Parents of County elementary school students had two opportunities recently to share their concerns with school officials concerning the proposed boundary lines for the new Flat Rock Elementary School.

Among the concerns expressed last Thursday, during a public meeting at Powhatan Elementary School, was what will happen to children living in the Liberty Hill Subdivision in the central part of the County.

In one of the proposed boundary plans, Liberty Hill students would be divided between Powhatan Elementary and Flat Rock.

“We are looking closely at Liberty Hill,” said Joann Huebner, whose firm, Eperitus, has been handling the project.

Huebner made it clear that the company was handling only boundary issues for the new school, set to open in the fall, and has no say in what teachers would staff the facility or what the new bus routes would look like.

Their chief concern, said Huebner, was “how best to distribute the kids.”

Part of the goal, according was to allow for future growth at all three facilities and to try to eliminate the use of trailers at all three locations.

There was also concern that, in certain areas, two sets of busses may be sent to the same subdivision

Marcie Morgan’s two sons currently attend Powhatan Elementary School but will be going to Flat Rock. Morgan said she’s glad her children will no longer be faced with the hour-long bus rides they’ve dealt with in the past, but she does have concerns about what the boundary plans may mean for other families in the County.

She is worried that planners may not have taken into consideration how large some of the subdivisions in the County are, and what will happen to residents of streets that have been divided in half by one plan or the other.

Besides the firm hired by the county, a work group comprised of two representatives from each of the five planning districts has been working on the boundary issue since November. The group has had six sessions and will meet again to consider the input from the two public meetings.

The School Board is expected to take up the issue on April 2.