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He said that he had been told it would cost $ huh in to turn that area into a parking lot, but that was largely because a great deal of fill dirt was needed. I)r. Cancel had asked the highway department if they could lea\ e any till they didn’t need elsewhere on that site, and -e\ era! loads had been acquired that way. In addition, he told the board members,, many loads had been donated by the Faith Mountain Company from its construction of a new warehouse facility on U.S. 211.
“We’re close to grade,” he said. "Now we need funds to make it into a parking area.” He estimated t hat it could be leveled and gravel put down for $2,00»>.
“The county already pays for the bus system." he said. “With the $20 sticker the students would be generating their own parking lot.”
With the fees in place this year, enough money would be available to grade and gravel the new lot totnext year and replant the area in front of the school in grass. Dr. Gangel said.-He added that m future years, money from parking fees could be used to pave the new lot a section at a time.
“They’re the ones spinning their wheels and creating the holes,” said Wakefield District representative Paul Nichols. “Let’s do it.” His motion to approve the parking fee increase passed unanimously.
The School Board also received the report on the 1989 school census. Margarita S. Piper, the director of pupil personnel, who oversaw the census reported that 1,530 youngsters between the ages of one and 10 were counted in this census. This compares w ith 1,222 in 10,Mi and 1,398 in 1983.
The increase was particularly dramatic for preschoolers. In 1983 142 children were found between the ages of one and four; in 1986 that number w as 160, and this year it was 278. The increase may be due to an increase in the birth rate, but other factors appear to be at work.
In 1986 34 one-year-olds were identified, but this past summer 78 four-year-olds were found. It is, of course, possible that 44 families with children born in
See PARKING, p 13
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