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Public input has Provo rethinking its school plans

Published: Monday, Dec. 12, 2005 10:48 p.m. MST
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PROVO — After sifting through comments from people who live and have children attending city schools, Provo school chiefs are rethinking some plans to accommodate enrollment shifts in the urban Utah County district.

The comments, solicited during open houses during which a major plan to build schools, change boundaries and alter the uses of existing district buildings was presented to the public, have prompted officials to consider rebuilding Timpanogos Elementary on its current site and building a new school in a northwest Provo neighborhood known as Lakeview.

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However, many of the 387 respondents to computer surveys, which are on the district's Web site, www.provo.edu, did not want the district to rebuild Dixon Middle School on one of the district's properties in west Provo, which is one of the proposals on the table in front of Provo's Board of Education.

While the district's student population remains about 13,000, thousands of new homes have been built west of I-15, causing a population shift in Provo. West-side students are bused to schools in other areas of the city, which was chief among reasons the board started talking about major school-boundary changes.

An overwhelming majority of survey respondents — 93 percent — accept the $25.8 million price tag that accompanies the changes that they favor. District officials estimate it will cost $7.5 million to rebuild Timpanogos, $8 million to build a Lakeview school and $10.3 million for improvements such as new roofs and energy-efficient windows at other schools.

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