After the Foothills School Division announced the plans of building two different high schools, one to be placed in Aldersyde and the other on the new land purchased by the Town of Okotoks on the North side. One Councillor is speaking out against the division.

Tanya Thorn isn't impressed with the decision to build two schools splitting students of Okotoks away from town with the Aldersyde site.

She says the location of 1st stage school shouldn't be there in Aldersyde but rather where students are in living which is in the town itself.

"To me schools belong in communities, they do not belong outside of communities the whole point of it is to build a community around a school and I believe our community should be consulted on this decision, it's a major decision and the fact that they're not talking to the citizens of our community is disappointing."

The plan for the two high schools is to have the Aldersyde High School be the first school built followed by the school that would be on the land bought by the town.

Thorn says the plan to have two schools holding 900 students each doesn't make sense with the need for a K-9 school as well.

"I don't see where this proposal that they've put forward, I didn't see it with the last proposal I definitively I don't see it with this one where we're going to solve a K-9 solution," she says. "They've (Foothills school Division) asked us to purchase land, we've purchased land they're not going to use it in the near future."

She says the Town isn't fan of waiting for a school that's not even a close priority for the division.

"We've gone out and purchased lands, and so their new proposal is to put a phase II high school on it," Thorn says. "That high school hasn't got any funding allocated to it yet, it's not even on the government's books at the moment so they're asking us to hold land that we purchased with tax-payer dollars for an indefinite period, I struggle with that."

Thorn hopes there will be more discussions between the town and the division before going ahead with the two high school plan.