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Show Budget Approved for Alpine District; Board Slated for Election Alpine Board of Education recently approved a $16.4 million mil-lion budget for the 1972-73 year. Retained also for another year was the district tax levy of 47.45 mills. Included in the budget of $16,436,486.58 are $2 million of bond sales which are part of the $8 million bond voted to the school board on May 9. Other revenues for the 1972-73 1972-73 year come from state sources sour-ces ($8,432,000), local sources, ($2,768,000) and capital outlay and debt service ($1,873,500). School lunches account for $962,000 of which federal sources sour-ces provide $418,000 while $70,000 comes from the recreation rec-reation fund and another $19,000 from the government immunity fund. Nearly half of the adopted budget will be spent for instruction, in-struction, meaning salaries and textbooks. That category a-mounts a-mounts to $7,638,000 including $305,000 in salary increases. Captial outlay and debt service ser-vice require $3,265,000. Fixed charges such as the retirement fund and insurance amount to $1,959,000 and the school lunch programs will cost an estimated estimat-ed $1,013,000. Operation of plants was assigned as-signed $887,000 and community commun-ity services and the special programs budget is $779,000. Plant maintenance was set at $328,000, pupil transportation at $240,000 and administration costs at $155,000. Recreation costs will amount to $70,000, health costs were set at $23,000 and $19,000 is assigned to the government immunity im-munity fund. Educational data processing will receive $19,872. An undistributed reserve a-mount a-mount of $40,613.86 will complete com-plete the proposed expenditures for 1972-73. The board announced that sealed bids for the purchase of the $2 million bonds will be opened in a public session at 10 a.m. on June 28 at the school district offices, 50 N. Center in American Fork. In other action, the board raised the activity fees for the 1972-73 year. Rental of band instruments was changed from five to ten dollars for the year. Towel rental in the senior high school was increased from $1.50 to $2.00. The activity fee was raised from $7 to $9 for grades 10-12. Ninth grade fees for students attending a senior high were moved from five to seven dollars. A change in athletic insurance insur-ance was approved whereby each school provides blanket coverage for the students in place of the previous policy of each athlete having to pay for his own insurance. The five positions on the board are all open in the November No-vember election due to reapor-tionment. reapor-tionment. A primary election will be held Sept. 12, but candidates can-didates must file in writing with the county clerk not later than June 28. A candidate may file in person or five citizens may file on behalf of a candidate. candi-date. Two candidates for Precincts Four and Five will be elected to the board for two-year terms and candidates from Precincts One, Two and Three will serve four-year terms. According to Supt. Dan W. Peterson, there will be 20 additional ad-ditional teachers in the district next year, and about 500 more students. |
