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Show I i ijikefcildoeview.SaturdnrAptMJQQ STREET TALK... m hat rcviJcnu of Daw County ihir.k about the What about upcoming school bond election? sta School enrollment i grow mg anj tljot are large, fourteen elementary diool in the Djvjs School district are on year-roun- d schedules, and portable are commonplace. And there Mill tnt room for all of the ttudent. according to dotrict leader. The school d:trict will hold an election for a S75 million construction bond May 6. The money would be uwd to build seven new elementary schools, buy land for 1 1 school sites, add classroom to 10 school and renovate another seven schook If approved. Davi County resident will pay an additional $39 a year on a SI00.0OQ home. Thats an increase of $3 25 a month. The bond i not the only issue on the ballot. There will also be a voted leeway tax of .0006 tax rate. The change to the taxpayer on a $100, 000 home would be nothing the first two year, but the third year it would be SI 1. S22 the fourth year and $33 the fifth year. Davis District Superintendent Darrell K. White said the voted leeway qualifies the district to receive more than $2 million in new ongoing state fund and will provide start-u- p funds for 282 new classroom. In random interview, the Lakeside Review asked Davi County resident their feeling on the upcoming election. Robin Judd Layton I dont think $39 i an exorbitant amount. I would xote for it. Education is so important, you can't put a price on education. It is going to give u smaller classrooms right? I dont fully understand that (the leeway.) I guess that is necessary." Lynn Robinson Kaysville "I think the schools are already overfunded and I feel like every time the politicians want something they hold education hostage, think theres a better solution. Im just not for raising the taxes at all. I dont think the money is used wisely a it is. What the kids are taught in school isn't all relevant to school. I don't want it but they will give it to me anyway. Ill go out and vote, but I voted against the tax on groceries also and that didnt work out for me either. Jeff Tinsley Clearfield Information age on way to rural parts Guest Columnist By DAN GUCKMAN - Secretary, U.S. Department of Education .hrn the 20th century, a strong I public education ' : .. system "IJLopened the door to the American Dream for all our children. Now, as we head into a new mil-- ; lennium, folks want to know: 'Will young rural Americans have . access to the 21st century Ameri-- : jean Dream? I We are entering the Informa-- 'lion Age wheir 60 percent of U.S. Jobs will require a high level of .technological skills. Together, we jean make sure rural America is .ready. As you may know, President Qinton has made education the ' . top priority of his second term. iHe has challenged every commu- - . pity across the country to link ev-- . ery classroom1 and every library to the information superhighway ; by the year 2000. This is an important goal. It . ensures that all our young people they live in a comfortable suburb, the inner city or a remote rural town - have access to the same universe of knowledge. To this day, I hear stories about classrooms with encyclopedias that still say, one day we may have a man on the moon. All that could change with the click of a mouse. We need to make computer literacy a core component of a quality education. - whether For decades, USDA has worked hard to bring the best in communications technology to rural America. Especially in recent years, this effort has transformed the rural way of life, enabling rural citizens to transcend geographic boundaries. Today, we use cyberspace to Right route follows Bluff Road ' As long as I can remember, Im 72 years old, there was going , to be a highway along the Bluff ' Road.; My grandfather, Thomas J. Thurgood, the first mayor of Syracuse in 1933, used to tell us about it. It has been on the mas-te- r plan ever since there was a . mastef plan. And to my knowledge never legally removed. i . ' I vyould not think UDOT would even consider any other route.- - The of against prime 1 Mayor Art Johnson Home 544-84Joe Hill Home 544-321 Stephen Whitesides ' Honie 544-32Brian ,D. Cook Horte 544-58- ' Reed Nelson Home 546-491- 2 Home 451-60- to college. There are hundreds more stories like hers. Since 1993, Commissioner Gayle Stevenson (R) Davis County Courthouse 28 E. I am certainly not in favor of having to raise taxes for projects that are totally unnecessary. Please keep the highway on the Bluff Road where our forefathers intended it to be. That is our Legacy. Dane C. Thurgood Syracuse Layton City Council Mayor Jerry Stevenson 2 Home 544-517- Brent A. Allen Home 547-902- 8 Lyndia Graham 3 Home Debra Ledkins 1 Home Stuart Adams 544-442- Home 544-010- Steve Curtis Home 546-44- 9 49 ' State Farmington, Utah 84025 Office 451-32- 00 Dannie Commissioner McConkie (R) Davis County Courthouse 28 E. State Farmington, Utah 84025 Office 451-32- 00 Commissioner Carol R. Page (R) Davis County Courthouse 28 E. State Farmington, Utah 84025 Office 546-353- ' Robert H. Rees