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Show TIMES, April 15, 1976 LEADER-GARLAN- .4 ct From Transportation JD LKWs A tax most, taxpayers may think has become extinct may be alive and well in the Box Elder School District. Superintendent J.C. Haws recently announced to board members that a .9 mill levy enacted last year to pay transportation costs not reimbursed by the state can be cut back. "We think that levy can be cut," he said, "if the board is willing not to increase what we're doing today and more if the board is willing to cut." No figure was mentioned in the board meeting in which the possible tax cut was aired. But, the superintendent said later "I'd like to see it cut in half." The .9 mill levy raises approximately $80,000 annually. There is "just about $40,000 or $50,000" that will be needed from the mill levy to fund five existing elementary school bus routes for which the state legislature provides no money. The routes are all inside the 1.5 mile limit set by the legislature for funding. It costs the district approximately $13,000 annually to fund the routes. The district also raises about $19,125 for "payment in lieu of transportation" which is paid to parents of students who live in such areas as Grouse Creek and Park Valley. The district is not reimbursed on about $2,500 of that amount. The portion of a mill levy is also used to finance one of the two bus garages operated in the district. Two are operated because of the split geography of the county. The state will only fund one. Supt. Haws said the tax cut is one of a number of decisions that will have to be made by the board prior to formulating a budget in June for the next fiscal year. A public hearing will be held April 28 at 7 p.m. in the Box Elder high school choral room to allow the public to have input into the budget before it is formalized. Supt. Haws said the various options will be dis gTTBTVyTB BIB cussed for the public and they will be allowed to express their priorities. The mill levy was enacted one year ago to help the district reduce a nagging deficit. In addition, the board made various cuts such as elimination of night activity runs. Restoration of some of these cuts would mean more of the .9 mills would have to be maintained. In other school board action, the Laidlaw English program for elementary schools was adopted by the board. This program goes back to more of the basic things you and I learned," said Morgan Hawkes, administrator of curriculum for the district. He said 30 of Utah's school districts are using the textbook for the program. The program was adopted on a 1 vote with member Winston Benson voting no. Benson said he wanted to take more time to review the gram from kindergarten to high school. One problem is the "terminology" used in the traditional versus the structural approaches. But Hawkes said the dis- trict will go after a compre- hensive program. - In other action the board: that high school graduations will be held May 28 at Box Elder Board and Bear River. members Arnold Thompson and Wallace Christensen will pass out diplomas at is Box Elder with mernber Stokes doing the honors at Bear River. -- hired Ann Gibbons, Snowville teacher; Richard Stokes, Bear River junior high custodian; and Michael Mounts, Bear River high school custodian. De-lor- approved sabbatical leave for Vernon Bingham, a Spanish teacher at Box Elder high and Richard . .NEW CHEER LEADERS-Si- x new cheer leaders were named recently at Bear River high school. Pictured above are (1 to r front) Tami Rogers, Kristi Lish, Suzanne Simmons, (back row 1 to r) Jamie Coombs, Patti Brough, and Cindy Scout. Felt. Swisses Migje (yjotf Hawkes said English for junior and senior school have not yet selected. He said difficulty is in selecting for a comprehensive texts high been one texts pro A legal suit filed by a Garland man against the Box Elder County School District was dismissed Tuesday by District Court Judge VeNoy Christoffersen. Elden Fuller, represent- . Woodbury said charged for the ing himself, had asked the court to issue a permanent restraining order against "free" public education fee is a Driver's ...GO ON A money was provided by the state legislature to begin a free textbook policy. Woodbury recited the fees paid by one of Fuller's sons while in high school but said they didn't constitute tuition. "We have never denied a high school education to any student according to his abil- -' ity to pay," Woodbury testified. "We attempt to get these fees, but we don't force them." WV' B B TB'fl 88BBBB8B8BB IM 885888886 5 8 B'fl SV BW8WoTToTTTnrra 1 - Jl VALUES Jo! V . 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Anyone who plays a musical instrument is welcome to join the group. Plans call for the band to present a number of summer concerts as well as participating in various bicentennial functions. 8 8 'fl"8"5'fl'B a 5 5 : make the to necessary Besides the tuition question Fuller, in his suit, had charged the school board with abuses in various areas ranging from the recent conflict of interest fuss to how the board spends its money. But the judge, early in the case.ruled that the only question was "Is there a tuition charged?" He sustained a number of objections when Fuller attempted to move to one of the other issues. the school district prohibiting it from charging "tuition." Fuller contended that courts have ruled that must be provided to students through the twelth grade and to those who have not completed high school. The Garland man put Bear River high school principal Darwin Woodbury on the stand as well as Supt. J.C. 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