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Show Utah Foundation Reports on Heed Of Increased Building of Schools youths who are i public school system during the loth?? b pression years, whiL If e dren entering the Put he A' were born during !C SchoL. birth-rate post wfr v the latter part 0l B, however, all the stl , will be leaving schools will hav "e m the postwar era of I born rates. Thus, the net N in the number of the- ferencTll and those leaving I I as great as it has 2, the past ten years r'nl L ' ifl tions that the School Building Build-ing Advisory Committee has recommended the continuance of state aid for local school building construction, but that opinion on the Committee is sharply divided as to how such aid should be, distributed. One group led by the professional school representation on the committee, favors a permanent continuing program of state aid for school buildings. Other Committee members maintain that aid for building purposes should remain on a temporary-emergency temporary-emergency basis and concentrated concentra-ted in the districts where the Council, 546 classrooms must be built during each of the next three school years. Foundation analysts note that if an average cost of $40,000 per classroom is assumed, as-sumed, Utah must spend $15.1 million each year until 1969, or $12.5 million each year until 1974 in order to meet these needs. Providing for "emergency "emergen-cy needs" only by 1961 would take an annual expenditure for school sites, new construction and additions (excluding remodeling re-modeling and equipment) averaged aver-aged $17.9 million annually is the past four years. I Utah will have to build 4,180 new classrooms by 1964 or 4,888 classrooms by 1974 in order to meet existing backlogs, back-logs, provide for anticipated enrollment of buildings which will become obsolete during these periods. This estimate of school building build-ing needs was contained in an extensive analysis of the state's school housing problem released releas-ed this week by Utah Foundation, Founda-tion, the private governmental research agency. The report observes that Utah must build 380 classrooms each year in order to provide for all needs by the 1969-70 school year. In order to provide pro-vide for "emergency needs" only, as determined by the School Building Advisory Committee Com-mittee of the Utah Legislative greatest need exists. A significant point made in the Utah Foundation study is that the birthrate in Utah has leveled off since 1950 and that school enrollments should begin be-gin to level off during the latter lat-ter 1960's or the early part of the 1970 decade. The report observes ob-serves that "enrollment increases in-creases after 1965 are not expected ex-pected to be as large as they are now and have been during the past few years." Foundation analysts note that the principal reason for the large increases in school enrollments during the past few years has been that the The 1 amount spent for new schools was $20.7 million last school year. All but five of Utah's 40 school districts should be able to finance their "emergency" school building needs by 1961 with local resources, according to a study by the School Building Build-ing Advisory Committee. The "emergency needs" that cannot can-not be met from local resources resour-ces . for these five districts total to-tal '$6,638,500. If the reduction o f overcrowded classrooms were included in an "emergency "emer-gency need" the deficit would be $14,522,500. The Foundation report men- |