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Show School Boards Will Submit Bill Calling for Boundary Change A special joint school board meeting between Park City and South Summit was held Wednesday Wednes-day of last week here where both boards voted unanimously to submit sub-mit a bill before the Utah Legislature, Legisla-ture, calling for a change in the school district boundary line. Board members also decided in a unanimous vote to officially sign "Articles of Agreement" which describes the condition of the boundary change, primarily financial fi-nancial requirements. All five South Summit school board members were present at the meeting as well as the district's dis-trict's Superintendent, Val Ed-rington. Ed-rington. Violet Terry was the only member of Park City's school board not present. Superintendent Superinten-dent Richard Goodworth was also in attendance, along with legal counsels from both school districts. dis-tricts. Dr. Goodworth said he expects Moroni Jensen, last year's president pre-sident of th Senate, to sponsor the boundary change bill. The legislature legis-lature convenes in January, and if the bill is given a vote of approval, appro-val, it could go into effect by July. Utah State Representative Glenn Brown also attended last week's joint school board meeting. meet-ing. Dr. Goodworth said the bill would first go before the joint education committee of the legislature legis-lature October 18th in order to gain a better understanding of how that body feels regarding the boundary line change. There will be school board elections elec-tions in both Park Chy and South Summit in the fall of 1980, should the bill pass in the legislature. At Marsac Elementary School, approximately 30 percent of the students live in the South Summit School District. Overall in the district, dis-trict, about 25 percent of the student stu-dent enrollment does not live in the Park City School District, but South Summit. Superintendent Goodworth said the action taken at last week's meeting amounted to "The biggest step we've taken so far." |