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Show 4 Operatiif Badge! ChOO Explains Where Your Tax Dollar Invested in Education Is Spent Here's How Your School Tax Dollar Is Split Lincoln School Addition Is Progressing Nicely Plant Mainteoanc 2.7c Over Half of Every Dollar Goes for Student Instruction, Balance for Other Costs The question uppermost in the taxpayers mind these day9 What do we get for our tax dollar? To answer that question, and offer an explanation, the administrative staff of the Box Elder County School district is presenting herewith a complete financial report, accountmillion dollars collecing for the more than one and ted in taxes and spent during the last fiscal year, ending June 30, 1954. is one-ha- lf gest single business. This can be realized when you take a look at the appraised assets of the district which reaches the whopping total of $4,726,146.36. Breaking it down on a per capita basis for the twenty thousand people in the district, that gives G-- I every man, woman and child a $236.22 interest in the physical school system. On the other hand, liabilities, which includes all bonded indebtedness, total $801,195.82 or $40.04 per capita. Subtracting liabilities from assets, the net worth of the school system is $196.18 per individual, that's nearly four milion dollars Remodeling Work On Lincoln School for a net worth total. . . . will include replacing windows in old building, installing a new roof, as well as buildOn the next page of this issue new School room. in offices will be located the can be found a complete finaning a fine new dual purpose activities addition. Total cost of the new wing is $114,750, the remodeling project on the old struccial statement for the last fiscal ture $13,550. V. J. Wadman is the general contractor. year of operation and total payments made to firms and individ7 Box Elder JOURNAL uals during the year when they exceeded $25.00. Brigham City, Utah With each name and amount is a keyed letter which explains Friday, August 27, 1954 what the expenditure was for, based on the general accounting breakdown. For example, the Instruction of Students letter A represents a charge Elder County district more. . . . takes slightly over half of the tax dollar you invest in Box wired for electric lighting along Additional Building general control and adagainst with other major improvements schools. Other major items are school lunch, plant operation, capital outlay and debt of the educational ministration, B is for instrucOperation Given Is Planned to Fill to the extent of $200,000 since service with all other functions adding up to 12.3 cents. system of the county is the lar- - tion, and so on through the ten 1945 Future School Needs general ledger headings. An inThese buildings and improveThe aims and ideals of a good dex to the key explains briefly Back Job Is the on ments have been paid for from educational Superintendent system were exwhat is included. Increasing building costs and the proceeds of two bond issues, pressed very this proconstruction This system of accounting emergency one in 1945 for $000,000 and one week by Kenneth adquately E. Weight, supa been have makes it possible for the tax prob major grams for from in and 1950 $500,000, erintendent of the Box Elder lem with the board of education payer to determine all principal current tax levies to the extent County School district, who has expenditures made by the school during the past nine years when of $800,000. just returned from a two month district during the past year, to the present modernization proconsidered. was first Contributions From whom paid and for what purpose. gram Here are the costs on major tour of Europe. education all records, In 1945 the board of education school construction programs, State Keep making allkeeping Superintendent Weights statecoutracts with state Federal, modernfor a few the within program projected past ment follows: completed and federal agencies, adopting Costs at Minimum izing its school plants, and for years: A federal E. the standard for To be of a citizen the United buildings Thatcher school $24,145.21 providing additional Born in the depression days, meals. is States of most one the 73 priceas it then seemed necessary. school 42,228 Portage This standard provides for two the school lunch program has less possessions a human being . 507,311.17 This program , called for fur- Central school of ounces of protein, meaa come from that In long way can the have world in ab today. Garland school 232,661.95 nishing electric lights a cup of fruit or vegetables or a on financed To to be ger being beginning, and was help boys schools where electricity girls Bear River High school 927,072.69 a cooperative basis by school pa- combination of both, one or more Total 1,733,419.25 better citizens in the community available, for the replacing of trons, funds from the state and slices of bread and butter and in which they live is the chief defective floors, for improvef pint of Grade A pasteur federal to Add this Eduproof government along with our schools. improvement objective ments in heating and ventilating ized milk, where available, the commodities. now construction under it cation surplus and two additional grams implies many things; systems To understand only kind that can be served. (Editors Note in the advanced planning should give a person the facts During the school year 1953 54, The buildings which were included and of transporreal the Grade where milk is omitted problem the 26 schools, prepared 533,770 A stages and the total goes well about his world; it should inin the program. tation of students to the schools is not available. pasteurized mark. two dollar million over the as as of a clude cost much information at total of cost meals slightly It was estimated the Frequent surveys are made In of the district the taxpayer under 34 