In less than a month, Fayette County parents will get their first glimpse at the new attendance lines for all the county’s high schools and middle schools.

Assistant Superintendent of Operations Sam Sweat told school board members Monday night the system has already received more than 100 e-mails about the new attendance lines. The new boundaries will be in place next August, when Bennett’s Mill Middle School on Lester Road in the center of the county opens as the county’s sixth middle school.

Sweat said several factors, including the capacity of each school, will be taken into consideration when the lines are drawn. Another major factor will be the efficient use of transportation, as fuel costs continue to add to the school system’s budget.

“We won’t be able to have a true feeder plan, since we’ll have six middle schools and five high schools,” he added.

Sweat said the school system will take public comment until Oct. 10, and then unveil the maps at the Oct. 16 board meeting. After the maps are released, more public input will be sought and the board could vote on the boundaries at its Nov. 21 meeting.

But school board member Janet Smola wondered if it wouldn’t be better to vote in December.

“I think a dialogue with the public is important,” she said.

Board chairman Terri Smith added the board had to reject all the elementary maps earlier this year because the board didn’t have time to redo them after the public comment.

But member Greg Powers said a December deadline could “be shooting us in the foot.”

“If they’re ready by November, we should go ahead and vote,” he said.

Smith also encouraged residents to try and keep emotion out of the debate and stick to facts.

Powers also asked Sweat to try and avoiding splitting enrollment at elementary schools and sending the students to two different middle schools.

Sweat said he would also make sure that each school had a copy of the maps, along with placing them on the school system’s Web site.