Show Uintah board votes to Consolidate 2 schools i At a meeting of the Board of Education of the Uintah School District Monday evening a decision was made to consolidate the Avalon School which is located near with the new Todd Elementary This decision waa made after many hours of careful consideration and A mass meeting was held with the Interested patrons of the Avalon School a few weeks where the great majority voted for A question recently arose concerning the anticipated activity connected with the Leota Bot- torn Bird Refuge in that ad- families may move into the area of the Avalon School and increase the present dimin school Haws contacted Harold S. director of the Fish and Game Department in Salt Lake City and found that they anticipated it would take two years to acquire the necessary land for the that the construction phase of the project would include only local people and that only three or four families would be permanently employed at the There were many reasons for consolidating these two west-side among them A rapidly demolishing school The enrollment is students and present census figures show that it will reduce to 65 by See back page Uintah Board from page Eighty percent of the present enrollment arc Indian students and it was felt that an improved educational program would result for both Indian and non-Indian students if more equal distribution were The social contacts of the Avalon students would be greatly increased by The financial savings to the school district of approximately per year would result from this Many more and modern facilities which would enrich the of the Avalon students would also result from The over-all transportation system now established would not need be affected too serious The consolidation of these two schools will necessitate two additional classrooms being added to the present Todd All interested contractors will be able to pick up the specifications for this construction at the Uintah School District Office during the week of April The opening and awarding of bids will be taken care of during the regular May 4 board Plans are to have the new classrooms ready for the consolidated school by the opening of school in Other business of the School Board Meeting was as A decision was made to increase the price of school lunch for the Junior high school students to 25 for next the same as th high school students are now A lunch card system was adopted for all secondary schools to begin next fall so that a greater accuracy would result in knowing in advance how many students planned to participate in the lunch program each The School Calendar was adopted which shows school starting next fall on September Christmas vacation from December 24 to Spring April 14 and 15 and school May Proposed school employees contracts were approved to mailing for the coming school Rhoda Robinson was as Adult Education Supervisor for the school Try the Standard first fo High Quality |