Show Need More More In Race This is the first of oC two articles on the duties qualifications qualifications and election procedures of the Davis County School Board This material was compiled by the League of Women Voters of Bountiful as a part of Its Voters Voter's Service activity for the citizens of Davis County The next article will be entitled The School Board Its Duties and The Law f ON NOV 8 OF THIS YEAR voters in Bountiful Woods Cross and are expected to elect a aJ J school board member from the their r respective precincts Numbers 1 2 and to 3 continue a most important that business of oC educating our children However if one were to judge the interest a school board election generates one would think that being on the school board was a very minor public duty but the facts point to the contrary I 7 l THE PRESENT TOTAL PUBLIC school population y In Davis County is students Five YEars ago J there were and ten years ago r To operate the Davis County School District requires 1700 people 1111 or of whorl are teachers Five years ago there were teachers and ten years ago teachers The cost of educating each student in the fiscal year 65 1964 was and It Is expected to reach for the current current cur cur- rent fiscal year The Davis County Board of Education was responsible for tor spending for the fiscal year 65 1964 while It spent only in inthe inthe the 51 1950 fiscal year Its budget for the current fiscal year is In comparison the city of Bountiful with an estimated population between and operates on a budget of which includes monies for operating operating oper- oper capital outlay Class C. C Road funds and 1 redemption of bonds BEFORE YOU LET THESE FIGURES roll ot of the top of your head like water off of a ducks duck's back stop and consider who pays this tremendous bill This is not a soak the rich rich educational educational system Everybody pays for it including many people who do not live in DavIs County U If you own real property in Davis County the current mill levy for property tax for educational purposes Is mills 45 mills for the school distrIct levy and 86 mills for the uniform school fund levy which goes to the state of Utah In the fiscal year 65 1964 slightly less i. i w than of oC the more than 17 million budget was raised from local district sources p property taxes sales of bonds and short term notes and and school 1 lunch fees paid by students Approximately 2 was received from the federal government under the law for federally Impacted districts for tor vocational trainIng school lunch funds and surplus commodities EDUCATION IS THE largest single Item In the budget of the state of utah and andin in 65 1964 Davis County schools received approximately from thIs source The state Uniform School Fund receives all of the personal and corporate Income tax part or of the cigarette tax all of the state share of royalties from the lease of federal lands the Income from state school lands all of the state Imposed property tax and a significant portion of sales and other general fund tax sources by transfer from the General Fund Since John Q Q Public Is responsible for the kind of education we have in Davis County and elsewhere In See SCHOOL BOARD on page 2 |