Havre schools survey on COVID relief fund use ends Friday

Havre Daily News staff

Havre Public School Superintendent Craig Mueller reminded people today that the deadline is Friday for people to weigh in on what the Havre Public School District should do with COVID-19 relief dollars.

The district issued a survey for people to fill out while it works on its Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund plans.

The fund contains around $7 million in COVID-19 relief and Mueller said the school system needs to submit a plan to the Montana Office of Public Instruction for how they plan to use these funds over the next few years.

The community is invited to take the survey online which will ask about various issues facing the school right now and how important they feel each of these issues are to address through COVID-19 relief funds.

The survey can be found at HPS’ website at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScN8TIWNscfuuyVq5K1mihzK8Nsn2x6NWKsnTH3I1bhzWwnFw/viewform .

Mueller said last week that data obtained from this survey will be vital in creating a prioritization list for how money will be spent.

“Please, please take the survey,” he said.

He also specifically encouraged students to take the survey and make their voices heard, as they are the most directly affected by many of the issues and they’re observations are very valuable.

Mueller said the survey will hopefully answer any questions people have about the fund as well.

He said last week the public will have more opportunity for making comments after the survey closes Friday.