Show MAY THE TE BOARD BORROW Queston Question for Taxpayers to Deter Determine mine at the Electon Election Tomorrow AMOUNT NEEDED IS nhat II liar t BOrcI or II time by the loard So tar far no great amount of Interest ha haben has ben been shown In the school eleton election to be beheld held hild tomorrow when whon the taxpayers are areto to determine whether or t the e board of education shall brrow borrow to en enable enable able the public schools to continue wih with theIr work for the ful full school year ear earIn In order that the importance of thIs electon election may be beter better understood the tho board has Issue issued the following address To the CItIzens and Taxpayers ot of Snit Salt Lake undersigned the member members of your bor board of education It proper that they should In a public manner sot forth the facts which make mako It necessary for them to call a l special election for the tho purpose of empowerIng them to brow borrow the sum ot of twenty thousand dolar dollars for fortie forthe tie the support ond and maintenance of the schools for tor the nInth school month ot of this year The law which operate operates u upon on the board ot of education as wel well as upon other municIpal corporations forbids us from Incurring any edness In excess of the amount of the current Income derived from State and municipal taxatIon Every check by the clerk and paid by the treasurer of our board bears a to the effect that the expenditure is within the debt limIt Accordingly when we have reached the limit of ox permitted by statute theta are but two alternatives The first Is Isto to close the schools and thereby limit our expenses the other is to appeal to you for to exceed by a given amount the debt limit We arc of the opinion that it i not your wish that the school year be shortened and we weare are airs of the opinion that when the facts are properly given and under understood stood the permission requested will be cheerfully given The schools are main tamed for yourselves and your dren and for no private benefit of our Glen and we therefore have no lion In placing before you a full state meat of the emergency which confronts us COST OP THE SCHOOLS The expenditures connected with the maintenance of our schools have increased yearly as our school population tion has increased The roil of Salt Lake City indicates the amount of our income the amount al allowed lowed to be assessed being limited law This or the year was The assessment roll for tha current year Is showing a decrease of Our income was thereby decreased the sum of in addition to this falling off of revenue the Increase of enrollment to wit entails additional lure The average cost of each pupIl in inthe the schools is 1714 ranking a total additional cost for time year of Our cash revenue is thus about lean than last year Ve have reason to believe and do belIeve that in the future the assessed valuation will be increased and that our revenues will never at any future time fall to so low a fIgure EFFECT OF ts already indicated the only thing that we can tIe is to close the schools when our linde have been exhausted From our personal estimates it we do donot not get permission to borrow the which we ask of you it will be necea sary for us to further shorten our school year which is already too short by closing the schools at the end of the eighth month We are confident that you will with us that this ought by all means to be averted It would be a calamity for many reasons The school work has been planned upon the basis of nine full months of school To close the schools no long before the cx of this time necessary to do the work outlined will involve loss to the pupils which cannot be rondo up anti for which there WIll be no lion Failure to complete the work will result in no promotion It not now appear that graduation from either the eighth grade or the high school will at the close of the year All classes will carry over into next year anti thus the work of the coming year will be embarrassed by the misfortune of the present one Under ordinary conditions the are crowded but if pupils are not graduated greater congestion will re cult and additional expense The sum summet met vacation vill be our months in duration a long period of idleness which all parents will deplore This is not a propositIon to bond the school district We propose but a temporary loan which under the am with our treasurer will bear no interest E W WILSON E Ii t If AG VM 1 I OSCAR V 13 S Jr p pW W A NEIDEN SIMON Members of the Board of Education Mr Moyle agrees with all of the above except the statement that Failure to complete the work wIll result in no promotion |