District 93 narrows solutions down for growth issue

This comes after the $92 million bond that failed last spring.

Initially, there were 16 different options on how to solve the issue but after three meetings the committee narrowed it down to three feasible options.

Dr. Chuck Shackett says that more than half of the committee voted against the bond last March and that public opinion is going will be a big factor as to what the final solution is for the next bond.

The three solutions up for public survey:

1. Build a new high school

2. Expand Bonneville and Hillcrest high schools

3. Combine Hillcrest and Sandcreek to be one large high school and also build a 2,100 student middle school.

In the next week survey calls will be randomly made to about 500 people in the community.

Scott Woolstenhulme, director of improvement and technology believes the survey will be a better gauge of opinion than last year’s survey.

“I feel like this approach with doing the phone calls home and making this survey available on our website is going to give us some very comprehensive information, but also some very accurate information as well,” says Woolstenhulme.

The results from the phone survey will be presented to the school board and they will select what is put on the ballot for the bond.

“We do not have the time to have another bond fail, and so we need to have our community take this survey seriously and let us know what they will support the school district in doing solving this overcrowding problem because we have to have a solution,” says Shackett.

This year alone the district has seen an increase of 800 students.

Shackett also says that it will take three years to build a high school and two to build a middle school.