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Show Page B2 Thursday, May 1, 1986 Late tax revenue helps district meet '85-'86 budget projections by JIM SMEDLEY Record staff writer Late taxpayers may be the bane of school districts, but a recent payment pay-ment from these tardy citizens has helped the Park City School District meet its projected requirements in the 1985-86 budget. The district received a check for $462,000 from the county treasurer last week, enabling it to exceed its goal of collecting 85 percent of all assessed taxes. A smaller than expected enrollment enroll-ment and a drop in interest rates received on investments would still have left the 1985-86 revenues about $100,000 short. But funds carried over from the previous year, about $190,000 received last August from late taxes, allowed the district to meet budget requirements. As of April 30, collections reached about $6.2 million, 86.3 percent of collectable taxes. "Right now the collections are better bet-ter than I anticipated. For a while that 85 percent figure looked a bit liberal," said Bill Sampson, school district business administrator. "It would be a lot easier forming a budget is everyone paid their taxes. Now, it's a guessing game." Holocaust survivor to speak at education workshop May 3 An Israeli educator will visit Park City Saturday as part of her first trip to the United States. Margot Lif mann, who is also a survivor sur-vivor of a Nazi concentration camp, will be the keynote speaker for the Utah Council for the Humanities Spring Workshop May 3 at the Treasure Mountain Middle School. Lifmann, a faculty member of Haifa University, Israel, was born in Germany but escaped with her family fami-ly to Holland in 1933. Eventually, she and her family were captured and sent to concentration camps in Germany. Ger-many. Her father and sister died, but she and her mother survived their internment in Bergen from 1943 to 1945. Lifmann immigrated to Palestine after the war. She began her career in education while working on an Children can examine lives of unsung heroes' in books Rock stars and sports figures get a lot of press, but the people who keep life going in this country are unknown heroes, often even to their own children. Young Americans can easily grow up thinking work is just a way people get money to buy a few groceries or a Walkman cassette player. How many books for young people show the way ordinary Americans live and work? Not many. Other types of realistic literature are thriving. There are growing stocks of fiction about nontraditional families and about the different ethnic groups that make up this country. There are excellent history books about American industrial workers and their movements. But with very few exceptions, that's as close as authors of books for young people have come to portraying I M U -J J 1 1 l" I Park Record However, Sampson said some revenues were still below projections: projec-tions: there was $50,000 less than expected ex-pected from the state because the estimated 3 percent increase in local student enrollment for 1985-86 dwindled to 0.5 percent. In addition, an expected interest rate of 8.5 percent per-cent on invested funds shrank to 6.5 to 7 percent, costing the district another $50,000. "We received two big checks from the county treasurer in August 1985 and were able to carry over about $190,000 from last year," Sampson said. "That is certainly helping us now. It's my best guess, right now, that we will be able to carry over about $60,000 into next year. "Park City has the lowest collections collec-tions of any district in the state," he added. According to state projections, 22 of the 40 school districts will collect at least 96 percent of the taxes in 1986-87 and seven districts will collect col-lect more than 100 percent. Districts are able to top the 100 percent mark because they receive taxes due from past years. Only the Park City and Garfield school districts are projected pro-jected below 90 percent. Sampson said that the Park City district is lagging behind its collec Israeli kibbutz. She is currently completing a PhD on the Holocaust. Her visit is being financed by a mini-grant from the Utah Endowment Endow-ment for the Humanities, the University of Utah Middle East Center and the Park City School District. Her visit will begin May 3 at 9:45 a.m. at the Treasure Mountain Middle Mid-dle School where she will give the keynote address, " What Israelis Want American Students to Understand Unders-tand About Israel," and later lead a discussion on life in an Israeli kibbutz. kib-butz. The workshop," A Banquet of Culture," is designed for teachers of Social Studies, English and the Humanities. Five other guests, speaking on various aspects of the humanities, will also be featured during the May Teacher to by Betty Coudie working life in America. Below are listed books that provide pro-vide good reading about the folks next door. They have been recommended recom-mended by librarians, media specialists and teachers. They are about the ordinary unsung hereos that students want to know better. For grade kindergarten through fifth: A Chair for My Mother, by Vera Williams; Gilberlo and the Wind, by Marie Hall; The Hundred Penny Box, by Sharon Bell Mathis; Jar of Dreams, by Yoshiko Uchida; Meet Ramona Quimby and other books by Beverly Cleary; Miss aymard wants a ew .so n Place your ad today! 