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Show Board hires principal By LYNKTTE SAWYER Record Correspondent Leon Hollingshead has accepted the position ol principal at Parowan High School, and will begin his duties when the 11)81-82 school year commences. Hollingshead was oliered the position by the Iron County School Board alter the Board reviewed several candidates at its Tuesday meeting. Hollingshead and his wile. Marietta, will move to Parowan from Las Vegas, Nov., with their seven children which range in age from three to fifteen. v" til Las "Vegas, Hollingshead served an an educator in several forms. He taught fpr one year in a junior high school lelore instructing math at several high schools, including Clark High School, Sunset Evening High School and, most recently. Bonanza High School. He also served as Dean of Students at El Dorado High School for six years. At the regular meeting the Board also discussed a preliminary budget which will be presented at a budget hearing on June 3li. According to this draft, the budget should balance out at just under $10 million. The largest ligure in both revenues and expenditures in this budget is that of $(i.l)2(i,12( lor general maintenance and operation. Over $4 million alone will be spent on instruction. This includes in-cludes salaries, employment benefits and supplies and materials. Kent Peterson, director of business operations, indicated that although these liguies are just preliminary, he expects little or no change before their linal approval. He doesn't expect the Board to operate without a deficit this year, but as all final 11)81 liguies are not in, positive o operation costs are not known. Upon reviewing results of a questionnaire sent to area educators, the School Board was compelled to note that several views were presented concerning budget cuts, including the suggestion that lab lees for certain classes such as home economics and w ood shop be initialed. Dr. Gwyn Clark expressed the opinion that lab materials themselves must not be eliminated so as not to deter from the educational process. It was decided that the easiest way to cut expenses would be to limit transportation. tran-sportation. If possible, each class in the district will be able to take two field trips a year. However, if cuts continue to be made only very educational trips will be permitted instead of "fun and game" trips said Kent Hulet. All trips will be carefully looked at for educational value and distance. Another suggestion was to eliminate the "Ore Digger," the publication put out by the Board toarea educators. The suggestion was met with approval. From now on a Board Brief will be prepared al ter each Board meeting but all other educational news will be released to the public media. In related business, bids were received for tax anticipation notes. The school district will not receive any state tax money until December so until that time $1.2 million will be borrowed against that allotment to pay salaries and.so on. State Bank of Southern Utah submitted sub-mitted a bid of 8.93 percent interest, and the Board agreed to take this bid. |