By the middle of November, Fayette County’s parents should be able to see what elementary schools their children will be attending next year.

In a marathon meeting that lasted more than 3 1/2 hours Monday night, the redistricting committee started looking at final maps and fine-tuning the boundary lines before the Fayette County Board of Education gets its first glimpse of the proposal in November.

Assistant Superintendent of Operations Sam Sweat told the committee that it should have at least two options to present to the board. At this point in the nearly three-month-long process, it appears the two options will be shifting the students to 19 schools, including the new schools in Inman and on Tillman Road, or shifting to 18 schools and closing East Fayette Elementary School.

“We want to make sure these changes last at least five years,” Sweat said.

It appears the first parents who are upset over the proposed changes are residents of the Whitewater Creek subdivision. Sweat told the committee that he had received more than 200 signatures of residents who did not want to see their students shifted from attending Peeples Elementary to Minter.

Consultant Kelley Carey told the board that the redistricting process was about the “sharing of burdens and needs, and not about trade-offs between schools.”

Monday’s meeting saw more residents present, and after a break in the session, Sweat asked them to respect the process.

“I’ve had complaints from about five or six committee members about conversations going on. We can’t function like this, and if you can’t be quiet, you’ll have to leave,” he said.

Carey told the committee that he had worked on making some changes to the committee’s map to ensure the plan would work. With the changes, five schools — Braelinn, Burch, Kedron, Peachtree City Elementary and Inman — would be overcrowded in five years.

Carey told the committee a Special Purpose Local Option Sales tax would be needed to fund additions for the school system, because there was not any available construction money for new classrooms.

But one committee member said she had calculated the total capacity of the schools at 10,763 in five years, while the actual number of students attending would be 10,063. She didn’t understand why any of the schools should be overcrowded.

The committee meets tomorrow night at 6 p.m. for another night of fine-tuning the boundaries.