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Show Sat/Sun/Mon/Tuea, April 2-5,2005 The Park Record A-10 District gets favorable rate on $5M bond issue today." said Von Horlin. district business manager. "I think we hit the market at a very good time."' said board member Vern Christcnscn, who runs his own investment firm. Park City is a "catchy name." By JARED WHIT LEY Matsumori said, so many brokerage houses look forward to bidOf the Record staff To help pay for the upcoming ding on local bonds. It's well-rated, too. Under the high school renovation, the Park City School District issued $5 mil- Fitch Ratings system, the school lion worth of bonds this week. district was upgraded recently Because interest rales are low. from an AA to an AA+ bond ratlocal taxes should be unaffected, ing. A more favorable rating reflects the district's strong ecoor even go down slightly. "The perception is thai rales nomic and financial performance, are going to rise." said James along with reliable completion of Matsumori. the district's financial its debt payments. AA+ is the second-best bond adviser, at Tuesday evening's rating. 'Hie only Utah school disSchool Board meeting. The Atlanta-based firm tricts with the best rating, AAA, Sunlrusl Capital Markets offered arc Jordan and Salt Lake because a 3.75 interest rale on the $5 mil- of their large economic base. lion bonds. They are the last of Matsumori said. This year, district residents $30 million worth of school bonds that Park City voters approved in complete payment on a comparable issuance of bonds. Because of 1999. ""! think we reaped the benefits the favorable rate on the new School Board also discusses drop-out rate, school uniforms bonds, local taxes will probably be unaffected. They could go down "nominally" - about $1 for every $500 paid, according to Christcnsen. Left Behind requirements, high schools arc accountable for dropout rates starting in grade 10. not just in the senior year. This can be complicated to 12, said Mark Pciersen, the Utah State Office of Education spokesman, in a phone interview Thursday. Property modification The School Board also High school drop-out rate approved two small modiHorlin reported on / think we hit the market at a very neat ions to district propcrthe graduation and drop' ty. The Park City out\ale of students in gOOU time. Chamber/Bureau will the Park City School expand the size of the District. Annually, baseball field backstop closest to the district between 2.4 and 3.2 peroffices at 2700 Kearns cent of seniors drop-out Vern Christensen Blvd. The goal is to preof school over the last School Board member vent stray balls from going several years. •"•™ into the parking lot. the "I would say between " nearby creek or any win2.4 and 3.2 percent is a dows. low drop-out rate." said Kim track. Hortin said, especially p The second modification is for Carson. School Board vice presi- when factoring in students who move but don't tell the district a part of the sewer line that the dent. Basin Water "We do a good job keeping our where they're moving to. Park Snyderville City needs to accumulate more Reclamation District will build students." Hortin said. But that statistic measures just data before it can release a reli- from Parley's Summit to Kimball seniors who drop out. not includ- able statistic on overall drop outs. Junction. The line will run along the northern perimeter of the ing those who might drop out in he continued. Jeremy Ranch Elementary The Utah drop-out rate is 15 earlier years. As part of the federal No Child percent between grades 10 and School property, on a thin strip of here in Park City GOURTESY OF HEIDI MATTHEWS Playing "Harold Hill," Caleb Figge leads the cast of Treasure Mountain Middle School's performance of "The Music Man," which played this week. Jon Bushnell plays "Mayor Shinn" (loft) and Brittany Gebo was a quartet member. The play was directed by teacher Zachary Ziiinbrunhen. land behind the bus garage, according to water reclamation district engineer Bryan Atwood. "('Hie land) isn't something we could consider to be of any particular value," said David Chaplin, president of the School Board. School uniform*? The School Board reviewed its school uniform policy. The board neither encourages nor discourages uniforms, but the policy establishes how a school's principal, parent-teacher group or site council could implement a uniform standard. If at least half of the families at a Park Cily school vote on uniforms, and 60 percent vote yes. the school will need to get uniforms. While the issue doesn't come up frequently, district officials want to have protocol in case it ever does. "I think it's important to keep it," hoard Carson said about the policy. Weapons possession on decline Education. "We can be observant ... we can cut it off at the pass before something does happen." The 2002-03 school year yielded 580 reported weapons possesSALT LAKE CITY (AP) A sions: the previous year, officials new report by state education marked 672, Larsen said. officials shows weapons possesThis school year, a Granger sion incidents may be on the High student was arrested and decline in Utah schools, but prin- accused of having a "hit list." A cipals still confiscated more than Northridge High student allegedSO firearms carried on their cam- ly brought a gun to school, and puses last year. four Uintah High students were The survey, obtained by the charged in an alleged school Dcseret Morning News, says bomb plot. Utah schools reported 53S inciLast week, a girl at Canyon dents of weapons possession - View High School in Cedar City firearms, pellet guns, explosive was arrested after a threatening devices, knives and fakes - in the note was found. 2003-04 school year. The prohibited behaviors Of those, 84 incidents report, required by state and fedinvolved real firearms - including eral law, indicates such incidents three handguns found in elemen- have been a feature in Utah tary schools. In all, 30 handguns, schools for years, but there is an live shotguns and 49 "other ebb and flow. firearms" incidents were reportArson dipped from 66 in 2002ed. 03 to 61 in 2003-04. but it's still While the numbers may fluc- not as low as the 49 reported in tuate, officials say overall 2001-02. Other incidents, includweapons possession incidents are ing aggravated assault, tobacco, down for the third consecutive alcohol and drug abuse, however, year. are on the rise. "A report such as this shows, Tobacco reports went from yeah, these things are happening. 640 incidents in 2002-03 to 695 But our schools arc doing some- last school year. Alcohol and thing," said Verne Larsen. a drugs rose from 1.357 to 1,433. spokesman for the state Office of -•-and aggravated assaults more Utah kids with guns in schools down for third straight year than tripled from 92 to 317 last school year. The reports aren't without their discrepancies. The Utah State University online database, where principals file reports, includes five pages of definitions on what constitutes an offense. However, in some instances, there's disagreement on what terms mean. Truancy, for example, is defined as unauthorized absence from an assigned class or activity during school hours. Schools arc supposed to report "any truancy where parents are notified in writing or any other administrative action is taken." But the numbers can be unreliable. Davis District last year reported 1,844 truancies - the most in Utah - whereas the Granite District, which is larger, reported two. Granite spokesman Randy Ripplinger called the discrepancy "a definitions difference." 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