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Show New Davis County School District budget announced department officials identified $5 million worth of ends. Funding was cut to $1.5 million. The district felt two million dollars were needed for textbooks, but the tentative budget funded this at a much lower level. Additional counselors are needed at all high schools and junior highs. The budget does not address this need. Other areas that are under-funded include the gifted and talented program, pro-gram, field trip allotments and hazardous busing. The bulk of the money spent by the school district goes for employees salaries, retirement programs pro-grams and insurance benefits. School district officials are still negotiating with the Davis Edu cation Association (DEA) and with the classified employees associations associa-tions regarding cost of living and other salary increases for the 1991-92 1991-92 school year. Joel Briscoe, President Presi-dent of the DEA, said, "we could probably sell a 3.2 percent increase to teachers. They wouldn't like it, but it is comparable with salary increases in-creases along the Wasatch Front and with the increase in state fun- J ding for the WPU (Weighted Pupil I Unit)." The WPU is the formula that the state uses for funding school districts. Briscoe stated, "we appreciate the board's willingness to work with the teachers. It is a difficult situation especially when elected officials feel they have to raise property taxes." By DON ETA GATHERUM Staff Writer LAYTON The cost of educating the thousands of students enrolled in Davis County schools will be $140,886,900 for the coming com-ing year. This amount was approved approv-ed last Tuesday evening as the tentative ten-tative uniform school district budget for fiscal year 1991-92. A public hearing will be held on August 6, 1991 so that citizens can study the budget and give input to school officials before final action is taken. Copies of the tentative budget are available at the school district office in Farming ton. In order to balance this budget 1 that district officials call "bare boned", the district is proposing a two mill tax levy increase for Davis County property owners. If a home is valued at $80,000, a one mill tax increase would be $10.68 per year or $21.36 per year for the proposed two mill increase. The reason for the mill levy increase in-crease is to compensate for revenues lost through federal aid to education cut-backs. While a budget of nearly $28 million appears to be extremely large, district officials note many programs where there is critical under-funding for needed school programs. For example, in the basic buildings and grounds up-keep area, the district buildings and grounds |