Within hours of the board's vote, a sign erected by the district which had promoted the future location at the high school for four years was removed.
Santa Fe High School officials remove memorial marker sign during board meeting years after the mass school shooting in Texas.In a move that caught organizers off guard, district officials are seeking a possible new location for a planned memorial park to honor those killed and the survivors of the May 18, 2018, mass shooting at Santa Fe High School.
"We had no idea the SFISD Board of Trustees was discussing the alternative location," Megan Grove, the chair of theUnbeknownst to those involved in planning the memorial park, the district asked the school attorney, Ellen Spalding, to look at all legal and "creative" options to make room for the memorial at the high school, as has been the plan since the design was initially proposed in the summer of 2020.
Control of the land was never a concern for the Santa Fe Ten Memorial Foundation as intentions early on were that the organization would donate the memorial and even cover maintenance costs for a while. Spalding never addressed the possibility of the memorial and associated costs being donated, which according to the law, is allowed. It's a process used for decades by districts across the state.Even when board member Angie Lambert asked if there were any other options, neither Spalding nor other board officials acknowledged the possibility of a memorial donation from the foundation.
School Trustee Patrick Kelly seemed to hint at some silent opposition to the memorial at the high school.
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