·        Tonight’s the night: The School Board is meeting for an important work-study session to look at elementary facility options at 6 p.m. at the Administration Building. While collecting enrollment and growth projection data for the upcoming boundary review process, administrators confirmed that Clark Elementary will operate significantly under capacity if we proceed with the current plans for school construction as approved by voters in the 2006 bond and levy measure. The Board tonight will hear data in the first step to determine whether it will be practical and fiscally responsible to run both Clark Elementary School and the planned 15^th elementary school on the Sammamish Plateau in the future. The public is invited as audience members as the Board begins the process to answer the question: What's best for students—operating both Clark and the new elementary or one or the other? Work-study sessions do not include time for public input, although many opportunities for community feedback will be available as the Board decides how to move forward. Materials from the meeting and a podcast of the discussion will be available online this week.

 

·        Did someone say boundary review process? Schools are looking for parent representatives for this District committee. Applications are now available at your school’s main office.

 

·        The Sammamish and Providence Point Kiwanis Clubs are inviting all children and their families to a holiday pancake breakfast—with music, crafts, Santa, and Doug the Talking Fir—with seatings at 9:30 and 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, at Sammamish Presbyterian Church, 22522 N.E. Inglewood Hills Road. Children are $5.50 and adults are $7.50. Send reservations, along with your name and e-mail address, to Breakfast with Santa, 21422 S.E. 37^th St., Sammamish, WA 98075. E-mail huckkathy@comcast.net for more information.