Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-05-23 | Page 11 | Assessor Refuses to Make New School Tax Levy

Assessor Refuses to Make New School Tax Levy iiwioii IS FOUGHT AS and One-Half-Mill Tax Adopted by Educational Body Illegal as 9', (Lexy, Declares Parsons TANDING squarely in the position po-sition he took when the city rd of education attempted to rur. a 91,4-milI lery A H. Par-M. Par-M. county assessor, declared to-j to-j that he will never voluntarily acta ac-ta to the modified demand of the ui which, at Ita meeting last night, -pted SW-inm levyprogrmnv Tbs acUoa of the board shows. In , cpinlon. that Its membera hove the truth of tho statement Mi, when I previously declared t mills was their limit," oald r Parsons. "Now they ar trying mwi that limit and effect a tora- 1w no chaage in tho legal status the ease and to my notion a H-11 H-11 levy Is Just as much llegal as the csed ISI-nilll levy would have C think the board of education Is iriiiret that the Ocden deoi- K on which It baaed Ita hope of Ming through tho Sis-mill levy. Mies only to cities of tho second as snd therefore does not operate tsve the education department of JUke. a city of tho first class. In- -as levying power. ltd the board taken a reasonable mate In tho first place the ques-a ques-a ailglit not have been raised, but tit is I shall not voluntarily accept last ructions for making a levy of vs than IV, in Ilia Tho case will nfcably reach the courts, for unless enandamus order from the supreme art Is served on me I shall refuse make the Hi -mill levy." pease of 3 Mt in Lery kn forecast In Ths Telegram last ek. school uses for 1 1 7 will be b la plus .$ for Interest, an Increase approximately I mills over last fs tax and a reduction of 4 mills Ms tho levy first proposed by the krd of education. rinal decision on the tax question s reached after a lengthy debate at I meeting nf the board of education I night. The vote wsa taken on a Itlon Introduced by W. .1. Bsrrette --- a i iiiiiih. wun me Itslon on the West Side High school J two Junior high schools to be en up In the form of a bond issue be voted by the people. The vote the Bsrrette motion was: For l-rette. Bascom. Bradford. Johnson, lib and Waason; against Karrell wque and Moyle. A motion Intro-d Intro-d by Arnold Giauque for a levy of mils was lost by a vote of t to 4. nder the levy of t mills th board receive $9M.OOO. sn Increase of too over last year It the conclusion of a debate among ?.Sf.,h8 bn,rd ' w" n- M ip 00 ot lbor- hded Ld 1, ? wl,n'd to be rration i," Mld th" ' 'e ?h VT mm's In Kelt Ml, llhlaJ . 'h "d""" Stood e he?Jl .d J"T mov on th Part dye board to better educational con. lCominuen ,, pige 4 BOARD'S ACTION (Continued from page I.) dltlona in the city. "Wi are in favor of the board standing by the original proposal of It mills for a tax levy. Any reduction, he aaid, would militate against an increase In salary for the teachers and llkewlae hamper the board in making necessary improvement improve-ment a in erhool buildings and In building build-ing a new high school on the weet aide.