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Show Foundation Reports State Aid Study Residents of Cedar City would have to pay an additional prop-i prop-i erty tax of 7.54 mills ($7.54 per i $1,000 assessed valuation), if the amount of state aid provided to local units of government dur- Ing 1956 had to be raised by a local property tax. This fact was ! revealed in a research study of state aid In Utah Just completed by Utah Foundation, the private, I non-profit tax research organi- I zatlon. ' According to the Foundation . ' report, state aid to the Iron Coun- ! ty school district In fiscal 195G ;J was equivalent to a 0.82 mill ' J ' property tax levy. The state aid going to Iron County would y- amount to a 1.75 mill levy, while Nj the state funds distributed to Y - ' Cedar City would be equal to a 4.96 mill property levy. Total state aid distributed to all units of eovernments In Iron County last year amounted to $147,457, or $14.04 for every man, woman and child residing In the county. Foundation analysts point out that financial aid totaling $26,-924,40 $26,-924,40 was provided by the state of Utah to 40 school districts, 29 counties, and 207 cities and towns during the 1956 fiscal year. This sum was equal to slightly more than one third of all tax revenue collected by the State during the year. State aid in 1956 amounted to 26.8 of all Utah state expenditures. The report states that Utah provided state aid to local governments gov-ernments under 16 different programs pro-grams during the 1956 fiscal year. In addition, funds were distributed by the State and under un-der seven Federal programs. More than three fourths of all state aid distributed to local units of government is allocated from the Uniform School Fund, according to the Foundation analysts. an-alysts. During 1956, 38 of Utah's 40 school districts received state aid for school operations from the Uniform School Fund, while two districts (Jordan and Iron) made contributions to the state fund. I The research study observed ! that many of the present pro grams of state aid In Utah orig-, inated or were expanded as a re-1 suit of the recommendations of the Tax Study Committee In 1956. j This committee drafted the basic features of Utah's school finance program, advocated local sharing of liquor monopoly profits, pro-1 ! posed Increased allocations of j motor vehicle registration rev-1 eni ta local governments for l local road use, and recommended that counties be relieved from their portion of the public welfare wel-fare costs. These measures were designed to relieve the property tax which was to carry the major part of the public school load. According to the Foundation report, state aid to local government govern-ment in Utah amounted to $36.42 per capital, compared with $37.13 per capital for the entire nation In 1955. Per capita state aid for education In Utah, however, was more than 50rf above the national nation-al average, amounting to $31.04 In Utah and $19.57 in the United Statttf. In this comparison Utah ranked 8th among the 48 states in the amount of state aid per capital going for public education. educa-tion. Utah, however, has a much higher relative public school 'oad than the rest of the nation. funds furnished 41.3 of " ruble school revenue In Utah urtrnr fh 1953-54 school year, wwinei-oH with an average state wrona f .T7.4' for the na-Mon na-Mon a-? n whole. In this reeard ner con' of total public school tVtripA frrrry ttt 8nlirCS) "h rank among th 4 Between 1950 and 1956, state aid to local governments In Utah increased five fold. The study -howed that the population rise n Utah during the same period has been about 46r: xz |