Show Utah To Need New Classrooms By Bv 1964 Utah will have to build c 80 new classrooms by lk 1004 or 4 classrooms by 1974 In order to meet existing backlogs gs provide for or anticipated enrollment In fn Increases Increases In- In creases and make allowance for forthe forthe or orthe the replacement o of buildings which will become obsolete dur 0 ing these periods This ate o of school buildIng building build build- ing needs was contained col In an extensive extensive ex ex- analysis analysts of the at states state's tes te's school housing problem released this week by Utah Found Foundation the private governmental re re- search agency I. I The report observes that Utah I must build classrooms each year In ord order r to provide for or all aU needs by the 70 1969 school chool year ear oi Dr new classrooms each year eat In order to meet all requirements require menu ments by the 75 1974 school chool year ear In order to provide for tor or emergency emergency emerge ency envy needs needs- only as determined by the School Building Advisory Committee of the Utah Legisla Legislative tive Co Council classrooms must b be built during each year forthe for tor or the he next three years Foundation analysts note that If an average cost of at per classroom IS assumed Utah must I i spent million each year until until until un un- til 1969 or million each year Until 1974 In order to me meet t these needs Providing for or emergency emergency emergency em needs only by 1961 1001 would take an art annual expenditure expendi expendi- ture of million during each of the next three thre years Actual expenditures for tor or school sites new construction and additions ns excluding remodeling and equipment equip ment averaged million annually annually an an- during the past four our years The TIre amount spent for tor or new schools was million last lost school year All Alt but five of Utah's 40 school districts should be able to finance their emergency school building build ing needs needs by 1961 with local l resources resources re reo re- re sources sources according to a study by bythe bythe bythe the School Building Advisory Com Committee m 1 t tee The emergency needs that cannot be met from rom local resources for or these five ive districts districts dis dis- dis total If the reduction re reo reduction of overcrowded classrooms class class- rooms were included as an an emergency emergency em need the deficit would be I The Foundation mentions that the School Building Advisory Committee has recommended the continuance of state aid for or local I school building construction but I that opinion on the Committee is sharply divided as to how such old lid should be tie distributed One group group led by the professional school representation on the committee com com- committee favors a permanent continuing continuing continuing con con- program of state aid for school buildings Other Committee Commit Commit- Committee tee members members' maintain that aid old for building purposes should remain remain re reo main on a temporary temporary emergency c cy basis and concentrated in the districts where the greatest need exists A significant point made in the Utah Foundation study is that the birthrate in Utah has leveled off since 1950 1950 and that school enrollments enrollments en en- should begin to leveloff leveloff level levet levetoff off during the latter or orthe orthe or orthe the early part of the 1970 decade The report observes that enrollment enrollment enrollment en increases increases' are not ot eXp expected to be as large as as' s' s they are now and have been durIng during during dur dur- ing the past few years Foundation analysts analyst note that the principal reason for the large increases in school enrollments during the past few years has been that the youths who are leaving the public school system were were born during the low birth rate depression years while the children entering the public schools were born during the high rate birth-rate postwar years I By the latter part of the 19 how however er all the students who will wilt be leaving the public I schools will have been born in inI inthe inthe the postwar era of high birth I rates Thus the net difference In the number of off those entering and those leaving will win not be as I great as it has been during tie the past ten years |