "There are not enough school Bob Teigen says it's hard to keep kids playing basket- facilities. That's what it all breaks ball in the Mounds View Basketball Association from 9 down to." 1610 p.m.on school nights. 75-7bat's the association's practice time slot—after the —John Mojsiej* g training and dance classes that precede it for gym I �time. "We're losing a lot of kids,"Tiegen said of the basket- closer relationship with city parks and recreation depart- j ball program for District 621 youngsters. ments in the Irondale High School area 3 "Dog training is important,But why do we have it in Mojsiej added that the Mounds View association also *Turtle Lake(elementary school)in the main gym?Tur- declined to participate on his committee. *e Lake has the best gym in the district,"he said. But some board members feel that groups like the bas- Tiegen's plea to give the youth basketball program a ketball association should receive better time slots in higher priority for a shrinking amount of school gym school gyms since they provide a service the district can zee became a part of discussion by the school board no longer afford. l week- "The bottom line is children are being penalized . r;-w.The board is updating its policy for the public use of because there was some miscommunication," Board school facilities. And the board's debate seemed to be Member Lynda Thorland. -cantered on how to prioritize non-school groups which The revamped policy gives first priority to all state- provide programs for District 621 students. mandated activities. The remaining groups are priori- :,"Ibere are not enough school facilities.That's what it tized in the following order: directly related school all breaks down to,"said John Mojsiej,a member of the orgnizations; municipal and county government func- Community Education Advisory Council task force lions;other District 621 community groups; and, lastly, Which studied the policy. all other authorized groups. The Mounds View Basketball Association is not a dis- "It gets a little tricky when park and recreation takes trio organization. However, it provides a co-cunicular over and doesn't offer much K-12 stuff," Superinten- activity for 900 District 621 students in grades three dent Burt Nygren said. Nygren suggested the board through eight. The program was cut by the school dis- "have some strings attached" that would require the trio during the budget crunch of the 1980s. park and recreation program to benefit children in order Still, it is placed lower on the priority list than the to get gym time. Irondale Basketball Association,which seems to share a •