Show School board approves roves federal funds application Uintah School District was authorized by its Board of Education at its meeting January 26 to make application application ap ap- placation for federal funds to establish a career education center Dr L L. Wayne Reid and Dr Colleen Colton presented the career education center proposal to the Board during which it was stated the district will receive approximately to establish a center that would be utilized on a district wide scale THE TIU CENTER would be in the form of a trailer designed l to travel to the individual schools in the district where aides stationed at each school will conduct career education classes The pair of educators explained to the board the program will be initiated for two years at no cost to the district The district will receive the federal monies to establish the program the first year with provisions to pick up all costs and salaries the second year The district will then thin have the option of retaining the program for the third year or dropping it it Indications are if the district decides to continue it the Uintah Basin Association of Governments Governments Govern Govern- ments may allocate funds for the continuance The career education career program if accepted will implement the career education currently being taught throughout the school district It was mentioned before the vote that the making of application for the funds Continued on Page 16 J I Ii II i fie a tr yf iJ j s' s t THE FIRST SEASON for ice skating at the Bicentennial pavilion has been enjoyed by old and young youn during the past freezing cold J J weather The colder temperature has made smoother ice after flooding School board boord a I Continued from Page i 1 in no way binds the district to accepting the program The district still maintains maintains maintains main main- the option of ot rejecting the funds even after the funds allocation approval approval ap ap- by the federal government A MEETING WITH the architectural firm irm of ot Silver and Allsop resulted in the delay of the boards board's decision to accept acceptor or reject plans previously drawn up for lor forthe forthe I the new elementary school The decision to delay action for tor financial reasons centered around saving approximately 10 to in architectural architectural architectural ar ar- fees by using plans plans drawn for tor an elementary school in another district and revising them or having building plans drawn specifically for Uintah School District and eliminating what many feel to be wasted space if il the revised plans are used Dale Allsop stated the savings by having new plans drawn up and cutting down such items as very wide hall space could add up to about Dr Colleen Colton felt the district would save more money by choosing an economical plan designed for our needs In addition to possibly saving space thereby cutting down the square footage costs the plans would probably be more functional for our program The board decided to delay action on building plans until the first meeting in February IN OTHER BOARD action the Vernal Jr High School Bands Band's request to participate in the Utah State University Invitational on March 31 the board announced they will consider all applications for Sabbatical Leave after the March 1 filing deadline the board decided after hearing that the County Commissioners rejected the proposal to trade items of equal value for a surplus school bus to sell seIl the bus to Mr Charles Potter for Mr Frank Andreason informed the board the activity bus was outfitted and ready for operation He also mentioned the bus will be used for the first time to transport the wrestling team to Green River the board heard a proposal to have havethe havethe havethe the Uintah Basin Vocational Center move one of their diesel classes to Uintah High from Roosevelt The move would bring about in equipment to Vernal from where approximately 80 percent of the current class enrollment travels the the needs assessment on the West WestSide WestSide WestSide Side schools will begin as soon as Mr Dick Burbidge's staff can outline the specifications Reid reported the Utah High School Activities Association voted 1614 1614 1614 16 14 to keep Union High School in the region next year It was also reported there exists a strong possibility that Alta or Jordan High School will be admitted to the region next year Another motion by the authorized work to begin on the new realignment immediately to help in scheduling Reid also informed the board there is currently a movement to have all the schools in the state play playas as independents independents independents in in- dependents and then come together for region tournaments because of the problems encountered with traveling and time spent from school To go along with that another proposal is to have just boys and girls varsity sports and develop strong mural intra-mural programs to feed the varsity teams prospective names for the new elementary school were submitted to the board Some of the names submitted submitted submitted sub sub- by district personnel include Rex Buckskin Split Mountain and Panorama to name a few ew |