Show Mrs Knight Speaks On Plans II t For Building At Lions Meeting Taking all nit figures Int Into consideration con the conclusion has been reached that the minimum number of additional classrooms classroom needed to take care of children now on our records arc are six abc at the Southeast elementary school and anda a new high school consisting of 13 rooms and a gymnasium Helen M M. Knight superintendent Grand County School District told members of the Moab Lions club Monday night As speaker er at the tM meeting Mrs Knight explained that this amount of building would take care of normal growth only for forthe forthe forthe the next three or four years Mrs Knight also presented findings of the Utah Education Association which stated that Grand county should have an additional 34 classrooms in order order or- or der to tal take e care of needs for forthe forthe forthe the coming school year In presenting population trends trend Mrs Knight presented figures from the Bureau of Economic and Business Research University sity of Utah Based on past population pop pop- increases and projecting thase into the past 12 years there would be an estimated graduates in the spring of 1967 1961 Taking the actual enrollment of the present first grade and not considering any population gr growth the twelve year period the number of graduates would be which Is over more than the number of seniors of the current year Mrs Knight also presented economic ec ec- economic data concerning Grand county in comparison to other districts One of the districts Murray City had an assessed valuation of In 1958 with school attendance of and a total tax levy of mills For the same year Grand county had an al assessed s Hon tion of a t school attendance at- at at attendance of 1305 and a levy of ot I 30 mills In the face of these predictions predictions lions and figures our plans call for n t very conservative building program We and the architect feel fee that the building now planned plan plan- ned can be successfully taken care of on the estimated assessed valuation n of which certainly will be on a conservative conservative conserva conserva- tive estimate for next year she said What the future holds In th the way of Industrial growth is your guess as well as mine mina We do know the num number er of children that are here now and that they are arc our responsibility she con con- |