The hearing will immediately follow the board's regular monthly meeting (5:30 p.m.), which will be held on at the new Chestnut Mountain Elementary School on Union Church Road, and will target students who will be affected by the opening of a new school on Spout Springs Road in 2009.
That school - a middle school/high school complex - will be the largest in the Hall County system.
"It's designed to help alleviate overcrowding that we currently have at Flowery Branch High School and Davis Middle School," school system spokesman Gordon Higgins said.
At the public hearing, the board will present a plan designed to "maximize utilization of space to alleviate pressures" of growing student populations at C.W. Davis Middle School and Flowery Branch High School. The meeting will include a forum for community input.
"Hopefully we'll have good attendance and have the public have an opportunity to see the plans for this new facility," Higgins said.
Scheduled to be completed in August 2009, the new school also includes a joint venture with Hall County Parks and Leisure Service patterned after similar ventures at Sardis Park, Hog Mountain Park and East Hall Park. This partnership will provide lighted ball fields and tennis courts for dual use by the school and the community.
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