HomeMy WebLinkAboutPreparing to Rezone-1994/1994 Seminole educators ready to rezone
By Mike Berry /AZ, 4.4, impression that the process is barreling
OF THE SENTINEL STAFF
without them.
The concern I've been hearing is that
the School Board is drawing up zones,
SANFORD — They're studying intricate and all of a sudden it's going to be hand-
maps.They're absorbing reams of data. ed down to everyone,"Kramer said.
committee of Seminole County edu- She said parents will have plenty of
.irs is setting up the groundwork for a chances to get involved. For now, school
massive rezoning plan that will accompa- officials are trying to outline how the new
ny the opening of Winter Springs High boundaries will be drawn,she said.
School in the next couple of years. For example, at one recent meeting,
But school district planner Dianne Kra- committee members agreed it is impera-
mer said some parents have the incorrect tive to avoid splitting up students in a
— parents can get involved
subdivision. But they also said it won't be more work sessions to look at what the
possible to contain larger communities committee has come up with.
within single school districts. • April: The committee will review
Here is a schedule related to rezoning: middle school zones.
• Nov. 29: The School Board will have • May: Public hearings will be held on
its first work session on the issue. Public the optional plans. There may be two or
comments are usually allowed at such three plans competing,Kramer said.
meetings but may be limited. • July 11:The School Board will adopt
• February: The rezoning committee a final plan after another public hearing.
will review several alternative high school The plan also must be reviewed by the
rezoning plans to present to the School U.S. Department of Justice because the
Board. school district is under a federal court de-
• March: The School Board will have segregation order.
•
WI R SPRINGS • EXTRA CREDIT?
IN A campaign advertisement
in the Tuacawilla Today newslet-
Winter Springs city commissioners are elected city- te', Winter Springs City Commis-
wide. The nonpartisan board members serve three-year sinner John Langellotti claims
terms and are paid$4,200 a year. that he has been a City Adminis-.
GROWTH: A new high school is being built, and the trator" and has served as a City
main artery through town is scheduled to be widened in Commissioner."
a few years. What would be your game plan for guiding But Langellotti is not talking
the development along State Road 434? about two jobs. Both lines refer to
CITY MANAGER: The city manager's two-year con- his work as city commissioner.
tract is scheduled to expire next'October. He has talked Winter Springs, however, has a
about retirement. How should the city fill its top atlmin- city manager -mini Gtor.Iak
istrative position? Should the city manager be encour- who is the top administrator.Len-
aged to stay on?
gellotr explains that by definition,
MALL: What role do you think the City Commission his current position makes him an
should play. if any, in the proposed development of a administrator. But actually
1.2 million-square-foot mall just south of Tuscawilla? , city charter states the sets policy.. It is the city tymmi
Would you oppose neighboring Oviedo annexing the Po manor
mall site, which is now in unincorporated Seminole
County? who runs the day-to-day opet
TOSCAWILLA: Tuscawilla is the city's largest and ations of the city.
perhaps most powerful residential community. Should
the city set up a taxing district to provide landscaping
services for this community?
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Plans differ in views 7: WINTER SPRINGS
REZONING from K-1 Thefts/break-Ins
• Forest Circle, 1000 block,between
That money often exceeds what it costs a school to 11:45 p.m.April 27 and 4 am.April 28.
run the AP program, although committee member Someone stole a purse containing $70
Dick Harris argued that it's a bad idea to isolate one from a house.
source of school funding. Seminole High received • Panama Road,300 block,between
more textbook money this year than any other 3:30 and 4:30 p.m. April 30. Someone
school. stole jewelry valued at$200 and$50 in
One rezoning plan, called Plan F, stays truest to coins from a house.
existing boundaries and the desire for community Auto thefts/burglarles
schools,though it does move more black students in
• Belle Avenue, 1200 block,between
the Goldsboro area from Seminole High to Lake
Mary High. 0 p.m. April 29 and 9 a.m. Anal. 30.
The second plan, called Plan G, brings each high Someone broke into a motor omd
school closer to the countywide ethnic took to a public storage business 8and end at
profile,chiefly ttek a valued at valued at $580 end a
by moving students in a large area east of Sanford— stereo valued et$340.
including Midway — from Seminole High to Winter • Casa Park. 1400 block, between
Springs High. 10 a.m. April 23 and 4 p.m. May 3.
At the April 27 meeting,committee member Velma Someone stole a cellular phone valued
Williams questioned the premise of trying to even at$500 from•ran pod a a house.
out the demographics.
"The bottom line is,you think there are too many --
blacks at Seminole High," said Williams, a longtime • &eOM SorU+ab,go tdock, be-
tween resident active in schools and community to p.m. n s ble$e e asp cam.
April 29.Someoe stele w/Galnt plate
from a car parked at an apartment com-
"That is very painful,"she said. plea.
Both plans keep the relatively affluent Lake Brant-
ley school zone virtually intact, addressing the Cron- Forgery
cents of parents there. In view of that, some.asked, • State Road 434,4:38 p.m.April 21.
would it be fair to uproot students in,say,Midway? A woman reported that a man stole and
Large-scale reproductions of the two plans are be- forged a personal check belonging to
ing distributed to all elementary, middle and high her to buy'$140 worth of Items at a
schools. - store.
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