DATE: Sunday, November 16, 1997             TAG: 9711140255

SECTION: CHESAPEAKE CLIPPER      PAGE: 15   EDITION: FINAL 

SOURCE: Nancy Young 

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SCHOOL BULLETIN BOARD - CHESAPEAKE

A look at what happened at Monday's School Board meeting: Pazour presentation delayed

If there's a record book on meeting brevity, Monday's meeting, which took just less than an hour, would have been up there. The main event of the evening - City Manager John O. Pazour's presentation on the city's finances and how schools fit into the big picture - was postponed because Pazour was battling the flu. He will be scheduled for another meeting. Attendance zoning

The board did hold its final public hearing on future attendance zones for Deep Creek Central Elementary and the replacement school for Deep Creek Intermediate. Both schools will become K-5 beginning in Sept. 1999 and the attendance-zone option by the administration will preserve each school's currentracial diversity.

The low turn-out at the board's two public hearings was not the result of apathy, said Laurie McElveen, president of Deep Creek Central Elementary's PTA and the only person to speak at either public hearing.

``We're just resigned to the knowledge that a new school is needed,'' said McElveen, adding that she supported the administration's recommended attendance zones.

McElveen said she and other parents did have some concerns about what would happen to the building Deep Creek Intermediate is now in and which she said has historical value to the city. She said she was concerned the building would be demolished instead of being put to good use. Superintendent W. Randolph Nichols said a decision on what to do with the building could be a long way off while the administration deals with other more pressing issues.

``The rumors are running rampant in Deep Creek about what will be done,'' said McElveen.

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