| Show BOARD TO THE VOTERS Issues an Address Ad dress on Proposed Constitutional Amendment iT VOTED DOWN That ir If I it I Ii curried url d I it 1 Greatly III to the Iho or cu erl ike he ban board or of promulgated the following to tIme voters oter to 10 today day Al AU the ot of the State SItt Ih share re Ln in inthe the general State Stale fund which I is apportioned to each school dIstrict upon the ball basis ot of ls It ached In addition to this each oh schol school dis Wet II by a school tax for tor maintenance purposeS IN cities ut of the fret fIrst and second nd under the law lawal lawas as al It stands at present the city R as a school district levies tH the ta t and nd other are by tl the county school tA tax This coun county t school taz I is limie limited tl to 4 mils mills and the revenue thus thul raised with the State Slaw fp or Is tie the fund which supports up rt the schools I It more funds are ne needed for tor time the eu arec of oC schol school ot of li etc I a la tax Is levied by each school district I if In a oiL city of oC the first chase I it mo a special school ta tn cue the whole cl city It If In IL a county district It II a special school ta tax Imle limited to that par ar district The Tue proposition before the people ii I to so 80 amend rhe Constitution u to en enable able eble time the Legislature to enat enact a law Iw which shall compel the orinal ordinary school tax to be levie levied uniformly thu hout the hie whole county and to Le be distributed to Lo each and E every school district In cities of oC the first and nd second nasa In iii the county count In proportion to Il its school population After tle school taw shall have hare been thus thu amended the count would fx lix the or of school ta taxes to b be levied uni throughout the whole county mad and to b be divided to each eh schol Ills chis net proportionately to the number ot of children In the dietrict We had hi system In vogue oge some ye years Igo ago mud and Lt It wa was th the custom ot of tle the county loner to lev levy a tax tarot ot 2 mia mIlls on in the dolar dollar for tor times the pl porpoise The re result ul of this system will 11 be to further burden the city ot of Si Salt Lake with the maintenance of oC schools schol ot of Ie ito limits an and relieve the ot of Salt J Jas y P 15 lr on n At present city ot of SRI Salt I Lake LAk c contribute like O mor hera thAn I it to the education ot of the ot of the State SIt outside ot of lt limits 1 If the Constitution and the present law ahal shall 1 be amended a mended this eCe excess ot of lone pid paid out over oer relve received for educational Purposes l II in Sal Salt Lake City t b be rad by an n additional al as ap apPears Pears from the followIng fp fIgure Total Salt Ik Lake county In lt 1100 11 ot of Sal Salt Lake Ike CI City ot of lal Salt lk Lake coUnt outside ot of SIL Silt Lake IAk City Sl lol Lake dy 41 ki Salt Jk Lake county oud ot of city T TU Total 24 2154 At 4 ml mIll UI the total school chol ta tax for tor Salt Lake Iak would b be at t amount Salt Lake would pa pay lal and nd the bl bill of It Iii I population would reh receive making an excess ut of moneys contributed over moneys ot of nUM the benefit of which would I go to th tb school ot of Salt Iak county out ot of the citY limits In th the same m Ild et manner Salt Ike county outside th the cl city would contribute and Would WOld receive la Is no basis bla ut of reton meason lit In the proposed ni The school dl di prOPe riot outside ot of Salt Lake CI City ar arto are trots 1041 mich much more Ibl able to educate their children to than th the of 01 Sal Salt tAke Lake CI City Their le are not sO high and their ability to 10 ia I is greater This le city ly limits ot of Sai Salt lAke City are ver very tide ty extended Within It I 5 limits I a wile l of area arv whelm is II very 1 sparsely settled Ind Indeed ed the area ot of Salt Sail lAke CIl City I is so 0 groat fat that It should hould l be Q a el city and count county b by nil the territory south uth ot of Salt alt Lake CIty ought to 1 be embraced In a count county h by itself I If this thiM were dOlI dotis any proposition compel Salt Lake City and county to hel help to educate the Iii children or of any other county would nt not for R a moment b be favorably Yet tha that II I exactly t wl will be the Hie of the passage ot of this amendment The par sheet et ot of the carrying ot of this amendment will 11 be to 10 cut down the county school chool tx tax front I 4 mis mills Il It pres present ent limit to I mills From lie fund thus derived the districts lying outside ot of Sal lAke City deriving as al they wold would so 0 much man mony from time the tae raised In Salt Lake Ike CI City would be able Sl rall to ti support their In much beUel batter shape than theY do at prent wIlle whIle tM the schools ot of Sal Salt Lake City d A revenue from a 2 mi mill tax of 01 a 4 11 ta tax 8 au at present would b be unable to keell the open more than leVen seven or eight In the year yearTh The Th total valuation for tor the Slat gist ot of Utah mah In UIS was I ro 0 the burden under which Salt Lake City Is nOO now laboring we call calla a attention to the following rurel The le State school tax is II three mie mills on the dollar The he total valuation on time the State St is II ot of which Salt Like City is II assessed at Th total State Slate school ta tax d derived Is II 81 The Th total school population ton ot of the State Slat I Is which 1 1 a Jr per capia capita ot of 11 Sal Salt Lake Ike City 1 has 1 a schol school population ft it Int nt at 7 per espita capia draws from th time Stal State fund but JUI I it to th the SIA State fund making an ex by y Sl Salt lo In lk Lake of Ito C tit |
