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Show I SgBuooI Boardl Sets Hearing) 1 si $51 Million 76-77 Mffijelt S By DAVE WIGHAM Davis County School Districts Dis-tricts Board of Education approved a tenative budget of $51,195,500 for operation of schools for 1976-77. THIS total is an 11 percent increase over the budget the district is operating on this year. Nearly half of the proposed i increase comes under the in-: in-: struction category which includes teacher's salaries. Instruction costs will increase about $2 million bringing the total to $25.8 million. A PUBLIC hearing on the budget is scheduled for June 22 at 7:30 p.m. at the School Board Administration Building Build-ing at 45 East State Street in Farmington. The board also learned from accountant Lou Beck that the mill levy for the county next year will rise from 21.47 to 23.65. THIS increase is imposed by the Utah State Tax Commission, Commis-sion, and that if the county fails to meet that level it would loose state educational funds. Bond interests, tort liability and sinking funds bring the total mill levy to 37.26. BOARD President Hansen pointed out that the mill levy imposed by the state is a minimum but that the budget should do no more than comply with the law in respect to the levy. Superintendent Wrigley ob served that last year's levy was the lowest in the state, and that he expected that to be the case again this year, dw |