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Senate approves amendment raising city‑initiation threshold to 50,000 and clarifying school‑building ownership
Utah State Senate (special session) · August 22, 2007
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Summary
The Senate passed House Bill 1004, which sets a 50,000‑person city threshold for initiating a new school district and directs transition teams to allocate school buildings to the district that best serves the existing student population (Cottonwood High School cited).
Senator Wadhams explained House Bill 1004 makes two main changes: it lowers the city-population threshold to 50,000 (an amendment made in the House from 55) for a city to create a new school district, and it assigns school property at a split to the district that "best serves the…
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