AMERICAN FORK -- A final recommendation will be made tonight to the Alpine Board of Education to realign boundaries of at least six Orem elementary schools.
Board members will discuss the proposal at a 6 p.m. meeting at Legacy Elementary School, 28 E. 1340 North. A 30-member committee worked for about a month on the plan and banned the public from its final meeting Friday.School officials moved the meeting from the board's headquarters to the larger American Fork elementary school to accommodate the number of parents who wanted to attend.
Students at Orchard, Northridge, Windsor, Cascade, Sharon and Rocky Mountain elementary schools may experience shake-ups as a result of the deliberation. Officials are trying the balance the number of students in preparation of a new $6.5 million school.
To make room for a 7,000-student projected enrollment surge by 2002, four elementary schools will be built in the next several years.
Voters in June approved a $60-million general obligation bond and $6.9 million leeway to fund the new schools. The public-revenue package kicks up property taxes on $100,000 property $63.50 over three years.