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Show y CHS To Le Grassy Quad TOM BUSSELBERG FARMINGTON -No shor-PeM shor-PeM students are anticipated L rlearfield H'gh School, f the next few years. i'i!FCT' lne current enroll-S enroll-S f 1,624 is expected to mb w,th continued heavy m the county's north-j north-j si quadrant that feeds into. arJ" 0f that deling, the " of education last week fPrved preparation of o,,iectUral drawings that r a mean the end of the "yquad between building sections for construction of additional classrooms. The Ogden firm of Jones, Richard and Assoc. has been authorized to prepare drawings draw-ings for conversion of the media center into four c as-srooms as-srooms adjoining the English department and for an additional addi-tional 10 classrooms. THE MULTIMILLION dollar dol-lar project would add sufficient space to create a 2,100-2,200 student capacity, explains Dr. John S.White, assistant superintendent. super-intendent. In addition, students stu-dents won't have to brave the elements anymore, in going to some classes and lunch with covering of those open portions, por-tions, he added. The Little Theater will be placed next to the auditorium, making it far more convenient than the current setup with efforts made to tie departments depart-ments and classrooms together such as was done at LaytonHigh School in their recent re-cent addition. PLANS CALL for completion comple-tion of the building in time for the 1985-86 school year. Experience Ex-perience with the architectural firm has been "very good, very responsive" to district needs, Dr. White said, noting the group completed projects for the West Point Elementary School addition in 1981 and Kaysville's Burton the next year and is currently involved with South Weber Elemen-tary's Elemen-tary's expansion. In other board action, in a bond bid opening that Prudential Bache Securities Vice-Pres. Larry Denham demonstrated de-monstrated "excitement" and an "extremely comfortable" market feeling an interest of 8.998 percent was garnered for $7 million in tax-secured general gen-eral obligation bonds. THE LOW percentage rate reflects a "confidence" in wpw www wwwf mining I Davis School District's financial finan-cial position, he noted, indicating indicat-ing it was in a stronger position than the University of Nevada or a Phoenix, Ariz, sale of the same scale. The low bid of seven was submitted by Prudential-Bache Prudential-Bache and compared to the high bid, submitted by Northern North-ern Trust Co. of Chicago, will mean nearly a $300,000 savings sav-ings before its 1998 maturity. A DELEGATION representing represent-ing the school board and Davis County visited New York City last month and was "well received" re-ceived" by the various financial finan-cial rating services. |