Show School Board Decides Decides De De- cider to Cut Tax Levy Two Mills RIGID ECONOMIES DES NECESSARY IN ORDER TO OPERATE ON DECREASED SCHOOL FUNDS A cut of two mills In the tax levy for the South Sanpete school district from to mills was decided on by the school board in the after after- afternoon noon noon session of an day all-day meeting held I I lat at Manti Mantl March This will mean meana Ja a cut in the taxes of the district sf f 1 I between twelve and thirteen thousand s dollars doUan with the present valuation of pf property The county commissioners also plan to reduce the assessed valuation oC ot livestock seven per cent and this will mean menn a reduction of between seven and eight thousand dollars in the taxes taxes taxes tax tax- es to be collected in the county which will mean a further decrease In the money for operating the schools of the district Both reductions will bring decided de de- tided relief to taxpayers In Ia order for the schools of the district die dis to operate under the decreased budget the strictest economies will twill be necessary and these are being effected in several se ways Teachers are being eliminated cuts cats are being made In salaries salof salaries sal sal- aries of all employees of the district consolidations are being effected ant and other parings are being made Taxpayers and teachers were both represented at the board bard meeting ut Mantl and the forenoon session was largely taken up by these visitors discussing discussing dis die cussing pro and con the matt matter r of of sal salary sal Ml- ary reductions D. D N N. Beal James Frost D. D W W. Thompson Chris Larsen r and Andrew Hansen were present from Ephraim as was also Principal A. A L Tippetts of the high school Most of r the farmers pre present ent favored a deepcut deep deepcut deepcut cut of salaries and this was naturally naturally ally opposed by the teachers The agriculturists stated that farms generally are not paying propositions In Sanpete and D D. W. W Thompson gave 1 accounts of a acre 40 farr farm z valued at which showed a net loss of ot a j 1250 last year rear not counting Mr lIr Thompson s own labor The argument of the farmers was that decreased prices on commodities are in effect the same as a raise in the teachers teachers' salaries so that a reduction Is only Just The teachers' teachers committee held a session session session ses ses- sion before the board meeting and agreed to offer to teach two weeks without pay but did not favor a salary salary salary sal sal- ary cut They pointed out that when prices were unusually high no committee committee com com- of farmers met with the school board to urge a raise In teachers' teachers pay par They also showed that many articles are as expensive now as they were three or four years ago which allows no reduction in living costs Meeting at Gunnison son Monday Monday- Another meeting of the school board was held at Gunnison Monday the place of meeting being changed because Mr r. r Fjeldsted was not able to travel R Ron on account of illness lUness Th The Th-e discussion of teachers' teachers contracts was the chief purpose of the meeting While a number number num num- ber of changes in the teaching personnel personnel personnel person person- nel can be expected no Information as to Just what changes will be made has yet ret been made public The tentative budget was gone over with the view of ascertaining Just what cuts in fa ex expenses will be ne necessary sary It was was definitely decided to eliminate ono one teacher at Fayette by transporting the eighth grade pupils to Gunnison along with the high school students A teacher teach teach- er will a also so be eliminated at Mayfield y by consolidating the work of other tea teachers ch ers By transporting the Clarion and Stir grades grad to Gunnison a tea teacher her may also be eliminated No action was taken on the situation at Axtell where citizens are strongly opposed opposed opposed op op- posed to transporting the and grade pupils to Gunnison Superintendent ent Reid Iteld reported that in a conference with teachers at the tho f Ephraim High school he be found the opinion to be that by consolidation of y work one teacher could be eliminated without decreasing the efficiency of the T school but no action was taken on this matter While the teachers through their committee had offered to teach two we weeks s gratis the board decided to toak ak ask them to give gl three and the pay for these three weeks will be deducted from the pay ch checks ks of the first three months month This would mean that a n teacher teach teach- teacher er receiving 1000 a year salary would r have 30 30 a month taken from his or her check for the first three months of school Other salaries would be decreased decreased de de- de- de creased accordingly The purpose of this it is explained is that every ery year the district loses one or more teachers teach through resigns Continued on lat last pose pen |