Basin Elementary school board trustee Terry Heaton will be replaced by Basin resident DeDe Rhodes when his term expires in May.
Rhodes, who previously served on Basin’s water and sewer board and a transportation board in Texas years ago, has been working with a group of community volunteers to help the school reopen since it entered non-operational status last June.
“The best way I can help now is to get on the school board to see if we can save the school,” said Rhodes, adding that the school board has had difficulty communicating with the state Office of Public Instruction.
“They’re still having issues with OPI,” she said. “I think I can do more.”
Heaton was appointed to the Basin school board in February 2022 following the resignation of a trustee whose term would have ended in May 2023. “After my appointment expired, I began serving a full three-year term won by acclamation,” he said.
Rhodes plans to continue working with her husband Richard, who has filed to run for Jefferson County Commissioner, school board member Scott Brock, and others, to fix up a church-owned Basin home they plan to offer rent-free to the school’s expected new teacher.
