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Show School Board Schedules Election on April 3 Members of the Grand District Board of Education Ed-ucation met in regular session Monday evening and voted to ask the voters of Grand County for a 5 mill voted leeway lee-way for the next three years to eliminate the deficit accrued by the district in the past two years. The deficit was caused, caus-ed, first of all by a decrease in the valua-tion valua-tion of the County two years ago and the problems pro-blems were multiplied this year with the announcement an-nouncement by President Presi-dent Richard M. Nixon that most of the district's dis-trict's funding under Public Law 874 would be curtailed. This fund provides monies for schools in districts that have large numbers of students whose parents either work on federal lands or whose parents are employed by the federal government. In Grand District, this has amounted to over S100 thousand per year. School Board President Presi-dent Sam Taylor stated that the special election has been set for Tuesday. Tues-day. April 3. In attendance at the meeting were Jack Olson, Ol-son, executive director of the Utah Taxpayers Association of Salt Lake City, and Don Gilliam, tax consultant for El Paso Natural Gas Co., El Paso, Texas. These men discussed the budget bud-get in detail with the members of the board. |
