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Show Know Your Schools HOW THE LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT DIST-RICT IS FINANCED By Helen Rogers and Roger Honey-man Honey-man Money to finance the Millard County School District comes from three sources: Federal funds, state funds ' and local funds. Of the three, the states furnishes almost two-thirds of the $525,000 necessary neces-sary for the district to function properly. The federal government contributes a small two percent while the funds raised locally make up the baance. Federal Support of the Schools Federal money expended in Millard Mil-lard county amounts to about $13, 000.00. This money comes through the George-Arden and Smith-Hughes Acts to support vocational education in the amount of $6,000. The greater portion of this $6,000 is used in the vocational agriculture agricul-ture program, and the remainder is . disbursed in the adult educa-ton educa-ton program. School lunches receive re-ceive about $7,000 annually from the federal government. They also reecive. however. anDroximatelv $3,000 to $4,000 in the form of commodities such as cheese, potatoes po-tatoes and canned goods. The veterans program in agriculture agri-culture in Millard county receives about $30,000 . from the government, govern-ment, which is used for supervision supervis-ion and instructional salaries, expenses, ex-penses, supplies and clerical services. ser-vices. This money is not included in the budget of the district, as it is completely reimbursed from the government. State Support of Schools The state is the largest supporter support-er of -the school district. It furnishes furn-ishes approximately $358,000.00 or about 68 percent of the total budget. bud-get. The primary source of this amount comes through the Uniform Uni-form School fund in the amount of $358,000.00 , Through legislation passed in 1947, every district is able to provide pro-vide a minimum school program, which is interpreted by law as costing $3300 for every class-room unit of thirty elementary and twen ty-eight high school students. This minimum program is financed by a state-wide taxing program, or a uniform school levy throughout Utah. The legislators, however, recognized re-cognized that this amount would not adequately finance a school program in many districts and so therefore provided that an additional addi-tional 30 of the cost of the minimum min-imum school program might be raised throug a local tax levy. The number of class-room units is determined de-termined by the number of students stu-dents enrolled as well as the spe- rial classification which some of the schools are given by the state, and there is also some consideration considera-tion given for the administratie and supervisional direction of the schools. This latter is on the basis of one class-room unit for each full-time full-time director, and one-half classroom class-room unit for each full-time supervisor super-visor thereafter. One-third classroom class-room unit is also given for each full-time agricultural teacher. The amount of $7500 is also disbursed dis-bursed by the state to support the school lunch program, and the state vocational education fund is added to the district's revenues in the amount of $600. The adult education program in the district receives $2700.00 from state and federal funds This constitutes con-stitutes 88 of the cost of the adult education program. This mon ey is used for teachers' salaries, teachers' mileage expenses, and a portion of the adult education director's di-rector's expenses. Local Support of the Schools As indicated in the paragraph above regarding the state uniform school fund, a portion of the finances fin-ances necessary for the operation and maintenance of the chool district dis-trict may be raised by local taxation. taxa-tion. The amount raised in Millard county by taxation is $134,000.00 Sale of school lunch tickets to students averages $27,000.00 annually. annu-ally. This is 60 of the cost of the school lunch program. An additional source, of funds is the rental of books and lockers in the high schools, which totals $3500.00. In the next article in this series, "Know Your School," we will discuss dis-cuss the disbursement of the school budget. |