UPDATE: List of School Naming Committe Votes Released
Here is a list of the school naming committee's votes about names for the school. This is the list from The Daily Advertiser:
Here is a complete breakdown of how committee members voted:
Member: Dan Bloomer
First choice: Veterans Memorial High School
Second choice: Caneview High School
Third choice: Cypress High School
Fourth choice: Youngsville High School
Member: Ginger Rabalais
First choice: Veterans Memorial High School
Second choice: Youngsville High School
Third choice: Caneview High School
Fourth choice: Cypress High School
Member: Michelle Kreamer
First choice: Caneview High School
Second choice: Cypress High School
Third choice: Veterans Memorial High School
Fourth choice: Youngsville High School
Member: Courtney DiBetta
First choice: Caneview High School
Second choice: Veterans Memorial High School
Third choice: Youngsville High School
Fourth choice: Cypress High School
Member: Rollan Moore
First choice: Youngsville High School
Second choice: Caneview High School
Third choice: Cypress High School
Fourth choice: Veterans Memorial High School
Member: Matt Romero
First choice: Youngsville High School
Second choice: Caneview High School
(No third or fourth choices listed)
Member: J.P. Stoshak
First choice: Cypress High School
Second choice: Caneview High School
(No third or fourth choices listed)
Member: Misty White
First choice: Cypress High School
Second choice: Veterans Memorial High School
Third choice: Caneview High School
Fourth choice: Youngsville High School
Member: Mike Kreamer
First choice: Caneview High School
Second choice: Cypress High School
Third choice: Youngsville High School
Fourth choice: Veterans Memorial High School
Member: Judy Cox
First choice: Caneview High School
Second choice: Cypress High School
Lafayette Parish School Board member for District 6, Justin Centanni, spoke with Rob and Bernie on Acadiana Morning News to give his thoughts on the naming discussion and the board's goals for the name of the new Lafayette parish high school.
I think it’s great that everyone’s so passionate about the school name. We have the citizens and residents of Youngsville advocating for Youngsville, and the city council of Youngsville passed a resolution and forwarded it to us for the school to be named Youngsville High. We also have the residents of Broussard who are very passionate and want the name to reflect that the children of Broussard will be attending as well.
Think back a year ago, the conversation we were having about the school board was very negative, and now we're building a new school where 2, 000 children will be able to go. We’re going to take a chunk of students out of Comeaux High School, the 9th largest high school in the state, and put them in a new, modern, 21st century high school. In the grand scheme of things, this is a great problem to have.
Centanni also detailed how to process will proceed now that the final 4 names have been selected
The next step is that Sandra [Billeaudeau, Lafayette Parish Schools planning director] will take the 4 names to students at Comeaux who are zoned for the school. They will vote for the name and more importantly, the mascot and the colors.
We should remind everyone that we had these small high schools in the individual municipalities in the past, and when we combined them we didn’t name them after a city, we named it Comeaux, we named it Acadiana High.
After the kids get their say, it’s going to go back to this committee who chose the four names and they’re going to take the kids input into accont and then they’re going to vote on their top two. And then in the school board, majority wins.
Listen to the full interview with Centanni by click the image above.
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