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Show TAXES FOR SCHOOL To educate the boys and girls of the elementary grades and high schools of Utah county during the coming school year will require 876,290, according to the budgets submitted sub-mitted by the Nebo, Alpine and Provo school districts to the county commission. Of this amount it is estimated that it will be necessary to raise by taxation $477,057, while $399,233 will be received through other sources. The total estimated expenses for operating the schools in the various districts are as follows: Nebo district, $366,-700 $366,-700 ; Provo city, $203,590 ; Alpine district, $306,000. Of these amounts the county commission has been asked to raise by taxation for the Nebo district, $177,000; for Provo city schools, $90,000 ; for Alpine district, $173,227. The largest source of receipts outside of the taxation is from the state school fund paying $25 per capita and from the state high school fund. It is estimated, according to the figures given in the budgets that Utah county will get a total of $365,296 from the state for school purposes. Of this amout $350,496 will come from the state school fund of $25 per capita while $14,800 will come from the state high school fund. Nebo district, being the largest district in the county, will receive $138,000 from the state funds ; Provo city schools, $106,500: Alpine district. $120,796. The board of education of the 1 Nebo school district asked for a levy of 8.4 mills, while County Auditor! Clifford E. Wright, after complet-1 ing an audit of the district, recob- j mended to the county commission that the levy he set at 7 mills. The Nebo district budget is as j follows: Supervision and summer i work, $4300; teachers' salaries, ; $190,000; text books, $G,200; school, supplies, $6,500; janitors' salaries,! $19,000; janitors supplies, $1,400; fuel, water, light, $13,000; repair and replacement, $15,000 ; transportation, trans-portation, $15,000; rent and insurance, insur-ance, $1,000 ; general administrative expense, $11,300; buildings, $30,000; furniture, $3,000; miscellaneous operating op-erating expense $2,000; uncollected taxes, $13,000; sinking fund, bond rent, and floating interest, $30,-000; total $366,700. The estimated receipts from other sources of the Nebo district are as follows: state school fund, $25 per capita, $132,000; state high school fund, $6,000; Smith-Hushes work, $1,900; forest reserve, $S00; tuition, $2,000; probable tax redemption, $11,000; total, $153,700, leaving $213,000 to be raised by tax levy In the school district. The Provo city school budget as drawn up by Ole E. Olson, president presi-dent of the board of education, and Eugene Jones, secretary of the board, is as follows: All salaries, $140,155; fuel, watir and light, $8,250 ; janitors' supplies, $R00 ; general gen-eral expenses, $1,100; school supplies, sup-plies, $4,000; textbooks, $4,500; repairs re-pairs and replacements, $3,500; election, $50; interest on bonds, $6.435 ; bonds redeemed, $8,500 ; office supplies, $550; buildings, $20,-000; $20,-000; furniture and apparatus, $3,000 ; insurance, $1,500 ; trans-, portation, $400 ; interest, $600 ; enumeration, $250; total, $203,590. The estimated receipts from. other sources of the Provo city school district dis-trict is as follows: State school fund, $103,200; state high school fund, $3,300; rent, $285; department depart-ment fees, $2,300; miscellaneous receipts, re-ceipts, $1,675'; total, $112,760; leaving leav-ing $90,830 to be raised by levy. The estimated levy of the Provo city schools is 10.30 mills. The highest levy required is that of (he Alpine school district, where it will be necessary to levy 11.49 mills in order to raise the necessary amount of $173,279 needed above the $132,721 estimated to be received from other sources. The Alpine district budget fol- ' lows : ' Salary and expenses of administrative adminis-trative officers, $7,665; operation of office, $1,050; census expense, $250; salaries of teachers and supervisors, super-visors, $155,000; texts and supplies, $10,000; other expenses of instruction, instruc-tion, $1,200; janitors' salaries, $13,-500; $13,-500; janitors' supplies, $1,100: fuel, water and light, $14,000; other school plant operations, $1,000; re- pairs and replacements of buildings. 1 $6,000; upkeep of grounds, $500;: repair of equipment, $5,000; insur- i ance, $2,000; libraries, $1,000; pro motion of health, $l,80O; transportation transporta-tion of students, $9,000; additions and improvements to school buildings, build-ings, $18,000; interest on bonds. $2S.3S5; other interest, $2,500; bond payments, $14,000; controversy over Lelii high school, $2,5o0; uncollected uncollect-ed taxes. $10,750 ; total, .ftJuO.OUO. The estimated receipts of Alpine school district from other sources than taxation are as follows: State school fund, $115,296 ; tuition, $2.500 ; federal subsidary (Smith-llughes), (Smith-llughes), $2,750: state high school fund, $5,500; interest on average balance, $150; revenue from forest reserve, $1,025; county tax sales and redemptions, $5,500; total, $132,721. |