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Show Cut 3.5 Percent Schools Pencil Reductions By GARY R. BLODGETT BOUNTIFUL Davis School District Supt. Lawrence Lawr-ence Welling has announced a proposed program whereby the district will attempt to cutback cut-back spending by 3.5 percent as requested by Gov. Scott Matheson. THE GOVERNOR has asked all state-financed agencies agen-cies to help balance the state budget by cutting back spend ing a minimum of 3.5 percent. The school district's proposal prop-osal calls for a reduction of $5 1 1 ,000, the superintendent told a group of state legislators at a Monday morning meeting at Servus Drug. THE CUTACK is in addition to a $1.6 million "fat-trimming" "fat-trimming" reduction that the district took upon itself earlier in 1980 when requesting a mill levy for new school construction. The half-million dollar cutback cut-back outlined by the superintendent superin-tendent will require a reduction reduc-tion in some full and part-time personnel, a reduction of some services, and transfer or adjustment ad-justment in other programs. THE LARGEST proposed cutback will be in custodial services which will amount to several custodial employees being dismissed for a savings of $93,000. A reduction of services, and a cutback in the summer program prog-ram and equipment replacement replace-ment will net a savingsof $84,000. A pay-as-you-go summer program will save an additional $60,000. EMERGENCY items costing cost-ing about $40,000 will be trimmed trim-med from instructional media and staff reduction at the district's dis-trict's Development Center has already saved $39,000, the superintendent noted. Special Education aides are to be eliminated except at Monte Vista School in Farm-ington Farm-ington thus creating a savings sav-ings of $30,000. Another $35,000 is expected to be saved by reducing by half the compensatory com-pensatory items in the district. THE BUDGET of instructional instruc-tional media is expected to be slashed by $45,000, from a budget of $145,000, and field trips among the secondary schools are expected to be reduced re-duced proportionately for a savings of $40,000 from a budget of $68,000, according to the proposal. Also, the summer driver education program will be eli minated with all students qualifying qual-ifying for driver education taking tak-ing the course during the regular regu-lar school year. This would provide a savings pf about $10,000. i SUPT. WELLING said the proposed reductions include 12 categories, hoping that no single program would be too seriously affected, but noting that some pretty drastic adjustments adjust-ments would have to be made. He emphasized to the state legislators that the school district dis-trict is reducing its budget by more than $2 million without knowing if there will be continued con-tinued federal aid through House Bill 874. "IF WE DON'T get at least part of these funds, we're going to be left with quite a deficit, perhaps as much as $900,000," the superintendent told the legislators. f "However, we're hoping to get about $800,000 from HB-874 HB-874 funds and the remaining $100,000 would have to be made up from district funds, probably coming from the capital outlay interest-reserve fund." i |
