The donated uniforms have some yellow in addition to the school colors of red and white. Specifications require uniforms to be red and white, with allowance for some blacks and grays, Superintendent Diane Fox stated at a recent meeting.

Board President Clyde Baker took an informal poll of the board members, who said they would be in favor of accepting the uniforms on the condition a policy is set in place for a uniform process in the future.

“Part of what we need to do is to make sure that we do this properly,” Baker said. “There are steps that we have to do for everything we accept. We have to adjust our policies and go through the proper steps to do this stuff.”

Before the board can accept the donation, the district will have to form new policies, do first and second readings of them and vote on them at the Feb. 1 board meeting, Baker said.

Elizabeth Amell, of Saranac Lake, addresses the board about the uniform donation at its Wednesday meeting. (Enterprise photo — Kelly Carroll)

“There isn’t any reason to do anything tonight other than your straw poll and ask the policy committee to go back, put this all together in a nice, clear way that helps us make sure we follow procedures and policy and come back with resolutions at the appropriate time that clearly spell out what we need to do,” board member Jeremy Evans said.

The board approved two resolutions for the policy committee to create a new district uniform policy of acceptable colors to include red, white, black, gray and gold, and to review and adjust the district’s policy of accepting gifts and grants.

“We’ll make sure we’re all covered on everything so we don’t run into any issues down the road,” Baker said.

Board Vice President Aurora White asked if the district uniform policy would include acceptable logos.

Baker said there are no set logos at this point, but it is something the policy committee should review in conjunction with the sports committee.

Approximately 20 to 25 community members attended the special meeting, which took less than a half an hour, but only one resident spoke during the public comment period.

Elizabeth Amell of Saranac Lake has four children, one who has already graduated through the school district and three who are current students.

“I did obviously come to hear what was said about the jerseys,” she said. “Given the discussion that just happened, I just wanted to say thank you to everybody for going through the whole process, for making, in my opinion, just my opinion, the right decision. I know it’s probably not an easy discussion to have, and I’m positive it’s not easy to sit in your seats at all, so at this point in time, all I want to say is thank you very much.”