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Show 226 DESERET NEWS, Tuesday, December 3, 196 Utah Schools Must Walk A Financial Tightrope l school finance program acceptable to both the total education family and the Legislature is an enormous task, according to Dr. T. H. Bell, state superintendent of public instruction. Dr. Beil made the statement Monday at a task force meeting of educators, Utah Education Association (UEA) officials and representatives of school boards at UEA ofDeveloping fices in to build an expanded It may look stingy to ecutive secretary and director the class-loa- d (pupil-teachsome, but it is the best we of research for the UEA, has ratio) is a must. Utah is the have been able to come up compiled a UEA refourth highest in the nation and with, Dr. Bell said. He said port on proposed finances tc the highest in ihe'. Mountain it is the result of several be presented to the 1969 LegisStates in this respect. - t months of effort. lature. Dr. Bell explained that he Dr. McCarty said more emFollowing the meeting, Dr. realized the finance program McCarty made a statement on phasis needs to be placpd on is short of what the UEA is Dr. Bells extended year - and summer proposal: asking for. It does not provide enough school programs to provide Dr. Daryl J. McCarty, with money to take care of basic greater learning opportuniUEA President CarJ J. Mel-lo- r, needs of the current school ties for students and greater said the program outlined program throughout Utah. utilization of physical plants doesnt meet by Dr. Beil This, In and of itself, and professional personnel. basic needs. would take approximately a Of the $125 million requestDr. McCarty said the UEAs $20 million increase to meet ed, he said, UEA is only askgoal is actually an increased the basic program. In the ing for 21 per cent to improve expenditure of $125 million for State Board of Education and basic salary schedules. The the 1969-7biennium. This is School Boards Association remaining 79 per cent is to for the maintenance and operh the current proposal, approximately ations is earmarked for new program, including (more supplies, teacher salaries, he said. and expanded programs. jeacher equipment, teacher Dr. McCarty, assistant ex We believe a reduction of aids, smaller class loads) and Murrray. He outlined a program of the jcint legislative committee of the State Board of Education and Utah School Boards Association, which calls for a general increase of $23 million in maintenance and operation funds for the 1969-7school program. Ip his presentation, Dr. Bell past 10 Subsequent legislative sions have reduced the amount of support for this program. This has made it necessary for us to seek in our legislative program a state fulfillment of the Legislatures original obligation, he said. He explained that the $23 million represents an increase of the basic distribution unit from $7,500 to $8,600 a unit It raises state support of the V years. He said there is a residual debt in Utah or over $125 million. When the state raised the amount of indebtedness authority in 1961, he said, it also pledged itself to pay off the difference between a levy and what the difference would be in handling bond principal and interest. So taxpayers voted for the heavy bonded indebtedness with the understanding that a- ll strengthen program 0 year. ses- emphasized , problems resultresidual ing from heavy debts of 14 Utah school districts which have had heavy enrollment growth during thp 1 one-fift- portion of the burden would be carried by the state, Dr. Bell said. Special Tax Income Makes Big Gain Board of Education leeway from $140 per distribution unit per mill to $190. Dr. Bell said past legislatures tended to "inch further away from their commitment to the residual debt, but it is understandable in view of the tremendous demands on them. Irene McGregor, Mrs. Odgen, state president of the Utah Congress of Parents and Teachers Association (PTA), told the meeting that more emphasis should be given to supplying morq counseling for youngsters in the first grade " and elementary levels. , She said PTAs in some areas feel a lacking in port from teachers. Dr. J. C. Moffitt, rap- Provff,.ex-ecutiv- secretary of the ty of Superintendents, urged enactment of the Professional Practices Act and further school district consolidation If we are sincere in turr convictions that we are going to have a better state pnd economy, then we must pay more for education, Dr. Moffitt said. Chicago Fugitive Arrested In S.L. i By CLARENCE S. BARKER Deseret News Staff Writer L. Rampton had used an esti- $75.68 million, up 11.3 per cent state apparently is losing some franchise cf the corporation mate of 6.3 per cent gain for this compared with a year ago. Sufranchise tax col- taxes as a result of a State year. Corporation Income tax, sales tax and gaslections total $2.43 million. This, preme Court decision of May 1966. Sales tax collections for the oline tax collections for the state too, is an increase compared period are $32.24 with a This held that unitary corpoare continuing to surge ahead of milafter $5 year ago, up 10.4 per cent com- lion, added last from a re- ration operations such as minlast year and to outstrip esti- million,with year a year ago. An esti- serve for pared protested taxes, is ing and contracting firms, could mates, the State Tax Commis- mated 6.5 per cent increase had their total profits deducted. apportion been anticipated. sion reported today. to a formula based according COURT RULING Income withholding tax collecGasoline tax collections are upoq kales, salaries and propMr. Smart said he Is dis- erty in, Titah as compared with tions since July 1 total $18.67 $12.31 million, up 7.4 per cent, turbed that the corporation that in the country. also higher than anticipated. million, for a whoppir.g 16.3 per franchise tax collections are not Previously, the lax CommisSPECIAL TAXES cent gain over last year. higher. sion had required that separate Herbert F. Smart, state fiTotal special state tax collecPaul M. Holt, chief auditor for accounting be provided for Utah nance director, said Gov. 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