Show State Pays Most host 0 Of County Coty Schools I I Provides Five Dollars i i Each Davis Dollar Beca Because se the Uie Davis Count County school district participates in inthe inthe the state the slate equalization program r Jf the financing of school dis- dis n for fOl every dollar raised uy the dIe the local local taxes the state t 4 ovid es approximately 5 t- t FACT is noted in checking over O the 64 1963 proposed proposed pro pro- posed budget totaling and tentatively approved by y the school board last Monday Mon Ion day night Plans for fOl adopting the the budget on a permanent basis have been tentatively set r for r June 20 by the board The total budget includes a building program of about three million dollars t the h e 4 school lunch program of more than a million dollars and a maintenance and operation fund of nearly neally a million dol dol- lars Jars Total of the 63 1962 budget budget budget bud bud- get was set at TillS THIS YEAR maintenance and md operation funds arc are listed at compared to 7 last Jast year r. r The new lunch program figures are 1 compared to in 63 62 and the he capital outlay outlay out out- lay this includes costs of oC schools remodeling remodel building new ing hug others buying buy equipment and md furnishings pa paying ing off oU bonds and pa paying ing interest on other bonds was listed at Although there is a project project- cd d enrollment of or 2 1467 students students stu- stu dents some 2000 more than Ulan this year ear which is just endi ending ending end end- i ing the total of or the new budget et is only slightly higher than for 1962 There is also a raise of or more than a million dollars proposed for an increase increase in in- i crease of or teachers' teachers salaries BUT nur TilE THE reason the tentative tentative tenta tenta- tive U budget is only a million dollars more than last year is that currently the building program is just under six million million mil mil- lion dollars and next year ear when the proposed budget is in effect this figure is expected expect expect- ed t to drop to around three million Next Ned year there will be classroom units in the district an nn increase of or about 80 classroom classroom class class- room units The district will hire approximately 90 additional additional addi addi- I teachers This fact and andr r the teachers' teachers salary increase proposed by the school board would bring the total salaries of or the regular day to classroom teachers not in- in eluding substitute teachers special teachers such as music music music mu mu- sic teachers nor principals to compared to 4 in 1962 The total figures in the instructional instructional instructional in in- category of or the budget are currently This Tills figure is expected to I raise to next year ear Included in this category are arc the teaching staffs staff's salaries principals counselors counselors counse counse- lors lars special teachers and any supplies used for classroom classroom class class- room ins instruction true lion SUPT G. G Harold Holt Bolt pointed point point- ed out the importance of the state school equalization fund to the Davis district He lie said if it weren't for lor this program and the net of oC in anticipated anticipated anticipated an an- I federal aid next year car carthe the district would be too loo poor to operate Even though the local tax levy y has been raise raised two mills this year ear to 25 mills for maintenance maintenance main main- and operation of the schools the district would collect col lect about compared to the more than 9 million they'd need and arc are scheduled sched to receive from the state funds TilE THE LOCAL district levy Jevy for Cor capital outlay set at 18 mills would net another million million million mil mil- lion dollars but the tenta tentative ive budget in this category calls for an expenditure of nearly five million next year ear Supt Holt Bolt said that approximate approximately approximately mate 90 per cent of the the teachers in the district this year plan to return next year if the salary controversy is dissolved bf I |