The North Wasco County School District 21 Board of Directors will create policies and procedures to allow them to move forward with consideration of renaming Colonel Wright Elementary School. The district has been receiving citizen input urging them to take the name of Colonel George Wright off the school, citing his brutal treatment of Native Americans during the settlement of the Pacific Northwest, but also received other comments asking them to keep the name as is. Board chair John Nelson says he, board member Jose Aparicio, and interim superintendent Theresa Peters have been looking at other district’s naming policies, and once D-21 establishes their own and a policy on creating committees, the board will put together a panel with a cross section of the community to develop recommendations to the board. Board members reached consensus to begin that process.