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Show Building problems, fund requests taken up at school board meet A varied program of business in connection with the building of Springville's and Payson's new high schools, consideration of requests for funds for various projects and for personnel to attend conventions and workshops work-shops and numerous other items j were on the business agenda, when the Nebo School Board of Education met Monday evening even-ing of last week. Supt. Stansfield read a letter from Ashworth Architects asking ask-ing the board to select the interior in-terior and exterior brick in the two new high schools. The board decided to use the lightest color for the interior of the two schools and authorized President Presi-dent Sorensen, the superintendent, superintend-ent, Leo A. Crandall and Raymond Ray-mond Johnson to select the color ' of the exterior brick the next day during the daylight hours. Supt. Stansfield reported on the progress of the two new buildings and showed pictures of the construction to date. He also reported that application . would be made to the State De partment of Public Instruction for NDEA Title III Funds on all equipment which would qualify under the National Defense Education Ed-ucation Act. 1 The board accepted the low G.M.C. Sales and Service of Provo, for one 1966 G.M.C. 48 passenger school bus with a Superior bus body for $4,823.90 and two 1966 G.M.C. 66 pas-i pas-i senger school busses with Su- ! perior bus bodies for $12,451.10. : Supt. Stansfield presented re- ' suits of a School Supplies Cost Study made covering the last four years and presented a tabulation of the school supply bids for the 1966-67 school year. A motion was made by Mr. i Raymond C. Johnson, seconded ; i by Leo A. Crandall, that the ; , supply bids be accepted on the basis of quality and price. '; Supt. Stansfield presented proposed rules and regulations j 1 ' governing salary lanes for teachers for board approval. The board instructed him to de-; de-; !;' terniine the amount of money j , ; available for changes in the ba- j sic salary schedule on the basis 1: of revised rules and regulations j governing the salary schedule lanes. ! : Supt. Stansfield reported about two-thirds of the profes-; profes-; !, sional personnel needed to re-"'. re-"'. place those leaving the District or retiring, had already been I; hired for next year. .,; Art Given $150 ' j! ; ! The superintendent presented , ; requests from Omar M. Hansen ' president of the Springville Art Association, and Mark A. Nel-' Nel-' i son, treasurer of the Utah State Junior Livestock Show, Spanish Span-ish Fork, for consideration in ! meeting the expenses of each : ! i ; of the two organizations. A mo- i tion was made by Leo A. Cran dall, seconded by Mark B. An-i An-i ' derson that the board approve the appropriation of $150 for each of the two organizations, as was budgeted in previous years. A group of officials from cities cit-ies in the district including Ashley Graham of Springville, ' met with the board in the in terest of summer recreation. President Sorensen and the superintendent explained to the group that last year in ordei to maintain a relatively constant con-stant tax levy for schools, the board negated the .75 mill levy for recreation and various other oth-er summer programs. This was necessitated by action taker by the State Legislature. Also the new Tort Liability law becoming be-coming effective on July 1, 1 . 1 1966, has made it necessary for the board to levy up to Jb mill for this purpose. The superintendent superin-tendent pointed out that be- i cause the board was not amen able to raising the total tax i levy for schools and wished to keep it relatively constant, i there may not be funds available avail-able for the recreational program pro-gram during the 1966-67 school year. Should the cost of the effects of the Tort Liability! law be less than the revenue from the J5 mill, the board could reduce it and levy the difference under the section of the law which permits the recreational levy. In view of these circumstances and the possibility of reduced funds, the board wated to alert the three cities of the possibility! of no funds to help with the recreational programs this summer. Each member of the group expressed concern for the summer recreational program pro-gram if the funds were not forthcoming. Fund requests Supt. Stansfield presented a letter from Darld J. Long, Executive Ex-ecutive Secretary of the Utah School Boards Association, requesting re-questing the board provide in its 1966-67 budget, $1812 for dues as assessed by the Utah School Boards Association. A motion was made by Leo A. Crandall, seconded by Raymond C. Johnson, that one-half the requested amount, or $906 be placed in the budget to meet this assessment. The Supt. presented a request re-quest from the State Department Depart-ment of Public Instruction that there be provided in the 1966-67 1966-67 budget an amount not to exceed 25 cents per pupil to meet the annual Educational TV assessment to local districts. dis-tricts. A motion was made by Leo A. Crandall, seconded by Raymond C. Johnson, that even though the Society of Superintendents and the State Board of Education support such action, the Nebo School District Board of Education does not care to go along with this action to make provision for this annual TV assessment in its 1966-67 budget. Supt. Stansfield presented a letter to the board requesting that he, as president-elect of the Utah Society of Superintendents, Superin-tendents, attend the 20th annual an-nual conference of presidents and presidents-elect of state associations of school administrators admin-istrators in Chicago April 29-May 29-May 1. A motion was made by Leo A. Crandall, seconded by Mark B. Anderson, authorizing authoriz-ing the Superintendent to attend at-tend the conference. The Supt. also presented a request from James Dunn to attend the International Reading Read-ing Association Workshop in Dallas, Texas and a request from Phillip Argyle to attend j a special Audio-Visual Work- shop on the West coast. He stated that costs would be paid through Title I funds. A motion was made by Leo A. Crandall, seconded by Mark B. Anderson, authorizing the men to attend their respective workshops. Supt. Stansfield stated that he had received a letter from the State Department of Public Instruction asking that school children canvass for funds to , send the Utah Symphony Or-. Or-. chestra to Greece and other places abroad. The board in-: in-: structed President Sorensen to i write an answer to the request giving the board's view and . reasons why it feels children j of Nebo District should not r canvass for funds. C. J. Wendell, clerk, pre-i pre-i sented a letter to the board i from Dr. Charles W. Foster, Executive Secretary, Associa- tion of School Business Offi-, Offi-, cials of the U.S. and Canada, notifying him of his continued I appointment to the Nominat- ing Committee of the Associ- ation. The clerk received the boards permission to accept : the appointment. |