Show the U T A has move In villore to say regarding H a S 0 editor record the utah taxpayers Ae association at this time desire to correct the misunderstanding shown to be in the mind of alston regarding their recent communication on the proposed now new high school building and the relation ot of the association to the public A few or of the ile statements statement contained in the superintendents article will be corrected others will be ignored as the association has no intention of making this issue one 01 ol of personal controversy the article in question appeared above the signature ot of the utah tax payers payers association and wasa was a ines imes sage ge to the taxpayers from that organization g a I 1 g it set forth in general ter terms b at position posit ton wt will 11 bo be when the aw tic 0 up for the vo vote of the taxpayers i the public should have a clear understanding der of the reason for the ex distance istance 04 0 a taxpayers association who they represent and the purpose se 0 of the organization the vast expenditure of 0 public funds the consequent burden of taxes upon the people brought throughout the ual ted states the realization that some organization should be in existence chich which will represent the people who pay the bills and present to them the facts when unwise expenditure ot of the public la ii under conald oration utah in ia common with Iza other states formed such an bation tion each bach of the organization i representing the nine basic taxpaying groups of 0 the state was asked to appoint a representative to act on the state committe this state organization in turn appointed county count organizations to act as represents j tires of the various taxpaying groups I 1 I 1 these representatives are not self appointed but fulfill a public duty to the taxpayers as a whole and act I 1 as the investigators of 0 the expends ture of the money which the public pay in taxes they are fact fand ers era and not fault finders and their intent is to work in harmony whenever possible with the officials who have in their charge the dis of public funds the summit county committee has in the course of its work had the opportunity ot of coming in contact with our local school board and has much to commend tor for the careful painstaking way in which they have investigated our high school problem on oil their own initiative the school board procured mr air hugh lewis lenis superintendent ot of grounds and buildings tor far the salt lake city schools who is undoubtedly the best expert on school building requirements in the international region he made an impartial investigation of the high school building situation and his report was that at reasonable cost the present structure could be made suitable tor for our needs He Ile decided that the building of a mew structure at this time would be an unwise expenditure of public funds the school board itself ihas has not officially spoken but there Is ia reason to believe that some of tl the in members are in accord with ith their ali oil wat engineer in his opinion th that a new building a not necessary to the re quire ot of our school system contrary to the statement of the school su superintendent peri nten dent the tax payers association has not opposed the recent increase in salaries of our te teachers aebers they are heartily in favor of it and believe that money can b better et be spent oni on personnel than on needless bricks the committee in conformance with their 1 duty attended the public hearing on the school budget and in conformance contor mance with wilh their duty as the representatives of all classes kofl taxpayers asked tor for an explanation of 0 the itene set pet forth in the budget once the purpose of these items i was as eipl explained no exception to any of them was taken by th the e representatives of the association it is in the opinion ot of the association I 1 improper tor for any school official to attempt to classify the people who lie pay the bills b ills his only consideration should be Is the proposed expenditure the taxpayers association will do their duty as the representative of all the taxpayers and when the election is optically otti cally called will present to the people reasons which should convince them that the proposed end bond issue is unwise and unnecessary to the welfare of our school system yours very truly SUMMIT COUNTY COMMITTEE utah taxpayers association park city utah july 23 1925 |