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Board approves School LAND Trust amendments for Provo Peaks and Provo eSchool
Summary
The Provo City School Board unanimously approved two School LAND Trust amendments April 29: Provo eSchool will allocate $1,500 to an online reading resource (Epic), and Provo Peaks Elementary will reallocate previously planned funds to support multilingual learners and intervention work.
The Provo City School Board unanimously approved two School LAND Trust amendments on April 29 that reallocate or authorize spending of previously allocated trust-land funds.
Assistant Superintendent Jared Sites presented two separate amendments. Provo eSchool requested approval to use residual School LAND Trust funds to pay for access to Epic, an online book resource, to help meet reading-fluency goals; Sites described that request as “a $1,500 expense for additional resources that they had not anticipated in their previous plan.” Provo eSchool's school community council approved the amendment on March 18. Board member Lisa Boyce moved to approve the eSchool amendment; Board member Meg Van Wagonen seconded, and the motion passed unanimously.
Provo Peaks Elementary requested an amendment to reallocate funds after the school paid for a planned space-lab staffing and online tutorial programs from another funding source; the council voted to reallocate the School LAND Trust funds to pay for multilingual learners aid support and additional interventions. Provo Peaks' council approved the amendment on March 4. Board member Melanie Hall moved to approve the Provo Peaks amendment; Board member Emily Harrison seconded, and the motion passed unanimously.
Sites explained the School LAND Trust funds can carry forward and that fund balances expire on July 1 if not used; reallocations and journal entries can free up other school resources with fewer restrictions. Board members asked questions about enrollment and whether eSchool purchases would continue into the next year; Sites said the school had acquired the Epic access earlier in the year and planned to use School LAND Trust funds to pay for that subscription and that it may continue into the next year if carryover funds allow.
