DISTRICT MIGHT MOVE PORTABLES.Byline: Naush Boghossian Staff Writer CANYON COUNTRY - With a new school about to open, the Sulphur Springs School District The Sulphur Springs School District is a school district in the Santa Clarita Valley that serves portions of the Canyon Country and Newhall communities within the city of Santa Clarita, California. As of March 26, 2006, it has 8 elementary schools. is looking at the possibility of removing portable classrooms and freeing up space on on two campuses. The district will consider the economic feasibility of removing a number of portable classrooms that might sit empty after Fair Oaks Fair Oaks, town, United States Fair Oaks, uninc. residential town (1990 pop. 26,867), Sacramento co., N central Calif., on the American River, in a growing citrus fruit and farm area. Elementary opens in August and frees up room at Valley View and Sulphur Springs Sulphur Springs, city (1990 pop. 14,062), seat of Hopkins co., NE Tex., in a farm area; inc. 1859. Vegetables, wheat, rice, and corn are grown, and livestock and dairying are important. There is clay and timber in the area. elementary schools elementary school: see school. in Canyon Country. ``What we're looking at is the feasibility of removing the portables and then at some future date - depending on how growth goes - putting them back into place,'' said Kent Frison, assistant superintendent Assistant Superintendent, or Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), was a rank used by police forces in the British Empire. It was usually the lowest rank that could be held by a European officer, most of whom joined the police at this rank. of business. ``We could consider leaving them in place even though they might be vacant, when we consider the cost of moving them off and moving them back on again.'' Though the district owns some of the portable classrooms, it leases most for about $4,000 a year with money that comes out of development fees. But the cost to remove each portable is about $5,000, and the cost could increase depending on where they are moved. District officials will consider school enrollment projections, new developments planned for the area, the expense of continuing the leases and the cost of removal to determine whether they will keep the classrooms. The district shows a continued growth pattern, with enrollment expected to climb to about 6,800 students in the next seven years. Fair Oaks, which has the capacity for 750 students, will start off with about 450 - including about 300 from Valley View and 100 from Sulphur Springs - so currently, it seems that all three schools have a great deal of space to grow. If the district removes the portables that sit on asphalt asphalt (ăs`fôlt, –fălt), brownish-black substance used commonly in road making, roofing, and waterproofing. Chemically, it is a natural mixture of hydrocarbons. at both schools, it could open up space in the playgrounds. ``At Valley View it will open up a surface that could be used for playground Playground - A visual language for children, developed for Apple's Vivarium Project. OOPSLA 89 or 90? ,'' Frison explained. If the district decides to take out the portables, they will be removed in the summer. |
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