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Show SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Utah Property Tax Trends Now Released by Tax Association The October bulletin of the Utah Taxpayers Association is just off the press. It contains the levies of all taxing units in the state for 1970 and 1971. It also shows the trend of property tax charged for schools, cities and towns, counties, etc., from 1916 to 1971. This is an excellent and useful analysis. Property taxes in Utah continue to climb. This year the total bill amounts to $167,955,-00This is $45,318,742, or 37 per cent more than was charged in 1965. It is $13,833,033, or 9 per cent above last years figure. This is the largest dollar increase in the states history. There are 394 separate taxing authorities in the state. State Uniform School levy, 29 counties, 40 school districts, 215 cities and towns, and 109 special districts such as water, sewer, cemetery, mosquito, etc. Levies. The 1971 average state levy is 85.45 mills. Since 1965, the average state levy jumped from 80.22 to 85.45 mills, or 6.5 per cent. Last year, the average levy was 83.42 mills. The highest over all levy imposed in a city is in Ogden City with 121.92 mills. The over all includes levies for school, city, county, state school and any special districts. Other total levies in cities are: Salt Lake 105.92 mills, Provo 94.31, and Logan, 81.26 mills. The highest levy made by any single taxing unit is 52.15 mills imposed by the Murray School District. Wasatch School District levy went up 4.11 mills this year. No other school district can match this record. Beaver District cut 4.20 mills and Wayne 3.00 mills. 0. Utah United Fund Launches Campaign County Sheriff Larson Asks for Jail Takeover Park City with a 49.25 mill levy has the highest city levy. Manila, in Daggett County, is next highest with 36.50 mills. Soldier Summit in Wasatch county had the biggest increase this year 12.00 mills. County levies. Salt Lake County is the highest with 21.82 mills. Beaver County had the biggest increase 3.40 mills, from 9.50 to 12.90 mills. Salt Lake County was next with a 3.22 jump. The highest levy made by a special district is 17 mills made by the Uintah Water and Sewer District in Weber County. All told, Special Districts impose a total property tax burden of or 4.4 per cent of the total charged in the state. City property taxes this year will amount to $21,430,000, or 12,8 percent of the overall total. In 1965, the figure was $16,367,-67Salt Lake City is responsible for $8,320,057 or 39 per cent of all such property taxes imposed. School property taxes account for 61.9 per cent of the total load with $103,890,000. In addition, the schools will have other revenues of around $120,000,000 all income taxes, state land board, mineral leasing and special appropriations. County property taxes will amount to $35,050,000 or 20.98 per cent of the over all burden. In 1960, the county tax burden was but $9,300,405 or 10.7 per cent. The Salt Lake County is responsible for $22,376,910, or 64 per cent of all county taxes. $7,-380.0- 00 5. Webers total is $3,014,961, or 8.6 per cent of the total and Utah county is responsible for or 5.6 per cent. $1,969,-22- 8, Utah State Democratic Party Cains New Executive Director Utah United Funds 1971 campaign began October 7th with R. Kent Briggs, until the kickoff luncheoon in Hotel a legislaitve assistant to recently GoverUtahs Lafayette and Junior ball nor Calvin L. Rampton, was aprooms. pointed to become the new exMrs. George (Lenore) Rom- ecutive director of the Utah ney, keynote speaker, addresed State Democratic Committee. the crowd of nearly 500 people. Briggs, a native of Carey, Idaho, Robert H. Bischoff, vice presi- is a graduate student of the Unident Commercial Security Bank, versity of Utah, working for a is general campaign chairman. Ph.D. in political science. Robert L. Johnson, president of Air. Briggs will succeed Scott Shield, is Bergeson. Utah Blue Cross-Blu- e who is going into busivice chairman. Thomas G. Judd ness as a partner in a large touris United Fund president. ist hotel in Rawlins, Wyo. The kickoff luncheon was held Air. Briggs has served as cenin conjunction with the Salt tral Idaho cordinator for the r, Lake Kiwanis Club. Ted of Sen. Frank Church in Kiwanis president, pre- 1968 and assisted with the camsided. Entrance music was proof Rep. Gunn AIcKay. vided by the Granite high school paign Air. Briggs is also involved band: special numbers by the with his teaching fellowship at Hamilton Court, University of the University of Utah. Utah musicians and singers. The invocation was by the Most Rev. Joseph Federal, Bishop of vin L. Rampton sat at the head Diocese of Salt Lake. Mrs.Cal- - table. re-electi- on Kirk-meye- FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1971 Sheriff Delmar L. Larson Sheriff Delmar Larson asked