Show i TAXPAYERS AND ED BOARD MEEF MEET MEE F ty i i r V. W E E. of Roosevelt i n T r t Member Of Tho The Th School Board I Ii In f f- f r V Presents Interesting Figures Defense of The Thc Board i. i n l The Duchesne County Jers ers association met in the court court- Chouse house house here Monday afternoon on a i at e. e at call can Issued by John P P. Madsen chairman of the Reports were read by R R. R E E. E Miller Miller Mil Ml ler ter My Myton ton chairman of the com con delegated to wait upon th the legislature and other st state te bodies bodle Mr Miller explained that many c ol of Si the requests of the committee committe were already being considered by b the legislature and that from conversations conversations con cor with members of other othe state boards and commissions h he was of the opinion that little ma may maybe maybE bE be gained in the way of tax relief relic other than that which may be given given en through legislative action A A. A E. E Edwards My Myton ton reported reporter for the committee that was delegated delegated dele dele- gated to procure and compare th the budgets of neighboring counties He reported that he had secures secured budgets from only two of th the counties solicited these being Emery Emery Em Em- f ery cry and Sanpete counties The Th budgets of these counties were read read before the meeting A resolution offered by L. L A A. Hollenbeck requesting the School I Board to use every possible effort to curtail expenses of that body was adopted at the meeting Mr Mr Hollenbeck said the taxpayers of the ers appreciated efforts board as alread ahead manifested but that he was of the opinion that still further reduction of expenses could t be made by way of cutting salaries The school boards board's side was ably abt abr ab- ab r My- My t ly IY defended by Floyd Lamb of Myton My- My f 9 ton and W W. E. E of Roosevelt Roose t velt Mr read figures before be be- fore tore the meeting showing that the boards board's boards board's bonded debt had been reduced reduced reduced re re- re- re from approximately in 1926 to approximately 95 95 In Ion 1933 He also demonstrated 95 1 ed cd that salaries and other expenses ses sea had been cut approximately fifty per cent during the same period In closing his remarks Mr Wis Wis- combe declared I defy any man manor manor or group of men to show that they have made as good or more ec economical ee- ee onon cal use of county funds entrusted entrusted en en- trusted to their care or any bus business busi- busi I en-I iness i- i 1 ness man or farmer to show where they have gradually relieved them themselves themselves themselves selves of a debt burden and that done under these times of depres depres- sion Mr said that the school board accepted the resolution resolution resolution tion of Mr Hollenbeck but that he thought It unfair to ride the J school board about reducing expenditures exp expenditures ex ex- p when the board boar l had made far better progress in the way of tax burden relief than had other departments of the county Frank Connor addressed the meeting and made a plea that the taxpayers do not handicap the ther r scho school l board by further cutting the tax mills as the schools of Duchesne Duchesne Duchesne Du Du- Du- Du chesne county were now foregoing many opportunities for for learning and child welfare that were con con- n a part of the curriculum of the r in inmany many other counties i state It was explained that Duchesne J county schools received from the state equalization fund an amount almost twice that of the amount j which Is derived from direct county county coun coup for the support of the ty taxes Duchesne county school system and that if Duchesne county cuts direct on school its taxes that a like cut or probably would be the result in state t more i funds available to o this county It ItIs Is through this state equalization fund that Duchesne county gets getsI benefits whatever from funds 9 t I 7 any f r derived from railroads mining Industries industries indus- indus manufacturers and smelting of ot the state of other parts tries r which Duchesne county is and of ot f Y practically void It was brought out that the Duchesne Duchesne Du Du- chesne county direct tax funds h taxes asses asses- derived from direct ments In Duchesne ne county would be sufficient to fun run the schools Of f the e county for a period of three K months of ot the year |