Below is the live blog of today’s Park City School District Master Planning Committee meeting. Please forgive the typos, as these meetings usually move fast. Click More for the play by play

I was having dinner with a friend last night, when the subject of the cost of rebuilding Treasure Mountain Junior High (TMJH) came up. She said, “What’s the estimated cost to rebuild Treasure Mountain?” I said, “$26 million.” She said… “$26 million? For 2 grades? TWO GRADES?!?!” I hadn’t thought of it that way. This …

Money. It’s a funny thing. It’s easy to spend it when it’s someone else’s … but a little bit harder when it’s your own. That’s what I started thinking when I began to read meeting minutes from the Park City School District Master Planning Committee. As many of us know, this committee has been meeting …

It looks like Park City School District will be undergoing some pretty serious changes in the near future. Park City has grown over the years, and the larger class sizes, along with various other problems in the district, are prompting a grade realignment and construction. All-day kindergarten will be added to the elementary schools in …

Last week I tried to attend the Park City School Board’s Master Planning Committee meeting. This committee is addressing the issue of moving the 5th/6th grade school to Ecker Hill and redesigning the Kearns Campus. Much to my surprise I was told “there is no meeting.” The receptionist then called someone who asked “who wanted …

I’ll be live blogging Wednesday’s Master Planning Committee meeting, starting at 4PM (unless they decide to “close” the meeting like last week). This is an important meeting because this is the first chance to see if the committee has decided to alter course on building plans on the Kearns campus, due to neighborhood pushback. If you …

I was listening to KPCW this morning and a Park City Municipal representative was talking about a group they are putting together to provide feedback on how to best use public property near Lower Park Avenue. KPCW’s Leslie Thatcher asked about how much participants are being paid. The answer, for 3 days work, was $1500. That would be …

My personal opinion is that the Park City School District should go into damage control mode, per recent meetings on their Kearns Campus Rebuild, the likely decision to move Treasure Mountain to Ecker Hill, and realigning grades. Their current proposals seem rushed, not thought out, have conflicts of interest, and are opposed by citizens at every meeting. Yet, as …

The salt Lake Tribune is reporting on a study done by the Utah Foundation showing that Colorado’s adoption of public pre-school and full day kindergarten has made positive strides in reducing the achievement gap. The study highlights that Utah used to be ranked higher on national tests than Colorado but that’s not the case any …

There is a term in business called FUD. FUD stands for Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt. It is often used in marketing, to attack a competing idea by eliciting fear about what could happen if a competing idea happens. In hyper local terms you could describe City Council person Andy Beerman’s appearance on KPCW this morning as FUD when he said …