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Show Tentative Budget Discussed In S.S, School Board Meeting The discussion of a tentative budget bud-get for South Sanpete school district for 1931-32, took up most of the time of the school board meeting held ac Manti Saturday. A public hearing on the proposed budget, which was submitted sub-mitted by Superintendent E. T. Reid, has been set for 8:30 p. m., June 22, at Manti, says the Ephraim Enterprise. Enter-prise. During the afternoon session of the board President Ray P. Lund handed in his written resignation as president of the board. A motion was carried, however, to defer action on the matter until the next meeting, hoping that Mr. Lund would change his mind. . A rather heated discussion over laboratory fees also took place and it was decided to discontinue all laboratory lab-oratory fees in the high schools of the district, except in the case of typewriting. The fees for chemistry, physics, etc., will now be borne by the district instead of being paid by the individual students. Superintendent E. T. Reid was formerly for-merly appointed to another two-year term in his present position. He will be allowed $650.00 traveling expenses per year for travel both within and outside the state, and his salary will remain at $2,800 per year with an approximate 10 per cent cut along with other employees of the district. The board also voted to place $11,-000 $11,-000 in the sinking fund, which, it is stated, appears to have been sadly neglected in the past. The budget, as submitted, has a total to-tal of proposed expenditures of $110,-694.31, $110,-694.31, as compared with $133,548.57 for 1930-31 and $149,289.42 for 1929-30. 1929-30. A chief cut comes in the cost of instruction, which is set for $75,726.94 as compared with $89,924.22 last year and $90,678.35 in 1929-30. ' Under the title of "Auxiliary Agencies," Agen-cies," the cost of transportation for next year is. set for $4,700, the same as for last year, whereas in 1929-30 it was $9,800.91, due, no doubt, to the purchase of new school buses. Maintenance Main-tenance of School Plant is cut from $3,050.48 in 1929-30 and $4,516.99 last year to $1,500 for the coming school year. Fixed Charges, which include rent paid the Snow college and insurance on property and employees, are set at $200, as compared with $2,736.22 in 1929-30 and $1,696.10 last year. The $1,500 paid the college annually as rent is not included and it is expected ex-pected that some plan will be presented pre-sented whereby this rent will be paid by other than the school district although al-though it is not dear how this can be done. There is an apparent mistake in this item as $200, is allowed for the insurance of property and another $200 for the insurance of employees, and yet these two items of $200 each are carried as; a total of only $200. A casual glance at the proposed budget, as submitted by the Superintendent, Superin-tendent, repeals other mistakes of mathematics so that it is apparent much revising will have to be done. As an example of the mistakes the total for the Debt Service (which includes in-cludes interetet, redemption of bonds, and interest on short term loans) for 1929-30 is given in the detailed section sec-tion asl $10,731.57, while in the "Summary "Sum-mary of Expenditures" it is given as $13,199.14, whereas the actual total of the three items for that year is $13,382.85. Time would not permit a detailed study of the proposed budget before publication date. |