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Show SCHOOL GYM RENTALS Editor: Why do we have to pay so much for the use of the gyms? Take Mytonfs gym, for example. When we use the lights it only costs less than 254: per hour. If it is used before 5:00 p. m. , no lights are used. For water, this has a flat rate whether you use one or one thousand gallons. As for the floors, the custodian cus-todian has to finish them whether whe-ther they are used for other tilings or not. The school has its lunch in the gym, and the floor has to be finished about every six weeks. What use it gets after this doesn't make any difference. The rest rooms are just like the gym. The custodian has to take care of the floors even if no one uses them. The custodian gets $2.00 an hour for opening up and staying there to watch things. What we would like to know is why we have to pay $4. 00 an hour when it only cost $2. 25 to operate. One club in Roosevelt used the junior high gym for its archery and now the members have to go somewhere else or just give it up. There is a lot of kids who use these gyms and it helps keep them out of trouble. Now what are they going to do? Run the streets, or is the school board going to let us do something for them? The gym rentals ought to be lowered so that we can afford to rent them. As far as we can see, that is the taxpayers, we own these facilities and should be able to use the gyms anytime" (other than school time) at the actual cost of their use. Tabiona, Neola, Mytonj Roosevelt Elementary, and Roosevelt Jr. High gyms should all have the same rental ren-tal per hour. We were already al-ready paying $2. 50 an hour, which looks like werwere covering the cost. Now. the gyms are not being used at all by anyone since they raised the rent. The Myton gym was used a total of 30 hours from August 20 to January 11 and only once since. A total of $92. 00 was paid by the users up to Jan. 11 and $4. 00 since. The hours were as follows: Aug. -9hrs., Sep.-O, Oct. -5 12 hrs. , Nov. -4 12 hrs. , Dec. -10 12 hrs. , and Jan. - 2 12 hrs. Of those hours the gym was used, no heat at all was added. Heat is used up until 1:00 p. m. and turned off. It isn't turned on again until the next morning, and this is to heat up the gym for lunch. Let's get the rent lowered. hi DUCHESNE COUNTY TAXPAYERS |