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Show i p Jlrln CHUiT! r---ifIH.ii.i.irtlSJS iiiinfC- ' - -? - - OP I 'ATTFi DAY SAlM i.S ? :J 5 I EARN CERTIFICATES. Consecutive Club I 5 members who earned certificates for reading j j program include, back row, left to right: Alan 1 Moss, Kris Cooley, Elaine Matheson, Julie Reeves, Marsha Leigh and Laird Campbell. Front row includes, 1 to r: Corrine Reeves, Bonnie Buhanan, Cinday Webster, Jeanette Alger and Pam Wilson. It School site selection detailed ' t I I By Dr. J. Clair Morris I j Iron School Dist. Superintendent I t Upon the recommendation of a I I 31 member citizen advisory I i committee, the Enoch Bench J I area, owned by the Bulloch ' Brothers, was selected by the , Iron School Board as the location s for a new elementary school. I I In December of 1976, the Iron , School Board appointed a site ( ! selection advisory committee j comprised of the following 31 I I members: Superintendent J. , Clair Morris, Wayne Mifflin, Clemont Adams, James Clark, I 5 Phyllis Embley, Steve Rollo, I !, Clayton Frehner, Haken An-J An-J i derson, Durrell Cox, Tom ' ; Goodman, Brent Jones, Bob j 1 Blattner, Paul Nelson, Clark j , Maxwell, Mildred Bisetti, John ; Pace, Elwood Rindlisbach, Brent I i Hunter, Jan Parke, Hilda Grimshaw, Rae Overson, Gayna ' Hillyard, JoAnne Mills, Bud Garfield, Ron Smith, Dr. Jim 1 Miller, Lou Szepi, Winona l Cowan, Bob Holt, Kent Stapley, and Oscar Hulet. The group held a meeting on January 5, 1977. Prior to the meeting, committee members were provided with an in-ij, in-ij, formtion packet to be studied prior to the meeting. This packet included criteria to be considered con-sidered in selecting a site, school enrollments data, and told of various prospective locations. The locations included Fiddler's Canyon, Enoch Bench, Cottonwood Cot-tonwood Valley, Spanish Trails Estates, Garden Park, 1 Crossroads, and Crosshollow. After discussing the various sites the committee used a process of elimination. The first sites to be eliminated were Fiddler's Canyon and Crosshollow. It was apparent that committee members felt the school should be located in Cedar Valley rather than within the Cedar City limits. After the committee determined deter-mined that the school should be located in the valley, where the children reside who will attend it, other very important considerations con-siderations were water, flood zones, and sewage drainage fields. After these factors were discussed a vote was taken and Enoch Bench won out on a vote of 19 to 2. The superintendent and two board members present did not vote. The Enoch area was most popular because of an available supply of high quality water, which will be stored in a water tank on a high point above the Enoch Bench area. This provides gravity flow pressured water as contrasted to pressure provided by a water pump. Gravity pressured water is not in-terrrupted in-terrrupted by power failures and the tank provides for some water in reserve. The Enoch Bench land has been annexed into the City of Enoch and the water involved is part of the Enoch Municipal Water System. The Iron District would, therefore, be working with a municipality rather than a private owner as would be the case in other parts of Cedar Valley. A second major factor in locating the site on Enoch Bench is that it is out of all flood areas and does not take available farm land. The new school will need a large sewage drainage field. Members on the site selection advisory committee felt that the school should not be located in lower parts of the Valley because, if so, it would eventually even-tually be flooded and damage could occur to the building and definitely, to the sewage drainage field. The Enoch Bench area is on high ground and in no danger of flooding. The building can be constructed on the high part of the land and sewage drainage fields can be located on the lower part of the land. Another factor in the committee's com-mittee's selection of the Enoch Bench is the fact that the owners of the land were willing to donate 11.1 acres of land to the district, subject to the District con structing roads on three sides of the donated property and installing in-stalling a water line two blocks to the District property. Feeling in the Valley runs very strong regarding locating the school in the Valley rather than in Cedar City. The student population in the Valley will be large enough by the time the school is built to fill a school which has two teachers per grade level or 13 classrooms. Building the school in the Valley will reduce busing. While secondary students will still come to town, only half as many buses will be needed to transport them. The buses picking up the elementary students in the Valley will make shorter runs to the Valley school and elementary students will be on the buses only half as long or half an hour as contrasted to about an hour. Most Valley buses will be elementary buses or secondary buses rather than carrying both elementary and secondary students. Not having to "fight" traffic in Cedar City and not having to stop at five different schools in Cedar City accounts for most of the savings in town. Also, most of the Valley elementary students live within a short distance to the Enoch Bench. Residents of the Valley feel that if a school is located in the Valley, it will be a "neighborhood" "neigh-borhood" school and that it will be "their" school and as such they will be more involved in school activities, PTA, community com-munity school activities, etc. It will also make it so their children will all be attending the same school rather than all three schools, as is now the case. Because of the rationale provided by the committee and because of the unanimity of the vote, the Iron School Board selected the Enoch Bench site. Of the people who attended the citizen advisory committee meeting, only three of those who voted were from the Enoch-Enoch Enoch-Enoch Bench area. |