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Show CirorasOecd scste! assy All the public hearings, task force investigations, in-vestigations, and surveys will come to a tod Thursday at 6:30 p.m. as the Uintah Uin-tah School Board will make a decision about what to do next year concerning jrtwded schools. a meeting last week with administrators ad-ministrators and staff, the board most- y discussed the feasibility of double sessions. 1 According to Dr. Ed Oscarson, district board member, most of the principals said their teachers and staff preferred double sessions rather than year-round schools. "We haven't time for year-round schools next year," Dr. Oscarson said. "Just guessing, it would cost about $1 i million to air condition the buildings for lyear-round school," he said. Most of the school board's money is eannarked for the construction of two j. elementary schools in Davis and on the I test side, which doesn't leave enough I money for moveable classrooms to be purchased as a temporary solution to the over-crowding problem, Oscarson said. Oscarson said it would cost about $600,000 for the moveable units. According to Superintendent Phillip Ellis, it is still the school board's position, posi-tion, which was exposed several months mon-ths ago, to first construct as many schools as needed, use double sessions as a temporary solution to construction needs, and to go to year-round schools when money or time is not available to construct the needed facilities, or the community recommends year-round schools. Ellis said that on the west side there is enough facilities for the students next year and with the new elementary school the year after, "they have no problems." Oscarson said that he is for double sessions in the junior high school for one year and then bonding to build new schools. "The only way there'll be a bond is if the people initiate it. We've got our . hands slapped already in bonding," U Oscarson said. To gain the needed financial support for the growth in the schools, the Financial Finan-cial Task Force recommended that energy companies need to increase funding fun-ding and that bond and leeway taxes be implemented. Public opinion concerning the overcrowding over-crowding situation in the school is varied in the district. According to a survey conducted by the school district, 26 people said they strongly agree with year-round schooling, 27 agreed, 15 disagreed and 17 strongly disagree. Thirteen people said they strongly agreed with double sessions if ' necessary, 29 said they agreed, 21 said they disagree and 16 strongly disagreed. About 700 surveys were sent out to people in the Ashley Valley and only 85 were returned, so district staff doubt the validity of the survey. "The survey was too lengthy," remarked Ellis about why very few people responded to the survey. |