farm ground. Government directory Kaysvllle City Council n. , USDA has given nearly S41 million in distance learning and telemedicine grants. This spring, we will start a $150 million loan program to expand our efforts to link schools and libraries to the Internet. Were also donating our surplus computers to needy communities. Many times, the kids use them by day, and their parents learn how to log on in night school. This way, they can add computer skills to their resume. Together, we can ensure the information superhighway intersects the country road. Technology has made our world smaller, but our challenges and opportunities are greater. USDA stands ready to do our part to prepare young rural Americans for the demands and rewards of the 21st century. GOVERNMENT DIRECTORY any other route would not be feasible. We are comparing pasture ground bring together a specialist in a big-cit-y hospital with a patient in a small rural town. We can link a Japanese language teacher with students who are hundreds of miles away. . I would like to share just one success story. A high school senior from Shallotte, N.C., (population 1,123) wanted to take an AP statistics course to improve her chances of getting accepted into a good college. Unfortunately, the course was not available at her small rural high school. USDA offered the local community college a distance learning grant that enabled her to take the course using interactive video. She did well, and is now a freshman at the university of She North Carolina-Wilmingtois also the first in her family to go 451-32- 00 Clinton City Council Mayor DeMar Mitchell Home 773-58- . 8 Home 776-086- 3 Bill Russell Home 825-93- Richard Lee Home 825-689- Home 773-195- . Mayor Gregory S Home Pat Achter Home Bell 451-72- 451-50- I know about it, but I dont know how I feel about it. Yes its necessary. I think its a necessity and when we get a necessity, I think its something we have to accept. Without it we go backwards and with it we go forward. With the amount of growth Davis County is having at the time, I know they are way behind on financing for schools. A bond election is going to be inevitable. So I gyess Im going to have to say Im in favor of it even though I'm at the age where I dont want to be shelling out for somebody elses kids, but they shelled out for mine when my kids were starting out, somebody did. I have grandkids. I have coming. They are going to need to be in the school system. Im not aware of that (leeway). But I still feel quite strongly that the schools system is heavily administrative. I think there are too many dollars going to the administration rather than to the teaching or the facilities to teach in...weve go to get back to the point where the teacher is over those children and we havent got nine or 10 people seeing that that teacher is doing her work. As long as it does the school district good. They need it, Layton especially needs it. They needs some good teachers up here. The more money, good teachers. I go along with them both, (bond and leeway.) My main reason if for my kids. I have two in school. 451-24- 451-53- David M. Connors Home Larry W. Haugen Home Fruit Heights City Council 451-28- 451-73- - Giles Clearfield Layton 2 Farmington City Council Home AI Shelly Ware 5 Merlin Mitchell Home 45 773-563- 825-841- Tammy Boyce 64 99 Home Arverd Taylor Gary E. Elliott Clearfield City Council Mayor Neldon Hamblin Home 825-58E. Gene Fessler Home 825-55Diane Layton Home 825-78Martin Eliason Home 773-61, Curtis Oda Home 773-97Garr L. Roundy 9 Home Dennis Simonsen It sounds good to me. Im in the construction business. We build a lot of schools. It would help me on my job and it would help the kids who need more schools. I dont know about that (leeway). I think the initial bond to get the schools built is what they need. I think that any other help should be out of the school funding that is allowed in the state. If they are going to build more schools they ought to allow more money for them. You cant build more schools and not have more money put out for them. You have to raise the budget. I don't think they should try to charge the taxpayers more money to try to keep the schools up. Another raise to do that, 1 think it all should be included in the initial bond. Thats not too much to put into the school, but then to ask for an additional bond to put more money into teachers and books, I dont think so, I dont agree with that. Mayor Richard L. Harvey 8 Home Richard Muhlestein 9 Home Tina LePendu 9 Home 544-436- 544-173- 546-378- Michael Reid Layton I think its a great deal. Id pay an extra $39 a year on my property taxes to go toward education. I think education is quite important. Of course my dads a school teacher, works for Davis School District at Sunset Junior. I think its a good way of having people help the education here in Davis County. I think it is worth it myself. I would vote for it. I guess I would vote yes then. Id have to research the leeway a little bit more, but I guess Id have to say yes on both right now. But I would want to research it a little bit more though. |