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Show Safety Aflatters Discussed At School Meeting Mouli resident, V. M. U i in pi-11 met. with thei (Irand District I'.oard (if Edih-at ion Monday 1 1 i wf 1 1 to point out n numlioi' of areas when" .student snf'.-ty snf'.-ty mii'ht be iinprovcd. Mi. I'impell sptvil'iciilly poi'tt-ed poi'tt-ed to flashini! school zone lights nt the cU'iiientiiry scliools, ouo of which did not work at nil and the. oilier havin-v ono lilit tiitssinvr. lie outlined r number of other areas whore he believed safety could be improyed. Police Chief Mclvin S. D.ilton, also at the meeting, meet-ing, explained his depart, ment's function with re Kard to safety, saying that pidice patrols are mount, ed each morning r.ud ev-eninjr ev-eninjr when children are nrriying at or leaving the school grounds, lie alsti slated that lie would nee to the mal f uni t inning safety sa-fety lights, which worn repaired Tuesday by Utah Power & Light crews fol. lowing a request by th l Chief. In other business, Superintendent Super-intendent C. Robert Sund-wall Sund-wall reported that im. plementation of the ne.v dress code at Grand Colin, ty High. School appeared to be working out fino, and the Hoard adopted tho regulation for both tin Junior High and llig'i School. Mr. Sundwall also reported that he had been in contact with Feilcr:l officials relative to th 3 starting of a "I loadstar'' program in the District. Actum on this matter vias tabled pending the pres. entation of more deUi.lea plans. The Board formally authorized au-thorized the administration administra-tion to proceed with rn-employment rn-employment of teacher for the coming year, and to fill .such vacancies as might exist at the end of the year. Teacher valuations valu-ations were comple'ed by the Board last week. Superintendent Sun Iwrll reported that average dully dul-ly enrollment in the Dis-. Dis-. t rit-t was running neaily 200 under the figuie for the same period a year ago. As a resuk, tncom ing funds from the Stato Uniform School Fund were not as high as anticipated anticipat-ed in the budget earliei this year. Howevci. since funding from the Federal government under Public Law 874 was coming in at a higher figcre than anticipated an-ticipated in the budget, it was felt that the District could end the ye? r in the-black the-black by watching expen. ditures closely for the remainder of this fiscal year. The Board will meet next Monday at Helen M. Knight elementary school U hear a spec ial report from the Committee on Knvi ronmetal Education . The next regular mcetii.H of the board will be on April 12. |