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Show Sitfe selected 'for new west side elementcarv school After several executive sessions last Thursday, the Uintah School Board decided to locate a west side elementary elemen-tary school at the old Lapoint School site. The new west side elementary will be the same design as the elementary to be constructed in the Davis-Naples area, but it will have 12 teaching units compared to 18 in the Davis-Naples school. Hopefully the two schools will be bid at the same time which may bring a lower bid, said Superintendent Phil Ellis. Students from Tridell, Whiterocks and Lapoint will attend the new elementary. According to Ellis there are about 265 students who will attend the school. The new school will alleviate future over-crowding at Todd Elementary where the sixth grade was moved to West Junior High last year to allow more room. Bids on both schools should be out on the street this fall with construction beginning shortly after bids are awarded. Architects from Edwards and Daniels Associates, Inc., of Salt Lake City met with the school board last Thursday to report the progress of the Davis-Naples elementary, now named the East Side Elementary. JohnTaft, Edwards and Daniles, told the board that the new school is four miles from a sewer connection and an extension is waiting on EPA approval. The present 4-inch water line near the school is inadequate and a larger line would have to be approved by the Ashley Valley Water and Sewer Improvement Im-provement District. Taft said he met with the Building Review Board for the Uintah District Thursday and proposed improvement of the drains and roof of the new elementary. He recommended a steel framed building with 3'2 inches of insulation in the ceiling. Also a 3-foot brem will be put against the building to "take advantage of natural insulation." Superintendent Ellis suggested that the rooms in the school be enlarged from 912 square feet to as close to 1,000 square feet as possible. Taft told the board that it is the trend in the state to make larger classrooms. The board told the architects to go ahead and enlarge the classrooms. In other business, Dave Swanson and Scott Bowles, district employees, presented to the board an overview of their progress in using computer assisted teaching. Swanson told the board that the Uintah School District has taken the lead in the state in implementing the computer in the class room. The district has received several grants to fund the program using special education as a vehicle. Scott Bowles, Uintah High School vice prencipal, demonstrated to the board how a desk top computer and line printer is being used to individualize in-dividualize student assignments and keep a daily progress report on each student. Because of major break throughs in technology, what was once a 30-ton computer costing millions, now is no larger than a television and costs between $1,500 and $3,000, Swanson said. "The strength of the computer is its application to real world situations," Swanson said. Robert Jameson, business instructor at Uintah High School, told the board, "I was amazed at what a small microcomputer micro-computer can do." Jameson is teaching accounting and keyboarding on computers com-puters at the high school. The board awarded bids on buses and pianos to the highest bidder, and approved ap-proved the same board goals as last year from this year, but with more emphasis on the basics and communication com-munication skills. |