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Show i Taxpayers may see increase in school district mill levy bv Nan Chalat Basing budget projections for the 1985-86 school year on a conservative three percent increase in enrollment and a 23 percent increase in assessed valuation. school superintendent Tony Mitchell and business administrator Bill Sampson presented a preliminary budget proposal to the school board that calls for a 3.5 mill levy increase. Mitchell emphasized the projection represents a ballpark figure. A formal budget hearing will be held next month, he said. A three percent increase in students would bring the district enrollment to 1,268. The assessed valuation, minus the amount assigned to the Redevelopment Agency is tentatively set at $197,362,932, Mitchell said. In addition to the increase in assessed valuation, the district can also expect more revenues from the otate allotment per pupil. But those increases will be balanced out by the state minimum school program recapture fund, which is expected to glean $1.67 million from the Park City School District next year. The minimum school fund was instituted to equalize education opportunties across the state. For the last several years the Park City School District has been required to put more money into the fund than it receives from it in weighted pupil units. Last year the state kept $1.28 million, Mitchell said. Mitchell proposed the' board assess only 4.4 of the possible five voted leeway mills because of the district's inability to meet the lower pupil-teacher ratio at the elementary school this year. The biggest increase in the budget would be the capital outlay fund, he said. The new math science wing m and landscaping at the Treasure Mountain Middle School will be the major contributors to that increase, he said. Mitchell said the proposed budget includes some of the highest per pupil instructional expenditures in the state. With additional staff assignments at the elementary school, the per pupil instructional cost would be $1,835, up $269 from last year. That figure at the Treasure Mountain Middle School would be $2,028 and at the high school $2,024 per pupil, Mitchell said. The projections are based on a five percent salary increase for teachers, he added. The first item on the capital improvement budget priority list as presented Tuesday night was $100,000 for landscaping at the Treasure Mountain Middle School. The date of the budget hearing has not been set. |