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Show A REVERSAL of a decision by the State Superintendent of Education has put a question mark on land to be purchased for use as a future Elementary and Park City High School site. According to Superintendent Nelson, Superintendent Talbot ed for and that as soon as additional ad-ditional funds were available the programs in question could be given greater expansion. Board members discussed safety fetures that had been seen on school busses exhibited at the State School Board Convention. Following the discussion the board moved to accept the bid of Mawhinney Motor on a 66-passenger 66-passenger school bus and the Superintendent was directed to check reqmred safety features for the bus. BACCALAUREATE services, will be held in the high school auditorium at 8 p.m. May 20 The Rev. John Hart, former Pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Park City, will give the address. Commencement exercises will be held on Thursday, May 24 at 8 p.m. at the auditorium. Looking to the future it was the decision of the board that school start in August of 1973 and end before Memorial Day in 1974. The Staffing Plan for Upgrading Upgrad-ing Rural Schools (SPURS) program pro-gram was discussed and will be evaluated when testing is completed. completely reversed his former decision that land annexed by Park City Municipal Corporation Corpora-tion automatically become part of the Park City School District. Dis-trict. Hence the proposed school site located along Highway 284, across from the Sand Dunes area and west of Osguthorpe Meadow is not in the Park City School District. MR. NELSON REPORTED the above facts to members of the Park City Board of Education at the group's regular session last week. Negotiations with Greater Park City Company were near-ing near-ing the completed stage and it looked like the long search for a new school site to meet future expansion might be ended. Superintendent Nelson is to set up a meeting with Summit County Commission Chairman Mel Flinders to discuss the situation and possibly solutions. BERT MURNIN, Park High Student Body President and James Santy Jr., Senior Class President at Park High met with the board and presented a proposal pro-posal for a three-day outing to Lake Powell for the Senior Sluff Day. Superintendent Nelsonrec-ommended Nelsonrec-ommended to the board the student stu-dent proposal not be accepted because of the many safety hazards haz-ards they would encounter. It was the decision of the board to ask that the Sluff Day be made a one-day affair. MRS. DAVIDFERRE, ofSum-mit ofSum-mit Park, met with the board as a representative of a group of parents who were interested in improvement of the Humanities Human-ities curriculum in the Elementary Elem-entary School and would especially es-pecially like to encourage the development of the art program. pro-gram. Mrs. Ferre received the complete assurances of the board that constant improvement improve-ment is continually beingwork- |
