Washington County News | 1931-04-02 | Page 2 | Tax Delay in Utah may Cut School Fund

TAX DELAY IN UTAH MAY CUT SCHOOL FUND State officials said Saturday that on account- of the unusual percentage per-centage of delinquencies in taxes this year in some counties, the revenue actually made available to the state district school fund may amount to perhaps only $23 per capita of school population of each district, instead of the $25 per capita required by law. There was available for the state district school fund in the state treasury Saturday, $1,378,759, it was reported in the office of A. E. Christensen, state treasurer. There has already been distributed to the schools $12.88 per capita. With a school population of 147,292, an additional $10 per capita would require $1,472,920 in the .fund. The distribution will be made as soon as possible after the county treasurers have forwarded their tax collections for March, which will be early in April. Some of the school districts are urging that the distribution be made at once, tout if that were done the amount received by them would be only slightly in excess of $9 per capita, it was pointed out by Dr. C. N. Jensen, state superintendent su-perintendent of public instruction.