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Millcreek residents urge council to fund feasibility study on splitting Granite School District
Summary
At the April 14 Millcreek City Council meeting dozens of parents and residents urged local leaders to support a feasibility study and potential ballot measure to create a smaller, more locally governed school district. Speakers cited recent and possible school closures, equity concerns and a proposed GoFundMe to raise $50,000 for the study.
Dozens of Millcreek residents used the public-comment period at the Millcreek City Council’s April 14 meeting to press elected leaders to allow and, if necessary, fund a feasibility study into splitting Granite School District so Millcreek — potentially with neighboring cities — could elect its own school board.
The comments focused on recent and possible school closures that speakers said have harmed neighborhoods and on the lack of local representation on the existing district board. “It’s not about school closures, it’s about when the closures happen, we wanna be the ones making those choices,” said Taylor Davis, a Millcreek parent who told the council Millcreek currently has no member of the Granite School District board living inside Millcreek City boundaries.
Why this matters: A feasibility study and any later ballot measure would determine whether Millcreek could form a separate district, how property taxes and school funding would shift, and who…
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