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Show Schools Raise Three Mil's To Balance Cripnled Budget In action Monday nij;;hl. Hie Cram! Hoard of hiduea-tiou hiduea-tiou imreaM.d its mill levy a total or three mills C partially make up a vh''.hOOO drop i revenues' 'lor the current year bit iielit about by decreased, assessed valuation. The Hoard increased its capital outlay levy by two mills; hvied .2 mills to provide pro-vide tu- liability insurance and .8 mills for recreational recreation-al expenditures in the District. Dis-trict. hriiK'iiij.- the total school-levy for Crand Coil) ty to a total of t:; mil's, compared to -10 mills for last year. The increased levy will put the District budget within $10 thousand of be-iiiir be-iiiir balanced. Superintendent Superintend-ent C. Robert Sundwall sta. tod. and he feels that amount am-ount can be trimmed from departmental budgets dur-inir dur-inir tho current year so that the year will not end in deficit. In capital outlay, certain projects will be deferred' for the present time, although al-though work on Now lloii-zons lloii-zons Center, Star Hall, both elementary schools and other current improvement improve-ment projects already underway, un-derway, will continue as planned. Tho spending plans will lie nitain reviewed on Monday, Mon-day, Atu'tisl :!0, the first day of the school year, when enrollment figures are known. A j;ood portion of school revenues come from the State Uniform School Cimd on the basis of enrollment. Superintend-out Superintend-out Sundwall staled that surveys conducted this summer sum-mer indicate that enrollment enroll-ment at. the beginninn of school will be near the PSM) figure that was listed at the end of the last school year. If that is the ease, In-said, In-said, the budeet will he fine. If that figure drops, however, another critical look will be needed for the spending' plan for the 1971-7'J 1971-7'J school year. The levy sotting- by the School District ends the round of levy increases experienced ex-perienced around the County Coun-ty during the past two weeks, hroueht about by devaluation de-valuation of property worth at the Texas Culf Sulphur potash complex by the State Tax Commission. A few weeks aro. tho Grand Fire District increased increa-sed its levy from .4 milis to a total of 2.0 mills the increase to provide for additional equipment. Tho Crand County Commissioners Commission-ers last week increased their levy by a total of 2 mills, to partially make up revenue losacs expected by the time their next budget is written in November of, this year. The total levy increase for tlie taxpayers in Grand County during the next year, then, will be G.G mills. There have been no increases increa-ses in total levy for a number num-ber of years, although some dii fling inside the levy was experienced. Last year, for instance, Crand County School'; dropped a total of four mills from their maintenance main-tenance and operation. That levy was promptly picked tin by Grand County to provide funding for a number of now programs initiated over ov-er the past few years. The net effect of that change was not felt by taxpayers' in general, since the total remained the same. This year's increase, however, will be felt by all taxpayers in tiie County. For (he average homeowner homeown-er with values on his property pro-perty set at around ?5,000 by the County Assessor, the increasis in property tax will amount to a little over ?::0. Grand County's assessed valuation dropped from over ov-er ,22 million in 1970, to $18.3 million this year following fol-lowing the receipt of figures fig-ures from the State Tax-Commission Tax-Commission on industrial and utilities values. |
