Tonight’s School Board meeting is shaping up to be a long haul, with a packed regular agenda bookended by a study session and a possible executive session.

The study session is set to begin at 5:30 p.m. in the District Learning Center this evening, March 4, and is open to the public. The focus of the session is an early overview of the 2015-16 budget.

The regular meeting is expected to begin at around 6:30 p.m. and will begin with a presentation by McDowell Mountain Elementary School concerning testing, student performance, site programs, etc.

Later in the evening, the board will discuss administrative contract renewals, as well as a possible bond renewal resolution for the coming year.

A topic of discussion at the previous two board meetings, members will finally vote on the high school policy involving repeating a course, with committee recommendations under consideration.

Also carrying over from a previous meeting is a proposed pickleball court reconfiguration, which the local club is hoping to work in tangent with the district to orchestrate.

After all of the regular business is wrapped up, the board may go into a closed executive session to meet with representatives of the public to receive input and instruction in regards to the district’s negotiations with employee organizations regarding salaries, compensation, fringe benefits and the like.