649-9014 tion rate of the past two school years. In the 1983-84 year it totaled $4,856,914 for 93.17 percent of collectable collec-table taxes and in the 1984-85 school year it received $5,481,572 for 90.54 percent. He said he doubted the district would reach 90 percent this fiscal year. "From an accounting standpoint the year ends June 30, but we can recognize revenue collected within a 60-day period after that. So in effect, we have until August 30," Sampson said. "Although there may be other collections, they will probably be very small as the summer is historically a slow period. We will need about another $400,000 to reach 90 percent." Sampson said creating a budget was his toughest chore because it was based on estimates supported by guesses based on estimates. He has to estimate not only the percentage percen-tage of taxes that will be collected and what the interest rate will be, but also he has to keep his fingers crossed that the state does not change its mind on the amount it allocates per pupil. "All you can do is take your best guess and that's what you call a budget." 3 workshop. For the benefil of the general public, Lifmann will repeat her keynote speech at 8 p.m. May 6 at the middle school. On May 8, Lifmann will present a lecture, "The Holocaust, Then and Now," at the Social Work Auditorium on the University of Utah campus. On May 9 she will participate par-ticipate in Gov. Norm Bangerter's proclamation in memory of the Holocaust at the State Capitol Building rotunda at noon. Fees for the May 3 activites are: $4 for the workshop alone for members of the humanities association, associa-tion, $9 including lunch; For non-members, non-members, the fees are $5 and $10 respectively. For more information, call Rebecca Rebec-ca Gardner, 649-4057. Parent 0 Nelson is Missing, by Harry Allard; Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry, by Mildred Taylor; The Snowy Day, by Ezra Jack Keats. For grade six and up: Blue Willow, by Doris Gates; Child of the Owl, by Lawrence Yep; Edith Jackson, , by Rosa Guy; The Lilith Summer,, by Hadley Irwin; ; ne Proud Pro-ud Summer r, by Marcia Hewitt and Clair Mackay; Soup,, by Robert Newton Peck; Taking Care of Terrific,, Ter-rific,, by Lois Lowery; Tough Tiffany, Tif-fany, by Belinda Hurmence; Up a Road Slowly, by Irene Hunt; Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls. d he's using the Park Record classifieds to find one. (Plus find a new frisbee.) Get results! """""U""" "l"IJI""1 '-LfllF'l' .1.111 ILJUH I 111 I JI Ui II Ml II I 1 II.' IIIIIJI. I I . I I 111""-' ' kil-i nil raMf's V f U H LJjI ' tI r'jyt-Li , X J .-i mwi ..I mi 1 . 1 y ' ' ' ' S1 Ps IVtO?! . h. 'Z I.e.' - 'r m Josselyn Neukom came out on top in the English section of the Sterling Scholar competition competi-tion held in Park City last week. . P.C. high school student wins scholar competition Park City High School had one winner and two runners up in the Sterling Scholar competition held in Park City last week. Josselyn Neukom won the English section of the competition and DeEite Hone and Katherine Willard were runners up in the music and foreign language sections respectively. respec-tively. The competition, sponsored by the Deseret News and KSL-TV Channel. 5, was held April 24 at Park City High School for seniors in 1-A and 2-A schools from the Northeast Region: Rich, Morgan, Summit, Wasatch, Duchesne, Uinta and Daggett Dag-gett counties. The awards ceremony was held that evening at the Prospector Pro-spector Convention Center. Competition Com-petition for 3-A and 4-A schools was held earlier in theyear. Neukom won a full scholarship to any college of her choice in Utah. However, the prize apparently will go unused. Neukom recently learned that she was accepted to Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., and she said she doubts she will turn down the chance to go to an Ivy League college. col-lege. Her acceptance there was the fulfillment of a dream. In an interview inter-view prior to the competition she said she had applied to two other universities, but in her heart she wanted to go to Dartmouth. "They have an anthropological site at Kenya and I spent a year in Kenya," Neukom said. "I was in a student exchange program and I lived liv-ed on an island Mom bassa and went to an all-girl Catholic school where I studied Swahili, African literature and took other high school Four-day school week? The Park City School District can save about $59,203 a year by changing chang-ing the class schedule from five to a four days a week, according to the Utah Education Association (UEA), "Schools will be critically underfunded under-funded next year and this is the best way we can find to save substantial sums of money with the least amount of damage to our children's education," said UEA President Betty Condie. She said she wishes such a change was not necessary, but cost-cutting alternatives such as eliminating kindergarten or the 12th grade are not acceptable. Gov. Norm Bangerter and legislators asked the UEA to propose pro-pose ways of trimming programs and restructuring schools and Con-die