Board Mtg/Garden Redistricting-Board Chambers-Open to Public

Attendance lines in the Venice area are the main business when the Sarasota County School Board takes up redistricting for Garden Elementary. The hurricane-damaged campus is being replaced by a two-story, 130,000-square-foot school designed for about 950 students, well beyond the 751 student stations of the old one, and the district must redraw boundaries to fill it. Taylor Ranch Elementary, Laurel Nokomis School and Venice Middle are the schools it has named as possibly affected, following advisory-committee and community meetings held at Garden in the spring. The session is open to the public in the board's chambers at the Landings, and agendas are posted online beforehand.