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Show High school boundary approved By DON ETA GATHERUM Kaysville Editor LAYTON With some minor changes, the most notable being leaving the Mutton Hollow area within Davis High School boundaries, boun-daries, the Davis County Board of Education approved boundary changes as a first reading agenda item for Clearfield and Layton high schools that will give the new, as yet unnamed high school in north Layton a studentbody of 1,430 for the 1992-93 school year, the first year the school opens. The boundary change plan was moved to an action agenda item for fuialization at the June 18 board meeting. At the same board meeting, held June 4 in the Layton High School auditorium, the board named Dr. Ross P. Poore, Jr. as principal of the new high school. He will have a full year to organize a staff and make plans for the opening of the new high school in the fall of 1992. In January, the board of education edu-cation appointed a citizens committee com-mittee to study the boundary issue and make recommendations to the board. They also appointed a consultant, con-sultant, Dr. Darrell White, to facilitate the work of the committee. com-mittee. Public hearings were held at Clearfield and Layton high schools to give citizens the opportunity to hear the committee's recommendations recommenda-tions and to make suggestions. In most cases, the board listened to the comments made at the public hearings and made minor adjustments ad-justments to the committee's plan. The largest of these changes was keeping the Mutton Hollow neighborhood and West Phillips Streets in the Davis High School boundaries. The board also moved the boundaries boun-daries recommended in the Clinton area to the west so that all students attending Sunset Junior High School will attend the new high school. To offset this change, the students attending Antelope Elementary School will all go to Clearfield High School. In the Layton area, the board agreed to allow students in the Antelope DriveChurch StreetRolling Oaks area to attend the new high school. A maximum of nine students will be involved in this change. The only boundary issue left unresolved is in the Layton area. It concerns the Vae View subdivision, a housing area that will contribute from 226 to, 291 students per year to the high school population. These students attend North Layton Junior High, where the majority of students will feed into the new high school. The Vae View students would continue to attend Layton High School. Parents from Vae View pointed out that this subdivision is" nearly isolated from the rest of Layton. It is bordered on three sides by the industrial in-dustrial area of Layton and on the remaining side by the highway. The only housing area near Vae View is the Came lot area that is also isolated by Main Street and the freeway. Vae View patrons requested re-quested that the two areas be kept together and if possible, that these students either attend North Layton Junior and the new high school or Central Davis Junior and Layton High. Board president, Lynn Sum-merhays, Sum-merhays, said he understood the situation and assured the parents their recommendations would be carefully studied before the final decision is made in two weeks. |