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?Tr 1,,Z)61y , ' N., t.),ci (f)6_.ss- < l 0-)--1 . rILL, Vo z i.-0 'ILL Cicr k 4:4..e.,- a i( 14,44e,- (+20-•8 :÷. fdi-A, ity-i Of (spEpoc..-44._, wi-it 0K cur eir , ..- ( 43 adfafift,4;) My n. e is Barbara Putney and I am the PTA President at Frank Porter Graham Elementary School this year. I want to urge you to approve funding for a new elementary school for Chapel Hill/Carrboro at the level requested by our school board. I think that I can speak for a majority of parents at our school by saying that we are extremely concerned about the increase in new house construction in our particular attendance zone_and the tesiVim, . increase in population that this brings." ..i,..-,4i,;,...--,%,- .. ,...1._ - - ..4......: ., -,t,„ ..,, ,;, - ;,----..- . ...-. i - le • 1 - a i - ; - 4 ii —'1' L7r —44 ir 4----, . :- L ' .4, 'To 5 — V - - ' Z 1:" want to si focus my remarks dn hov overcrowding has affected our school in particular The student enrollment at Frank Porter Graham has more than doubled in the last eight years, of from 325 students in 1986 to our c ent enrollment of 676. We have added almost 150 students in the last three years and we are now about 100 students over reco ended capacity. So many new students came in on the first day of school this year, that we had to set up two entirely new classrooms, hire two new teachers and teacher aides, and find rooms in which to place them, all done after school had started. .- -------,-;----+-_-:,-.-. . T ' - IV - I' .' ''''' —ra. - ; • '''' 0 TO — ''' '-e• ' ; '''4:••••;.• 5 Hi .. It has been extremely difficult to pl. . for this sort of explosive growth at the individual school level when the school is already too crowded. So far, we have installed two mobile classrooms, and we have lost our computer lab, our creative movement room, and the academically gifted classroom to regular classroom use. Two teacher workrooms have been lost to office space or to