the Salt Lake County Commission to assume the duties of taking over the county jail facility as soon as possible. The Sheriff said city jail employees have been seeking other employment since the announcement of a merger of city and county jail operations was made. The final decision to merge operations of the jails was made in a meeting of city and county officials. At that time the Sheriff said it was brought to the attention of those present that the city was paying $1 per day per prisoner which was the cost of food, jail clothing and bedding which the county provided. A committee of officials studied the cost of the merger and determined that the actual cost to the county in the event the sheriff takes over the entire control of the jail would be about $1.81 per prisoner per day. The committee concluded that a charge of $2 per day per prisoner should be paid by the city for a year, after which time a cost study would be made to determine actual cost. The Sheriffs office will need 10 additional county employees to take over the jail at a cost of $6,000 per month. Sheriff Larson has asked for the merger to take effect on November 1, if possible. Public Hearings on Higher Education Governance in State The State Board of Higher Educations Special Committee on Goverance released a schedule of six public hearings to be held during the month of November on selected campuses in the state. Donald B. Holbrook, chairman, with committee members Warren H. Bullock, Cedar City; Rex G. Plowman. Lewiston; Nathan C. Tanner, Ogden and Roy W. Simmons, Salt Lake City, will conduct the hearings on campus to give interested citizens an opportunity to help the board review and evaluate the governance of Utahs System of Higher Education. In July, the Board assigned the committee to review and recommend to the board a redefinition of responsibilities, power, delegated authority and authority specified in the Higher Education Act of 1969 with respect to the board, the institutional councils, institutional presidents and the office of the commissioner of higher education. The sessions begin Alonday, Nov. 8, at 9:00 A.M. on the College of Eastern Utah campus. Legislators representing the area served by Snow College and CEU, as well as institutional council members from the two institutions, faculty and staff representatives, student representative, alumni representative, alumni representative, president and interested members of the public, are invited to be heard in that order. According to rules set down by the committee, all participants should submit written statements in the interest of time. A session in Provo, also will be conducted Nov. 8 at Utah Technical College at Provo, for Utah County residents. The other four hearings will be held following this schedule: Friday, Nov. 12, 10 ajn. Southern Utah State College, Cedar City for SUSC and Dixie College area. Wednesday, Nov. 17, 9:00 a.m. Weber State College. Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2:30 p.m. Utah State University, Logan. Wednesday, Nov. 24, 9:00 a.m. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, for the U. of U and Utah Technical College at Salt Lake. In addition to the hearings, questionnaires have been circulated to legislators, institutional council members, institutional presidents and education and community leaders, as part of the over all review program. TODAYS EDITORIAL 4 v Research on Cancer Scientists in Utah colleges and hospitals, backed by .$400,590 from the American Cancer Society, are carrying out the research that may help produce a cure for malignant disease some day. But their work is aimed less at looking for a magic pill for the disease and more with simply trying to learn about the complex cells which make up the human body. Until we learn more about how cells function we're not going to be able to come up with a general cure for cancer one scientist said. Dr. Karl G. Lark of the University of Utah DepartFeeling of Bobby in Salt ment of Biology said this basic approach was learned A London bobby n Lake on a visit toured the from disappointments in the past. Hall of Justice with the Every time there was a sudden apparent breakChief of Police Calvin White-heaHis comments of the Salt through, it turned out to be wrong. It was not as simple Aletro-polita- d. Lake City policemen was rather informal but the many problems facing the Salt Lake County policemen are the same type of those facing a London bobby. The Salt Lake Police should feel happy with their starting salary as the pay scales for London police is equivalent to $2,200 a year. he said. Most of the dmgs developed so far deal with the symptoms of cancer rather than the cause, although they often are quite effective. Dr. Lark is backed by a Cancer Society grant in his studies of chromosome replication, the role of proteins in as we thought, (Continued on page four) |