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Show Serving East Juab County - A Nice Place Volume 102 No 36 September www.nephitimesnews.com To Live! Single Copy Price S. 2001 j Homecoming week at Juab High vs School. Wasp Football ,3-South Summit, 3 - 0, Friday at 7 p.m. 0, This week is Homecoming Week at Juab High School Homecoming activities include the following: Wednesday, September 8th fill ' ji' ' , : I .tev. ' - . sT.. 'I .- ' 1 t 4 r . , f v v ,i 5:30 p.m. Community Barbeque 7:00 p.m. Pep Rally ; Thursday, September 9th I, 7:00 p.m. Volleyball game South Summit at Juab yj Friday, September 10th :Vr;( I LT W I r.V.; Vy A A 4 3:30 p.m. FFA Dutch Oven 1 , A 'V ' J. 'v L' Pt r4VI gN-- , rt V. r , J 3 $- ' 4:00 p.m. Homecoming parade I o 1' Cook-Of- - f Main Street 6:00 p.m. FFA Tailgate Party, Juab High ,? H 7:00 p.m. Juab High School Football, Juab vs South Summit Saturday, September 11th DEEP IN ARTISTIC CONCENTRATION Alyssa Wood concentrates while she paints the window at Smith Auto for Homecoming Week. The window represents the Sophomore Class and encourages Juab to Beat the Wildcats! Juab plays South Summit on Friday Photo: Rebecca Dopp for homecoming, 7:00 p.rn. 9:00 p.m. Homecoming Dance Hearing held to explain changes, not increase, in Juab School District tax rate were district employees who were there not to ask questions but, if Correspondent needed, to answer them. Leon Pexton, board president Just three people attended a public hearing on a proposed said the reason for the hearing, tax increase that was not a tax basically, was that the district increase at all. dropped the judgment recovery In fact, according to the inforlevy that was imposed in the past mation presented at the hearing to pay for those commercial properties who protested the tax they by Juab School District Darin Clark, the paid and added the reading hearing was being held, by law, program. not really because there was an That is why we are here toincrease, but because there was night, Pexton said. If we drop a change. one and add one, by law we have This is indicated by the last to have a hearing. As for judgment recovery, in line in the second paragraph of the ad that states that this is the past, courts and the state tax a negative .5 percent revenue commission adjusted levels which increase for the district, said meant the district had to pay back some of the tax collected in previClark. Two of those in attendance ous years. Since it was difficult to Myrna Trauntvein By Times-New- s Clerk-Treasure- r, K-- 3 had been mistakenly reported in state new papers that the district was choosing the higher ofthe two allow ed rates but that was not the repay money which was already spent, entities were allowed to collect a judgment recovery levy to repay the money to the commercial property tax protesters. We did not pay out enough case. In 2003, the M&O Basic State warrants last year to justify a Supported rate was 0.001825, continued levy, said Clark. the voted board leeway was The governor's Kindergarten 0.000121, special transportation was 0.000081, recreation through third grade reading proto was added tax the rate, was 0.000289, tort liability gram was 0.000105, debt service was said Kirk Wright, superintendent. 0.002329, capital outlay was If the school w ill levy a tax for 0.001512, 10 percent of basic the program, he said, then the was 0.000G32, judgment recovery was 0.000088 for a total rate of state will match that levy. Matching levies from last year, 0.007312. In 2001, the M&O Basic State said Clark, would show' the lower used this year. rate being Supported rate is 0.001800, the In fact, said Wright, the district voted board leeway is 0.000400, determined to go with the lower special transportation is 0.000 100, tax levy rate allowed by law. It recreation is 0.000298, tort li Schools popping at the seams will ability is 0.000100, debt service is 0.00175G, capital outlay is 0.002199, 10 percent of basic is 0.000599, there is no judgment readrecovery levy, and the ing program rate of 0.00005G was added for a total rate of K-- 3 0.007299. The average rate for the last ten years has been 0.007574, said Clark. In the 2 1 years I have been on the board, said Pexton. it has been policy to maintain levies as evenly as we can. We have always tried to keep our rate as stable as possible. We are respectful of people and of their pocketbooks. In fact, said Clark, this years See Tax on page 8 have to wait for remodeling That remodeling, however, would reduce the number of classrooms on line, property tax receipts should also increase. If taxes paid by two. by the electric generation power Janet Ware, principal at the company increase the county tax Several remodeling proposals have been considered for Nephi school, said she has a large enroll- - base as much as is anticipated, Elementary and for Mona El- ment this year and more room is said Pexton, then the school She was grateful for the trict may have some needed funds ementary Schools but nothing has been decided. modular additions to the school to use for buildings, We have no time-line- , because they made it possible One thing in our benefit, said period, said Leon Pexton, school board to provide more needed class- - Pexton, is that the projected rooms. president. population growth has not in- Mona is also its creased as much as was predicted Several proposals had been discussed, said Superintendent facilities. This year there are 10 years ago. Kirk Wright, but nothing had fewer students than last year In addition, he said, the been decided. ofthe Star Valley School struction of the new high school Nephi Elementary was built at Rocky Ridge, a private school had given room for the school and added to under three differwhich opened just this fall. populations to be shifted to allow ent educational philosophies said Nevertheless, Mona continues some room for more students on Pexton. The first portion was to grow and bring new students the elementary level, built in 1954. to the school. Still, more than 635 students The architect said that we attend Nephi Elementary in Nephi Elementary was centrally located, a plus for the needed anotherelementary school grades Kindergarten through in Nephi, said Delanie Hatha- - fourth grades. While the building communitys young students. The building did need some way, board member. is near capacity, it now houses MORE ROOM Nephi Elementary School will have to be reWhen PacifiCorp brings the fewer grades than it was first NEEDS remodeling so that space inside modeled in the near future to accommodate more students. This year 635 the building could be better used. new Current Creek Power Plant designed to accommodate. students attend NES K through 4th grade. By Times-New- Myrna Trauntvein s Correspondent dis-neede- out-growin- g con-becau- $ k f I W sS I v A " Jv, 'W i vt ' |