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Show 1 Statehouse Report Two. Largest Utah School Districts Fail to Negotiate 1970 Cesifroxh By C. SHARP Utah's two largest school districts - Granite and Salt Lake City-stll were deadlocked with teachers' tea-chers' associations on contracts con-tracts for the new year as school opening time, Aug. 31 approaches. Salt Lake City District which probably will be displaced this year by Davis as the second-largest school district, has announced that its schools will open Apg. 31 regardless regard-less of whether teachers have signed contracts. Granite has made no public pub-lic announcement as to whether it will resume schbol sessions without teacher contracts. The Salt Lake Teachers Teach-ers Association Friday called on Gov. Calvin L, Rampton to intervene to insure negotiating a spe-, , edy settlement. This was in response to announcement announce-ment by Rampton, Aug 20 that he "might as' them to ask me" to step in. Catalyst Role Rampton sad he hoped that he and Dr. Walter D. Talbot, state superintendent superintend-ent of public instruction, might be useful as a catalyst cat-alyst in bringing both sides together. The city board's offer now is a four per cent salary increase with nego-tations nego-tations to continue. Granite District has offered of-fered a 3.63 per cent increase. in-crease. The Granite Education Edu-cation Association still is holding out for an eight per cent increase. Rampton, meanwhile has reiterated that he again will press for enactment of a teacher negotiaton law at the 1971 session of the Legislature. Carbon Closure The state has been for-: for-: tunate, he said, that during dur-ing " his administration the longest period of any school closure for lack of a contract was seven days in 1968 when Carbon District's Dis-trict's schools did not operate. op-erate. Effective Oct. 1, Utah public assistance grants will be chopped five per cent, reducing the amount from $99 to $94 for a single sin-gle person. This action and other steps to cut welfare costs were taken by the State Family Service Board Aug. 19 on recommendation recommenda-tion of the governor. Rampton said the deficit defi-cit in state welfare funds for the fiscal year ended June 30 was $613,000. At the present rate of spending spend-ing for public assistance and medicaid, this deficit defic-it is growing at a rate of more than $150,000 a month, he said. Other steps taken are: General Assistance Cut Cutting the general assistance as-sistance program (supported (sup-ported exclusively by state sta-te funds) by $333,000 and adding this to other welfare wel-fare assistance which qualifies for federal matching ma-tching money on a 70-30 basis. Restricting grants in all other areas of public assistance and medical assistance as-sistance to the amounts budgeted for the next five months. Rampton . transferred $40,000 from his emergency emergen-cy fund to the administrative adminis-trative budget of the Family Fam-ily Service Division for use in control procedures. procedur-es. Richard P. Lindsay, division di-vision director, on Aug. 22 announced appointment of a seven-member task force to review welfare eligibilty guidline and recommend rec-ommend cost-cutting procedures. pro-cedures. He also announced announc-ed hiring of a data processing pro-cessing coordinator and staff to strengthen controls. con-trols. .Meeting With Doctors. Rampton is to meet Wednesday with State Medical Association and State Hospital Association Associa-tion representatives to discuss ways of keeping, under control utilization of medical services by recipients. re-cipients. The proposed "Gate- 14 way amendment t mit wholesale ,-evi W ' "a J. Rampton tolf(V bait Lake Rotary n -t Aug. 13. ' Cll4 He threw his fii ' port behind this am j ment which will be J ' Any recommended ch, es in the constituti would be discussed , Ih' voted upon by the U d lature. with a two-thi, '''I majority required for , sage, he said. J 1 These then would go'rie the electorate whiJoz would retain full po ',' to approve or defeat proposed changes, he sai The governor descriK;je Utah's Constitution as iiz "patchwork job devi( largely from the com tutions of other 8ta! which previously had bf' admitted, plus pvohj? S i'tior.s and mandates p'01 posed by a hostile JJ " Congress." ' ;;iu |