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Show School Bond Election Scheduled For May 9 After considerable review and study at their last board meeting, meet-ing, the Alpine District Board of Education, by unanimous vote, moved to ask its patrons to support the board in an $8,000,000 dollar bond election. The election is planned for May 9. In a talk before the PTA at the high school in Pleasant Grove last Thursday, Superintendent Superin-tendent Dan Peterson outlined some $10 million dollars worth of construction needs, to meet obsolescence and growth factors, fac-tors, and said that of primary concern was the construction of a new Jr. High School in Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove. American Fork and Orem also al-so need new Jr. High schools, and these three structures are listed at a probable cost of about $8,500,000. The other money mon-ey is needed for renovation of existing structures, and to provide pro-vide improvement of vocational vocation-al offerings in secondary school areas. Superintendent Peterson said "move-in" students coming into in-to the district at the annual rate of a full sized elementary school was the major factor in the growth of Alpine District. This with the obsolescence of the early 1910-1920 school buildings buil-dings made the board move to bond and meet the demands of increased school building needs on a long range approach. The bonding approach tends to take advantage of several factors, state building aid, estimated es-timated at about $2 million over ov-er the next several years. The challenge of continued inflation (building costs are increasing at an alarming rate per year) and a bond program would lend itself to no tax increase, the time factor, expressed in immediate needs. No doubt during the next few weeks before the bond election the school board will give us a multitude of additional factors fac-tors toward getting us to pass the bond election on May 9. |
