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Show Important Vote in Granite District Tuesday, April 1, will be an important day for the residents of Granite School District. For it is on that day they will go to the polls to vote on two important proposals presented by the Granite District Board of Education. These two issues are separate in terms of legal application (Continued on Page Four) Important Vote in Granite District (Continued from Page 1) and are separate in terms of how the money can be spent, if the people approve the proposals. The first issue is designed so that the school district can sell bonds to equal ten per cent of the assessed valuation of the Granite School District. This will bring the bonding program of the district to the maximum. The people will be asked to approve the sale of $4,200,000 in bonds and the bonds would be sold over the next two years. For the school year 1958-59 the elementary schools will have half or more of their students going to school on half-day sessions. ses-sions. With the students already living in Granite District plus those from one to five years the district will have to provide for an additional 12,000 in the next five years. If the people approve this bond issue, the tax levy for this purpose will remain the same. If they do not approve the issue, the levy will remain the same. The bonds will be extended into the future. There is no doubt but what additional revenue, and this has to be taxes, would help to make a better school program pro-gram in the Granite District. The second issue that the people will be asked to vote on is one to authorize the school board to levy up to 25 per cent of the basic school program. If the Granite School Board levied this total amount it would mean an additional six mills added to the tax levy. At the presentt ime, the school board has stated that they would levy three mills for next year rather than the six so that the increase in taxes for 1958-59 would not be more than three mills. The average home in Granite School District is ..valued at something around $2,238 so that the tax for this home for the average year would be $6.71. The money from the mill levy increase would be used by the district to increase supplies, equipment, textbooks and salaries sal-aries for all personnel in the district. Your "yes" vote on these two issues would mean that the Granite School District would be doing all that they have been legally allowed to do by. the legislature. The school board cannot increase supplies and equipment without additional money nor can they build additional classrooms without additional money. r ' |