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Show Thursday, April 25, 1996 The Park Record PCHS fall schedule does not violate state rules by Cornelia deBruln OF THE RECORD STAFF In the face of concerns recently voiced about its fall schedule, Park City High School's administration says that everything is copacetic. PCHS Principal Mike Andrews has been working up a new schedule for the 1996-97 school year, which for the first time will offer students two , alternating four-period days. The Utah legal system mandates that each student be offered 990 hours of education during the 180-day school year. Schools throughout Utah are reimbursed for the expenses they incur in teaching. The reimbursement is calculated by using a complicated com-plicated system called the weighted-pupil unit. At a recent school board meeting, former board president Val Chin told those assembled assem-bled that she had been given information indicating that Park City High School was not in compliance with the state's WPU requirement of 990 hours. "How can we achieve 'world-class' school status if we don't meet minimum state requirements," Chin said. Her use of the phrase 'world-class schools' was in reference to a letter from Park City School District Superintendent Don Fielder which was published earlier this year by The Park Record. Chin said she had learned of the new schedule by reading an article in The Prospector News, the PCHS student newspaper, newspa-per, which was critical of the change. The article quoted Ashley Jones, PCHS student representative on t le district board, as saying, say-ing, "Basically, they PCHS students have an hour and a half to roam the streets." Jones was referring to a mandatory study hall that had been scheduled. Andrews says he has been reviewing the board's concerns. He said he has also been in touch with the State Board of Education regarding the concerns. "I believed from the start that we had the sanction of the state board." Andrews recently was informed that his optimism was rewarded. "We are now considering an eighth-period class," he said. Andrews presented the board with three proposed schedules for the 1996-97 academic year. All three offer students a 990-hour school year, and give them an opportunity to an extra period called "zero hour" as an additional class. The proposed school schedule would lengthen the school day by nine minutes, contain four 90-minute block class periods, give students five minutes to change classes, provide a 40-minute lunch and allow the zero hour to start at "a reasonable" time. The schedule would also not impact the existing bus transportation schedule. The school day would begin at 7:30 a.m., unless a student had a zero-hour class, which would run from 6:40 a.m. to 7:25 a.m. School would end at 2:25 p.m. Slight changes of a few minutes are contained in the option plans. One of the other criticisms of Andrews' proposed schedule was that the school's guidance guid-ance counselors were discouraging their students stu-dents from taking "a lot" of classes. "I have checked on that, and Mr. Jerry Fiat assures me that is not the case," he said. Andrews explained that if a student takes seven of the eight classes offered, "He or she will fit the bill of state-required classes." Even in cases where students take less than the state-required hours, Andrews said the school will be paid the WPU funds for which it qualifies. "Our overall course offering must be within the guidelines," he said. District holding steady on new middle school costs PC District Board gets work-session briefing FIRST WESTERN MORTGAGE (801) 649-9556 Invest In Park City Trust Deeds 12 Return 1 by Cornelia deBruin OF THE RECORD STAFF Park City School District board members are down to the wire for deciding which of the alternate alter-nate design choices they will implement for the new middle school planned for their students. Gary Acord of Design West, the architect working with board members, told them during a Tuesday night work session that "it is time to decide which of the alternatives you want." Acord also briefed board members on how the project is doing financially. Costs for the middle school were budgeted at $13,548,769. As of April 23, Acord said the project is $69,766 over budget. Board members now must decide whether they want to go with the basic swimming swim-ming pool plans proposed for the school or spend $831,106 for an "enhanced" pool - a decision proponents propo-nents of additional recreation facilities for the Snyderville Basin are hoping board members will make. Plans for the addition to the Park City High School were bid at $16,578,273. Acord told board members that project is now $67,687 under bid. Much of the extra costs are related to improvements in plans for the school's playing fields. Costs for renovating the Treasure Mountain Middle School were bid at $920,057. Project costs are now $235,000 over bid, according to Acord. When a cost estimate summary for school district construction projects was released in late 1994, the total figure was $31,547,099. Acord's report shows that overall, the projects are costing $29,984,000. However, district accountant Burke Jolley cautions that of a $3 million budget for land acquisition, the district has already spent $2.1 million. mil-lion. School board members are hoping to make their final decisions soon. a-. USST marketing chief named; Leiweke leaving Continued from A-1 Burnette's experience at AT&T included working with the National Basketball Association, America's Cup, the Dream Team, U.S. Figure Skating and other major sports. He was in charge of both evaluationevalu- tation of partnerships and strate gic development. develop-ment. "I know from my experience as a corporate sponsor that companies are . very attracted to the demograph-ics demograph-ics of skiing." said Burnette. "It's one of the biggest of Olympic sports and shouldshuld be an important component of any company's Olympic marketing strategy." "This has been a very exciting and productive seven months," said Leiweke. "We've make some progress in assembling a strong staff and strong corporate partners. Todd (Burnette) brings an excellent background to the company to grow our sponsor base. We are nearly completed with a television package which-wheih which-wheih will be a dramatic improvement over where we've been, which will provide some outstanding media value for our sponsors. "This is a significant opportunity opportu-nity for me with the Kings," said Leiweke, "but I've become very close to skiing and have a great desire to continue my involvement involve-ment through the U.S. Ski Team This is a significant opportunity opportu-nity for me with the Kings, but I have become very close with skiing." Tim Leiweke Foundation's Marketing Committee. I expect to remain-reamin remain-reamin very close to the program and to assist Todd, where necessary, neces-sary, inclosing any deals." Burnette will supervise a staff of two account executives, Susan Gaylord and Susan Buckley. 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