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Show Schools: Cut $1.4 Million By TOM BL SSELBERG FARMINGTON Thanks to Tuesday night legislative action ac-tion the Davis School District is faced with cutting $1.4 million mil-lion from its maintenance and operations budget. THE LEGISLATURE during dur-ing its special session concurred concur-red in both houses to a 3.5 percent per-cent cut recommendation for various agencies, including school districts. That means the district will receive $1.4 million less in state funding, re-ported re-ported Supt. Lawrence Welling. In the board of education's regular meeting Tuesday night, they adopted a proposed trimmine plan that would cut i $5 1 1 .000 from the current budget. And. although the prospect is still "tenuous at best." the district could receive re-ceive S800.000 additional in federal impact aid monies and utilize $100,000 from the capital capit-al improvement (construction) budget to meet the $1.4 million : cut. he explained. Included in the S500.000-plus cuts: A TRIM of $93 .000 in custodial cus-todial costs brought on mainly by "rescheduling, reducing and redirecting" some areas, with the prospect of a "white glove inspection" not very possible under current conditions. condi-tions. Supt. Welling quipped. A $30,000 special education educa-tion cut in elimination of aides that will not affect Monte Vista. $60,000 Savings by putting put-ting summer programs on a "pay as you go" basis where fees will be imposed on participants. partici-pants. An across the board : $40,000 cut out of $68,000 budgeted for field trips, meaning mean-ing a "substantial reduction" in the superintendent's words. CUT OF $84,000 in vocational voca-tional education by reducing services, the summer program and equipment replacement. Reducing "compensatory education" or primarily bilingual biling-ual education by half, fora savings sav-ings of $35,000. That means a reduction in bilingual aides for those foreign-speaking students stu-dents needed help with English. En-glish. A ONE-third reduction in instructional media purchases, or $45,000, on orders not already made for new materials, mate-rials, creating an even more serious se-rious potential problem in the future, according to School Board Vice President Dee Forbes, who recalled the cuts already made in that area earlier ear-lier this year. A $20,000 trimming in the adult high school fulfilled by increasing classroom size. DRIVER education summer sum-mer programs will be discontinued discon-tinued for a $10,000 savings. Community education directors will see their time reduced re-duced by one-half for a $25,000 savings with the superintendent superinten-dent noting volunteer help could possibly aid in maintaining maintain-ing current program levels. ALREADY accomplished savings totalling $79,000 include in-clude staff attrition at the Davis County Development Center and a $30,000 attrition for special education. Supt. Welling said the 31: percent cut is "effective immediately" im-mediately" and noted the district dis-trict is already hard-pressed financially after making $1.6 million in cuts over the past year to meet expected reductions reduc-tions in "874" federal impact aid funding. BOARD CLERK Roger Glines pointed to a possible bright spot for the federal impact im-pact aid when he said a conver-sation conver-sation that morning with Washington. D.C. indicated Congress had in effect approved continued 874 expenditures ex-penditures at the 1980 fiscal year levels. That would mean the district could receive its last year's appropriation of $2 million. But the "continuing resolution" resolu-tion" effecting the possibility was "at best tenuous" according accord-ing to Supt. Welling, especially with the district audit showing only a $5,200 surplus at the end of the 1979-80 fiscal year ending en-ding June 30, 1980. HE SAID his "private hopes that if there were any (874) funds above the (anticipated) $1.2 million we could start some kind of a reserve" were dashed by the new mandate. The $100,000 possibility from capital outlay sources could result from lower bids received for several projects than had been anticipated with excess funds invested at the available high interest rates. |