By Lexi MooreThe Hills-Beaver Creek Personnel and Building committees gave presentations during a meeting Monday night.Gary Esselink, chair of the Personnel Committee, presented the board with the committee’s plan to encourage community pride."We want to get community passion and fire back at H-BC," he said. "It has to start within our school with our staff, our students and the board."Committee members have adopted a new district motto, "Excellence is an Attitude," which they hope will encourage students and staff to strive to be better."We don’t want to accept mediocrity," Esselink said. "We want to do better."Plans to build community passion are still being formulated, but the district hopes to have many of them ready for the start of the new school year.First on the agenda is replacing the bleachers in the gym and possibly expanding the gym on the north side.Lloyd DeBoer, Buildings and Grounds Committee Chairman, reported to the board on progress being made with both of these projects.Last night, a group of volunteers met to begin disassembling the old bleachers. One set of bleachers will be saved for use on the stage during games. The rest will be broken down into their raw materials. Metal will be given to Doug Boeve, while the wood will be saved for sale on an upcoming auction.The new bleachers, which are being stored in the agriculture building, will be installed once the old bleachers have been removed.DeBoer and David Deragisch discussed the possibility of moving the opening for the stage back several feet, creating space for the players to sit on the north side of the gym during games.Coaches and players have often complained about having to sit in the stands with the fans. They claim it is a distraction and in the winter, water tracked in by spectators is a problem for the players.The new plan would decrease the size of the stage by several feet, creating an area for chairs and a scoring table to sit courtside in front of the stage on the north side of the gym.The Building Committee members are still gathering quotes for the project but warned the board they may need to call a special meeting in July to get approval for the project.If the board approves the project, work would begin immediately with the intent to be finished for the first home volleyball game on August 28.In other school news:üStaff at the high school have finished the installation of 45 new e-Mac computers. The purchase of the new computers was approved by the board during a meeting earlier this year.The school plans to sell the old computers in August. They will be available to staff as of Aug. 1 and to the public on Aug. 7. The computers range between 12 and 16 years old, but all work. The school will not offer any kind of warranty on the systems. Computers that are not sold will be placed on an auction at the end of the summer.New computers will be installed at the Beaver Creek Elementary School following the conclusion of the Book of the Week Club, which uses some of the affected classroom space.üThe board recognized and congratulated Lyntausha Kuehl on the publication of her poem Shadow.üTaking care of regular summer business, the board approved new versions of the High School Handbook, the Elementary School Handbook, the Staff Handbook, the Little Patriot Academy Handbook and Attachment 99.Few changes were made to the handbooks. The most notable change was made to the Little Patriot Academy Handbook. The enrollment cutoff date was changed from May 1 to Sept. 1. The preschool program is now open to all children who are at least 3 years old by Sept. 1.