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Show " - in - -.nci . -i : - 1 k ... ' .... ' - - ' Hannemann Talks About Upcoming Lone Peak Boundary Vote by Harlow Clark The Alpine School District Dis-trict board will be voting on a boundary issue in their November No-vember 9, 6 p.m. meeting at the ASD building, 575 North 100 East, American Fork. Board member Chrissy Hannemann, who represents Cedar Hills, Alpine and Highland, High-land, introduced herself to Cedar Ce-dar Hills' City Council during the public comment part of their Octtober 19 meeting. Public comment is supposed sup-posed to be limited to three minutes, but the issue of Cedar Hills residents being divided between schools sparked a discussion dis-cussion lasting 10 or 15 minutes. min-utes. Hannemann talked about several issues she had heard of from Cedar Hills parents, such as math teaching, class size, safety, particularly the safety concerns about having commercial com-mercial development across the street from Lone Peak High and boundaries. The district has adjusted boundaries of some schools and closed those schools to out of boundary students, stu-dents, including AFJHS, because be-cause "it's over capacity." But that's not a perfect solution, she said, because closing boundaries boundar-ies creates "divisiveness in the community." Lone Peak's borders will remain closed, but at the next meeting, the board will vote on giving "anyone east of Canyon Can-yon Road the option of opting in to attend Lone Peak High," starting with 38 10th graders in 2011, and increasing to "up to 124" by 2019. Council Members Ken Kirk and Marisa Wright commented com-mented on the fact that the meeting will be after the November No-vember 2 election. Hannemann acknowledged acknowl-edged that she was running for her third term, and said she has learned a lot from actually having hav-ing "someone up against me" this time. She told Kirk she would vote for the option and had not heard of any opposition to it. "We've heard this year after af-ter year after year after year," Wright said slowly. "It's really disheartening for me to hear that you're going to make this decision after the election." "I know of one child on our street that got into Lone Peak. Nobody knows why," Wright said, adding that the current policy splits neighborhoods and friends between schools. She also said that if the district simply opened enrollment enroll-ment to anyone in Cedar Hills, there would not be a mad dash because a lot of Cedar Hills families have deep ties to American Fork and its high school. "It's not an election decision," deci-sion," Hannemann said. "It's state law about when it has to be done. We make it every November, No-vember, regardless of election year." She gave a little background back-ground saying there are still a lot of hard feelings from when boundaries were redrawn 10 years ago to protect AFHS from depopulation when LPHS opened. AFHS now has 1989, and LPHS has 2,171, "both really maxed out." Hannemann also said that Highland students would like to enroll at Lone Peak, but there's not room for 300, just 124, "but that's still not for another nine years." Wright asked about rumors ru-mors of another north county high school. Hannemann said ASD bought land south of Micron 13 years ago for a new school "then Saratoga Springs and Eagle Mountain took off," but ASD still owns the land and could build something like a magnet school or an arts school rather than create more ugliness from another boundary bound-ary adjustment. City Manager Konrad Hildebrandt joked that it would be better to send all the Draper kids to Lehi High. "They live too far from Lone Peak. Cedar Hills is within stone throwing distance," he added. All the council members agreed the city would like the option for all residents to attend the same school, but Stephanie Martinez added that her 6th grader is a true Caveman and her 5th grader wants to go to Lone Peak. Hannemann said the vote will probably come about 20 minutes into the board meeting, meet-ing, with three in favor, one having expressed concerns, and three expressing no opposition. op-position. "If they don't speak out in opposition, you assume that they're okay with it," it was noted. H J PLEASANT GROVE vVi 1 vi TOO Kortfi N. F3 UTAH COUNTY V 5 CRE I V CORRIDOR EXPANSION f II OREM U , Illustration of UDOT work area and the alternate route for 200 in Lindon, Utah, as construction on 1-15 continues to affect surrounding streets. |
