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Show JORDAN BOARD NOTES INCREASE JNJUDGET New Board Member Named A budget of nearly three million mil-lion dollars and appointment of a new member of the Board of Education were principal items of 'business completed at a special spec-ial meeting of the Jordan School District Board held Thursday evening, June 28. Benton Boyd, general superintendent superin-tendent of the Lark and U. S. Mines, United States Smelting Refining and Mining Co., at Jark was appointed to fill the vacancy left by resignation of Rex T. Tripp, president of the board. The newly approved budget for the 1956-57 school year total- ed $2,945,625, just $290,328 above the past years budget. 1 The section of school operations opera-tions that showed the largest amount of the budget increase was instruction with salaries of teachers and principals taking the greatest chunk. A breakdown of estimated expenditures ex-penditures for the coming year, with last year's budget in parenthesis, par-enthesis, is: General control, $70,550 ($Cn,-150); ($Cn,-150); instruction, including salaries sal-aries of instruction staff, $2,C62, 400 ($l,6f8,800); auxiliary agencies, agen-cies, including nurses, lunches and transportation, $180,500 ($153,500); operation of school plants, $231,000 ($199,800); maintenance main-tenance of school plants, $140,000 ($125,000); fixed charges, $150,000 ($140,000); debt service, an item that dropped in cost, $20,000 ($40,000), and capital outlay, also reduced, $79,275 ($263,947). Mr. Tripp resigned from the board effective July 1, 1956. His term of office expires January i, rjj. iteason lor nis resigna-I resigna-I tion was the recent sale of his firm, Bingham Mercantile Co. in Bingham. He has moved out of the district. Mr. Boyd has been general superintendent of the two mines at Lark since 1952. He has resided re-sided in Utah 20 years,-is a na- - tive of Pennsylvania and has been in mining work many years. He resides in Lark with his wife and three sons. At a meeting of the school board held this last Monday, low bids totaling $624,435 won the job of constructing the new Greenfield Village elementary school for Jordan School District. At the same meeting, board members reorganized and selected select-ed a name for the new elementary elemen-tary school. The reorganization became necessary when Mr Tripp resigned. Dr. J. O. Jones, Midvale physician, phy-sician, was elected president during dur-ing Monday's reorganization. Vice president will be Leonard C. Eeckstead, distributor of Sinclair Sin-clair Refining Co. products in south Salt Lake County, and first counselor in West Jordan Stake Presidency, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The new school name, selected from a number submitted by residents re-sidents of the Greenfield Village area, will be Mountview Elementary Ele-mentary School. Sealed bids on the Mountview School were opened at a special meeting of the board Monday afternoon at 3 p.m. to select contractors con-tractors to construct the 13-room building at approximately 7000 1650 East. General contractor vill be Frederickson Builders on their low bid of $519,236. Standard Plumbing and Heating Co. won the contract for plumbing, heating heat-ing and ventilating on a bid oi $8o,229, and Thompson Electric Co. will wire the structure for $19,920. After discussing the bids and studying alternates proposed by bidders, the board voted to accept ac-cept the low bids. Construction of the new structure must be completed, according to contract terms, within 300 days from the date of bid acceptance. |