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Show iiSEiTECBMESTO IJHCIiLS Bill Is Passed Which Will Help Salt Lake City and Ogden. H'Vil ;is paid in the senate yoster-,i,iv yoster-,i,iv tu vSalt Lake City's pica for more i:'in.v to UuiM new sehool buiMincs ?sA 'to Oden 's plea for more funds .i h v hii -li to pay general school ex-P-iiM. 1'v the passage of Craig's sen-;,:, sen-;,:, bill No. 20, increasing the maximum i( houl tax in cities of the first and iecond clfifses. J, T. Hammond, representing the palt Lake board of education, ami John M. Mills, superintendent of schools in Odon, appeared before the senate to urge passage of the measure. There was mucn debate before passage, Senator Sena-tor L. B. Wight leading the "light on the bill. It passed by a good majority, however. Mr. Hammond told the senate that under present laws providing only U i mills for the erection of new school Imilding?, only one scnool could be built a year in Salt Lake City, whereas where-as the growth of the city demands that two be built every year. The Craig bill increases the portion of the school tar for building purposes to 2 mills annually. Mr. Hammond pictured the crowded and inadecpiato conditions in many of the Salt Lake schools, demanding de-manding more and larger 'buildings. The speaker said that the one mill additional tax asked would add $75,000 annually to the building fund, which, with the approximate $100,000 raised bv the lo mill tax, would permit two buildings a year. Mr. Mills pictured Ogden s plight. Only the effecting of an overdraft for 30000 is keeping Ogden schools open, he said. The trouble in Ogden was that the county commission did not provide sufficient school revenue from taxes. The Craig bill would make more funds available. Another bill in -which the 'board of education is interested is a proposed amendment to the constitution requiring requir-ing the board to pay improvement taxes against school property. Under the constitution, school property is exempt ex-empt from both general and special taxation. In years gone by the city and the board of education' have twice carried the question into the supreme ooitrt, and the board was victorious on fcoth occasions. The school board contends that the matter is one to be handled by each town and not by the state, inasmuch a3 the towns hare authority to levy special taxes, while the school board oan only recommend levies for educational educa-tional purposes. |