cents. Of this cost, surthese improvements and build- These include the addition at possible about people, where they schools to determine must give some study to the district school Lincoln costing $114,750 live, what they disagreed over in plus foods contributed about six whether or not the federal size of the county served. The ings would be $000,000. based on and a half cents, state funds the prices prevailing in 1945 The plus remodeling work on the old the past, and why they are going standards are maintained, the following explanation was preof the building costing to have to get together in the fusupplied three and improvement program was un- portion by Hervln Bunderson of and if be ture and to there is cents of the cost, the federal gov most recent indicating that no pared improvepeace dertaken at once, but it was nec- $13,550, remodeling administrative staff.) district the in less school served district the school Box Elder High ments at ernment supplied four cents in happiness. An education should essary to wait for building ma- in than the required quantities of The Box Elder County School contracts a of how some three $25,122 idea and cash totaling person give slightly paid patrons terials. Kenneth E. Weight the basic foods. district covers a land area of inover 20 cents per meal. When the old Central school plus additional construction costs a society functions; it should hot lunches 5,594 square miles, larger than of the Box Elder County School district, the . . . superintendent years During a and matheon the and clude curb gutter; pretty complete in Brigham City burned down Providing school lunches is have been served, the federal the entire state of Connecticut is back on the job and making final plans for the opening backat Park matical and scientific business in the district, the it upset the plans and post- recently let contract big has contributed 17 by 11. District schools are school calling for an out- ground in order to understand of schools in the district on September 7, after spending total received in payments for government of the cash cost, the state within a few rods of the Idaho poned the construction of pro- Valley percent an the all modern of world. of Above tour $22,800. on a two months the past Europe. the nine month period being has furnished 22 percent and state line in both the east and In the mean- lay jected buildings. In the advanced planning education should build character $181,755 97. To show the accur- the patrons have paid 61 percent. west ends of the time building costs rose rapidly. county, within and honesty in our youth. acy with which the planning is In addition to cash, the federal 15 miles of the Nevada line on Up to the present time, re- stage is a remodeling program to of a volume school out two River Lets done, year High modeling of old buildings at at Bear As we look to the future we government has given commod- the west, with schools widely of $355,095 48, the net operating ities in Portage, and Thatcher, and the provide facilities for a junior should realize that children are varying amounts from a dispersed throughout the county. construction of new buildings high school while architects are the key to permanent peace. If profit was $149.78. fraction of a cent to as much as A single visit to all the schools on the five cents of Federal legislation at Central in Brjgham City, the making preliminary plans for teachers and parents will help per meal during dif- in this district but one requires came first elemenschool lunch program Bear River High school and Gar- construction of a third 530 miles of travel. ferent years. children to develope normally, That one lions from seven .school lunch in 1935, on a temporary basis land elementary school have cost tary school in Brigham City, in close companionship and unLast year the schools served school, Lakeside, is reached by (Continued From Page One) site for which was purchased derstanding with others from in excess of $1,700,000. cooks, appointed six new ones The program was made perma- an average of nearly 3,300 meals train travel out of Ogden over the 1943 and the Utah legTwo of the schools to take their place Resignations nent in Elementary schools have been recently. their own neighborhood and from per day which was about 65 per- Lucin cut-ofstarted islature participating cent of the total enrollment in are in the Pacific time zone. Both-welover all included Ellen Christensen, typical neighborhoods All except the Of the 29 active schools in the Mav Anderson, Bear River that same year by providing that the schools. the world, they will appreciate LEST WE FORGET schools have been well district, 25 are served by vehicnatural differences of language, They also authorized purchase 'ey; Vurna Thompson. Bear Riv-o- f four percent of the retailfor price the additional Last year required school Pr High; Lila Rader, Corinne; of liquor be set aside equipped for the preparation of ular transportation. religion, and culture without prefund school lunch needed room meals. They have been provided 2,090 students were transported furniture or inthe'Melba With this Wendell, Willard; Joyce judice suspicion. Box In Box Elder County School with electric ranges, refrigerators, to and from school. There were mutual understanding and ap- district but held up a request Bracken, Boothe Valley; and district some of the schools co- mixers, utensils, dishes and sil- 67 students who received cash Box Elder High was a mim- - dlth Anderson, Lincoln, preciation of others they will operated the WPA to serve noon verware The districts invest- allowances in lieu of transportaprobably find ways to work and eograph machine, motion picture New are meals as early as 1941 but it ment in this equipment exceeds tion, a total of 2,157 students Andrea Is a appointees viola. and life. projector play together throughout