Show millard county school district financial report the financial report of the hlll abill ard county school district tor for the past fiscal year appears in this issue of 0 the progress and Is published very much in detail showing allowing lust just how the school district spent in the neighborhood ot of last year the board of education Is to be commended upon the line fine financial condition lite district appears appear to be in and upon their desire desile to give the public an opportunity to readily see bee just how the tax payers dollars have lave been spent the board of 0 education litis year has gone along with many other counties of the state in publishing a financial report in accordance with the requirements ot of law and in case some of 0 our readers are not familiar with the law in tills this regard we wish to quote in part from section of 0 ate 1917 laws of utah as taken from the 1905 session laws at page describing the duties a 0 athe clerk ot of school boards and to prepare and submit to the board an annual statement under oath of 0 the receipts and disbursements during the year ending june which statement tho the board shall cause to be published in a newspaper having general beneral circulation in the county showing 1 the amount on hand at the date 0 at the last report 2 the amount ot at sinking fund and how invested 3 the moneys paid out to whom and tor for what paid 4 the balance ot of school money on hand 6 5 the number date and amount of 0 every bond issued and redeemed under the authority herein given and the amount received and paid therefore 4 this law has been in effect in utah for or a number of 0 years and serves a beneficial purpose in giving the public a convenient means 0 of t seeing the manner in which tile the pit publics blics business to la transacted in times past there has been some criticism ot at the section ot at the law which requires that a record ot of the moneys paid out to whom and tor for what be published one ot at the reasons advanced against this is that it Is an unnecessary cost in ili this respect it might be said that the cost of the he complete publication of 0 this report as it appears in this paper to a taxpayer who actually pays taxes Is less than 3 cents therefore we ire feel that no taxpayer would seriously object from the cost standpoint the report Is attested by miss badger clerk ot of the board and was prepared by her with the assistance ot of the treasurer mr air robins and board member kelly this has undoubtedly caused miss badger a great amount ot of tedious labor and we wish to thank her tor for the very excellent condition the report was in when presented to tills this paper for or publication it certainly showed the result of 0 work well and faithfully done |