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Show Jiool bond sale confirmed; board discusses business I 3 School District Board of tion at their meeting 'S, confirmed the sale of llpo school building and ing bonds, series A and 3, on the highest bid sub-fc sub-fc 1 y Continental Bank and ,o., Salt Lake City, nr business specifically .oping Springville, taken r the board, follows: ' igville Mayor, City Coun cil and attorney meeting with the board, recommended that the proposed sewer line run south to the new road from the west side of the new high school and then run west, a distance equal to the distance if the sewer were to run west from the building and then north along Weight Avenue to the city line. The Springville city engineer stated the cost would be approximately $6,000. It was decided that the Board would accept the recommendation recommenda-tion as submitted by the council coun-cil providing the board receives a rebate at the regular established estab-lished rate, on all sewer connections connec-tions sold by the City until January Jan-uary 1, 1976, which connect on to the portion of sewer installed by the Board of Education and that the city would provide for at least two sewer connections through Brookside to serve the homes of Nolan and Vaughn Weight on Weight Avenue. It was also decided that the board take steps to deed to Utah County enough land for a road right-of-way which will run along the west perimeter of the school property to continue con-tinue to and connect to the (Continued back page Col. 5) School board minutes (Continued from Page One.) curve at the north end of Weight Avenue. It was understood under-stood that Attorney Robert J. Sumsion would prepare the necessary ne-cessary deeds. This would enable en-able the county to gravel the road. The question of water rights and the possibility of trading irrigation water for culinary water was discussed. No decisions deci-sions were made regarding the possible trade, but the Board was assured by the Mayor and Council that the city would work cooperatively with the Board on this program. The Superintendent reviewed highlights and implications of the tort liability law received during the Tort Liability Workshop Work-shop held at USU February 24-25. 24-25. The Board instructed the supermLtjuueiiL lu coiiLctct ricu Morton and Company and ask that their representative meet with the Board March 15 and give some estimates on coverage cover-age costs. Superintendent Stansfield reported re-ported on his attendance at the Atlantic City School Administrators Adminis-trators Convention and on contacts con-tacts made in Washington, D.C. in the U.S. Office of Education, with Senator Wallace F. Bennett, Ben-nett, Senator Frank E. Moss, Congressman David S. King and Lawrence J. Burton with respect res-pect to the school lunch program pro-gram and the Title I, II and III monies due Utah under Public Pub-lic Law 89-10. The superintendent superinten-dent stated that Senator Moss and Congressman Burton's office of-fice staffs made it possible for him to meet and talk to members mem-bers of the staff in the U.S. Office of Education. Supt. Stansfield asked the Board to review its present policy pol-icy regarding board and staff members attending workshops and conventions. After considerable consid-erable discussion, the Board made no change in its present policy other than to let the superintendent su-perintendent determine the desirability de-sirability of having members of the staff attend special meetings meet-ings held within the Intermoun-tain Intermoun-tain or West Coast Regions. Supt. Stansfield reported he had held a special meeting with principals, visiting teachers and District's Neighborhood Youth Corps Application for the 1966 summer program, was first reduced re-duced from 86 participants to 60, then from 60 to 30. The superintendent and President Pres-ident William H. Sorensen scheduled March 14 and 15 for board visits to schools of the district with the regular meeting meet-ing of the board to be Tuesday, March 15, 7:00 p.m. in the district dist-rict office. Supt. Stansfield reviewed results re-sults of a district drop-out study in secondary schools. The report showed one drop-out in the Springville senior high in the physical and mental disability classification; one in junior high, for work; three in both junior and senior high schools in the armed services; 11 dropouts drop-outs in junior high school and 13 in the senior high school as result of marriage or pregnan- nurses to discuss the problem ot student absences and loss of state funds through student absenteeism. ab-senteeism. Guidelines were set up which provide for an enlarged en-larged visiting teacher program to contact all students who can profit by teaching in the home during convalescence. Supt. Stansfield reported the cy; two in the junior high and 11 in the senior high, under age 18, not graduated group; eight were listed in the senior high as incorrigibles; four in the senior high for failure in school work; other reasons, one in junior high and three in the senior high. Marriage or pregnancy dropouts drop-outs were higher in all schools of the district than for any other reason, except for 21 dropouts drop-outs in Payson senior high for failure in school work, the report re-port showed. Springville dropouts drop-outs for these reasons were fewer than in Payson, or Spanish Span-ish Fork schools. C. J. Wendel, clerk, presented present-ed a letter to the Board from Attorney Robert J. Sumsion suggesting the Board take action ac-tion to issue a Quit Claim Deed which would do away with the conflict between the estimated fence line and the District's record title at the Sage Creek Elementary School site. The effect ef-fect of executing and delivering the deed would be to establish the existing fence line as the recorded boundary between the properties on the south. The Clerk assured the Board that it is understood that the conveyance con-veyance shall in no way be construed as relocating or in any manner changing the existing exis-ting fence line between the Reid L. Barney property described des-cribed and the tract owned by Nebo School District; and that that the said fence line shall remain the division boundarv. |