Con-die said the four-day week is the most promising of them all. Thirty-six school districts in Colorado Col-orado have adopted the four-day week and are realizing substantial savings in heating, electricity, busing bus-ing and substitute teachers, according accor-ding to Condie. She added that a Colorado Col-orado State University study showed that more than 90 percent of the students, parents and teachers favored a four-day schedule over the five-day week. Schools on the four-day week lengthen the teaching day so that students get the same amount of class time as those who attend class five days a week. Condie said the Colorado study said achievement scores of students on the shorter week compare favorably with those on the traditional schedule. "Utah schools will be in deep financial trouble next year and I urge boards of education and superintendents to study this plan closely," Condie said. "It could be one of the best things they can do for their schools at this time." Park City School Superintendent Tony Mitchell said he was familiar with the concept of the four-day week. He said the four-day week is attractive, as it would be to the rest of working America. But he is adopting adop-ting a "wait and see" attitude before making any specific proposals. 1 '-J - - jr 3 ... n't DeEtte Hone was runner-up runner-up in the music category. classes. "Winning the competition feels wonderful. It's great," she added. "However, it's unfortunate that some of the other Park City people didn't win, because I'm sure they were equally as qualified as the other winners." Park City was represented in nine of the 12 scholarship categories. As part of the contest, students were required re-quired to complete a portfolio showing show-ing accomplishments and awards which they had won. The students were judged on their portfolios and then participated in 20-minute interviews inter-views about their respective fields. Points were awarded for scholar- Students raise $5,000 for American Heart Association Students at Parley's Park Elementary School collected $5,300 for the American Heart Association when they participated in the "Jump for Heart" program April 11, according to program coordinator and physical education teacher Debbie Aillet. About 200 students jumped rope in teams for combined times of up to three hours. "The kids had fun. They realized they were helping others and jumping for the health of it," Aillet said. "Before they participated in the jumping, the students went around and collected pledges from businesses and individuals for each minute their team jumped." Aillet said about 36 parents volunteered their time to twirl ropes and clock the minutes the kids spent jumping. Kindergarteners-to-be to visit elementary school The kindergarten visitation for students who will be 5 years old on or before Sept. 1 will be held May 8. Students whose last names begin with letters A through M are scheduled for 9 to 11 a.m. Students whose last names begin with letters N through Z are slated for 1 to 3 p.m. Parley's Park Elementary School Principal Linda Singer said interested parents can call 649-9142 and the school will send a packet of registration material to them. Coors offers scholarships for children of veterans The Adolph Coors Co. has announced it will accept applications for the Veterans' Memorial Scholarship Fund, which provides more than $500,000 to the sons and daughters of American veterans. The company will award a minimum of 100 scholarships with a maximum value of $5,000. To be eligible, students must have completed at least one year of college, have a cumulative grade point average of at least 2.75 on a 4.0 scale and be under 22 years of age as of July 1 , 1986. Applicants must be dependents of honorably discharged American service personnel or dependents of American service personnel killed in action, missing miss-ing in action or who have died in the line of duty. Applications can be obtained by calling the local Coors distributor (M&M, Salt Lake City, 972-4255) or by writing Coors Veterans' Memorial Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 7529, Wheeling, 111., 60090 or calling toll-free 1-800-4926-677. University seminar to focus on Montessori approach Dr. Cheryl Wright, director of the University of Utah Child and Family Developemnt Center, will deliver the keynote address May 3 at a seminar on child developemnt issues and the Montessori approach to education. The morning session of the seminar will be held at the Montessori School at 502 Third Ave., Salt Lake City. For more information, call the school at 355-6111. Neal Palumbo Katherine Willard was runner-up in foreign languages. ship, leadership and citizenship. Judges were also instructed to consider con-sider character. "No scholar shall be nominated who fails to demonstrate high moral standards, habits and attitudes or who fails to serve associates within the school and community," the guidelines said. Other Park City students who participated par-ticipated in the competition and their categories are: Scott Tatum, mathematics; Melanie Mitchell, social science; Tom Meuzelaar, science; Tracy Stottern, homemak-ing; homemak-ing; Roberta Lanning, business education; and Jennifer Klason, general scholarship. |