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Show Perception of honesty and timing key to bond election passing By SCOTT SUMMERILL FARMINGTON - Dan Jones reported the believability of the Davis County Board of Education and timing were the most important factors in getting the $40 million bond election for the district's new high school past voters last month. Jones, who compiled a survey of county residents last December on concerns with education in the district, told the board June 19, that 68 percent of the people polled believed the board was being honest with them. "What it really comes down to is whether people believe the ones that are espousing the information are telling the truth," he said. Jones also said timing played a big part in the election success. "If the boundary change would have been made an issue before the bond election, it would never have passed," he said. Jones pointed out that overcrowding over-crowding was the number one concern con-cern of those polled in December. The second most important concern was that of disenchantment with teachers and too many administrators, administra-tors, which totaled 35 percent of the people questioned. Also, Jones said people are much more concerned with lack of supplies sup-plies in the schools than they are with teachers salaries. "That's something that's probably prob-ably never going to change," he said. Concerning some of the ideas being be-ing bantered about to reduce class size in the district, Jones said year-round year-round school is gaining acceptability accepta-bility with residents, but double sessions ses-sions remain taboo. "You people have amazed a lot of others," he told the board "I have calls all the time from other school boards asking how in the world Davis County managed to pass the bond election. The time has come to move forward and start saying what's right with education in the county and stop allowing the focus to be only on the negative." |
