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Show School Officials Will Ask State Intervention in Boundary Issue The state school board representative repres-entative is expected to take a month to write up a financial policy and another joint school board meeting between Park City and South Summit is scheduled to take place June 21. revenue should the line change which would enable the most lucrative area in South Summit to become incorporated into the Park City School District. A survey taken not long ago showed well over a majority of those -families living in the affected areas wanted to change the line and become part of the local school district. Approximately 25 percent of Park City's school children live in South Summit School District. A joint school board meeting was scheduled to take place in Park City shortly before press time to discuss the changing of the district boundary line between bet-ween Park City school district and South Summit School District. School board members from both districts were planning to meet this week at the Learning and Cultural Center. South Summit Superintendent Val Edrington told the Record late Tuesday he planned to tell local board members that a third party, a representative from the State Board of Education, should inter the boundary line issue and try to arrive at a satisfactory agreement. agree-ment. South Summit School Board voted 4 to 1 at their last meeting to request aid from the state board in trying to resolve the situation. Superintendents Edrington and Richard Goodworth have met with state legislators to discuss the possibility of changing the district school boundary line and both said the legislators did not think consolidation or reorganization would be recommended by the state legislature. Changing a boundary line between school districts requires legislative action. Superintendent Edrington told the Record he had also met with Gov. Scott M. Matheson. Those state legislators with whom Goodworth and Edrington met with included local representative represen-tative Eddison Stevens, Speaker of the House Glade Sowards, and President of the Senate Moroni Jensen. Superintendent Edrington said the South Summit School Board had not yet agreed to change the line, but rather to further investigate it, primarily through the representative from the state board of education. Besides consolidation. South Summit is concerned over the loss of tax |