Hansen, Bear River City; Grace was not until October 1911 that $50,000, all of which has been who were benefited by transporA water problem at Clear Creek Barker. This kind of youth development Corinne; Helen Brown, the district accepted the program paid from the school lunch funds. tation or 25 of all students in While always subjugated to$ is school was turned over to Bun- - Boot he Valley; LeOra Eberhard, and began providing supervision. and mutual understanding Objectives of the Utah school the district. football students at the two high schools, the banner stories about for derson is opNow the enlire program Both well; Afton Davis, Willard; investigation. very essential for every land and In rendering this service the games and other activities, pic- as well as board of education nation erated as a unit, the board of (Continued On Page Ten) The board accepted resigna- - and Florence Dunn, Lincoln. buses traveled 1,348 miles daily tures of new buildings and stor- staff members the 231,820 bus miles during ies about the business affairs of Success of the educational year. New Bear River High School Gymnasium, Class Room Unit Was Major Construction Job the Box Elder County School discan be determined by a For the purpose of reporting to trict. the real aim and goal of the comparison of standard testing the State Department of Educaentire system is to furnish an programs conducted in the distion, the transportation service program trict schools Employed are the adequate educational is converted to student miles. for the children, young bojs and California tests and the MetroDuring the last school year this to the first the test girls of the county from politan district provided 4,871,628 student Box In charge of this phase of the eighth grades Consistently, miles, the equivilent of one stuabove rated have Elder pupils sudent travelling around the earth operation are two qualified the average established for these at the equator 1.25 times daily, pervisors. Leon Christiansen and tests. or during the year the equivilent Norma Jensen, directors of curSimilarly, high school students of one student making more than riculum and instruction. achievement are put through nine return trips to the moon. Its their job to evaluate, plan, and a tests continuain aptitude The total cost during 1953-5change, correct and program the tion of the constant evaluation for this service was $73,560.41. Of teaching activities carried on in program this amount $5,601.47 was paid a uniform fashion at all schools "When a weakness in some and in lieu of transportation In order to get the new school we take shows steps up, subject $6.193 80 was paid to contract term off to a good start, a pre- to correct it, Christiansen drivers, those who furnished their school conference will be held pointed out "Such a weakness own vehicles. at Box Elder High school on Fri was responsible for establishing The 32 buses operated by the to 3 devoted day. September the new language arts program school district, including drivers teacher and educational evalua- which will be put into operation salaries, cost $61,765.14, which tion, broken down into seven for the first time this year. was less than 1.5 cents per stuOn the following study groups. This new language arts promile. The cost of operating dent will school faculty meetings day, gram evolved from a continuing buses, exclusive of drivers salaribe held in each school to make study last year in which 110 of es, has averaged just over 10 plans for putting the program the districts participated. The cents per bus mile. into operation when they open end result was two new guides, The average cost of transpor for business the following Tues- one for grades 1 through 6, the ing students to school during a other for giades 7 through 12, day morning at 9.00 oclock period of 172 days was $32.52 per Attending the meeting will be to set up objectives which a child participating student, while the the 195 teachers employed by the is expected to attain at each Total Cost Of This Beautiful New Structure average cost of payments in lieu district, who furnish instruction grade level and establish the last into December ern and dedicated and was and of a includes school Bear River and which pressed building completed gymnasium High transportation was $83.60 per adjoins to the 3,532 elementary pupils student. service during the remainder of the school term.. additional class rooms, has been established at $027,072.09. The fine mod- (Continued On Page Ten) in the 27 grade schools and 1 897 study of the chart at left, the tax dollar, representing shows in some detail just how it is sliced to carry on the various functions of the present day school system. Instruction of students, which includes teachers salaries, free text books, education supplies, and related items of expense, requires a little over 50 percent of the taxpayers investment in schools Capitol outlay, for new buildings and major improvements, costs better than 12 percent. To operate these school plants requires an expenditure of more than seven percent, school lunches cost a little more than nine percent, maintenance of plants nearly three percent and administration, slightly over two percent, to mention the more impor tant items. Covered in these general classof ifications are a multitude other necessary and required costs, like printing and supplies, insurance library books, interest, fuel, lights and water, medical services, architect fees, and many A District Invests $1,700,000 in New Buildings and Improvements Educational Goals by Weight School Lunch Program Provides Hot Meals for 3,300 Every Day - B. Larger Than Some States two-third- s one-hal- one-thir- School District Ready for Opening Contracts, Gets County Schools l; one-roo- Chief Objective of System Elder School District Ju-fro- to Educate the Children pro-gia- I i, |