Show Bond election set date delayed for public ic Voters will have time to think about it as the Uintah School District set the date for a 17 million bond election for Feb The bond resolution was approved by bythe bythe the hoard bOard at their meeting Thursday at West Junior High School The 17 million bond will finance a new high school in the Ashley Valley and a seat seat auditorium for West Junior High and Todd Elementary on the westside of the county The reason the the board decided to d delay lay laythe the bond election until next year is to get all the information concerning the bond to The board feels that that the 15 student student high school proposed ed by the bond will in inthe inthe the long run best satisfy the crowded con con- in the school district The boards board's approval of the bond came at nearly the same time that Utah State Assistant Attorney General Jack L Crellin gives his opinion on a Senate bill bilI regulating the allotment of funds from the Community Impact Board to the school district The district has applied for 43 million for a new high school from the impact board and hAs been waiting for the at- at attorney's attorney's torney's opinion on the law According to district officials the opi- opi opinion opinion nion isn't favorable Crellin who was appointed by the at- at attorney attorney torney general to make an opinion on the matter quotes Senate Bill No 2 which says that in determining eligibility for loan and grants the Community Impact Board should consider the borrowing capacity of the subdivision in this case school district and willingness to sell bonds and its current and authorized indebtedness IUs It is apparent that the willingness of the school schol board m members on one hand and the voters in the school district on theother the theother other have not been in agreement with respect to the construction of ne new school facilities Crellin says referring to the districts district's past two bond defeats at the polls The question is not whether the failure of the school district to approve bonded indebtedness is reasonable but whether the proposed education project could reasonably have been funded by any of a number of financing methods in In- In Including eluding bonded indebtedness says the attorneys attorney's opinion School district officials contend that they have tried the Ule four methods of finan- finan financing financing cing mentioned in the Senate bill bon bon- bonding bonding ding annual budgeting capital budgeting and special assessments and they will ask the Community Impact Board for the funds at the impact boards board's next meeting Oct 7 |