Show SCHOOL QUESTIONS concerning Gonce ining school scho I 1 dipti act finances given by supt bupt ballow 1 what was as the iron county abor for se school b purposes purpose last ear answer twelve mills which that the people of iron county paid 12 00 for eoy e oy I 1 00 of asses sea sed valuation JS if thi iha assessed essed vain 1 aaion in iron county is a 50 percent of the real valuation then the tax papers of iron county 7 were p a ing for sondol purposes last ear car at the rate of fa 6 00 per it 1000 00 actual van aaion it is doubtful if the assessed valuation of property Y V in the county count bould exceed 50 percent of the ac tuat valuation lostion a 2 how does the county ta tax of tins this 3 ear car f for I 1 school purposes corn p pare nith that of I 1 last a at year an answer awer the lew leve this year was a leven mills or 11 II 11 00 for evert evers lifur 0 00 of cass assessed essed valuation which is one mill less thau than the levy for last ear 3 whit part of the levy goe to debt service in other words word ast part pact of if ft tm yes year s levy is pid paid out our for T payment on bonds interest on bonds and sinking fund answer three and five tenths 0 3 5 mills a or approximately one third of the total amount of money received for school purposes in the county 4 what are am the bonds for which tb this is mount amount of money is being paid out tins this ye yeara a r answer I 1 these h bonds were original ly issued ad fit f ir building I 1 in the count 00 for the adar city grade building duet due in 1934 50 00 for the building due in 1936 45 00 for the b building due 2000 annual annually ill and li 0 00 0 for the paragonah Para gonah build ing cedar junior high building arid and addition to the parowan boan bunding building due 00 arm annually al I 1 Y obviously at least one third of the money collected for local school purposes each year goes to pay for buildings bui dings which are not yet paul paid for an and din in bedal city cily and carowan parowan already over crowded 5 1 it the sinking fund in iron C county on or y school Ditri dietrict ct in good shape and up to date answer ites ils it is a enough monel is t being put into the sinking fund each year to mine the outstanding long time bonds when they are due 6 Is the cost for operating schools this year as great as last year A answer swe yes the cost for this year is approximately the same as lat la t year in spite of the fact that we it have added expense of transports tran to tion I 1 in the county also about 5 00 0 to wipe out floating in d e bt edness which has been carried by the school district since the dais of c consolidation in subsist I 1 on 7 why then did the school board I 1 only I 1 ly lavy eleven mills milk this year whereas they had levied twelve nulls last t year scar A answer the I 1 lew a sy for 1924 25 for op errati ug aud and maintenance which does not include pigment pili zent of bonds interest on bonds and the money county put P ut I 1 into the sinking fund was seven tell mill chis WAS known not to be enough to maintain the schools for last year so t the he budget called fr fir the refunding funding of two bonds this 12 ai 00 a was PI practically ti eba to the he mount amount of money that could be raised by a lev icv of one and a half mills tor last year thus the actual money only received for nine abing and maintenance last year was the am amount aunt that could be raised b M levy of eight and ad a half mills 8 W what 1 at is the levy asked for this thih 3 leaf f fur or ope operating abing and main maintenance terance answer the levy baked for by tin school board and granted by the coal county ty co TV imers was waa eight and ad a half mills which proved to be a bow the legal limit I 1 in iran C county ty therefore seven and a halt mills w what but the school bowd actually to operate the ic schools school on no this line i 5 9 did the school board that seven and a half mills was th legal limit for iron county at ac time the budget for was made out answer no ten mills for ng and maintenance was thought be iron Count countes ss legal limit this year when our levy after hav ing been passed on is bv the school board and the county commissioners maritto went to the beard bard of equalization where an interpretation was placed upon the law setting forth that se sev en and a half mills was construed to be iron county a legal limit 10 what effect will the loss of this one mill which is equal to abo abent t 8 00 have upon the schools of iron county till this year answer it would be necessary to close school at the end of six and a hilf months unless the tax payers is of the he county comal are willing to come to the he rescue 13 11 what steps are being taken by bythe the board of education to pro pre vent the schools from closing at such an early dae answer the school board is asking the tax payers of iron imm county to allow the them to create an indebtedness to the amount of 8 00 making it possible to continue school for the regular eight months period 12 upon what bar date data will such election be held drawer this election will be held beld december 1925 in every pre in the counti 13 it if the tax paben pavers of iron iran coult vote to have such indebted riess nebs created when will it be paid an answer aner er if allowed to create the in debated ness mentioned above the school B board would ind P aiace M an ad addi ional initial one M th mill it lew iv 0 on next years ix for the purpose of paying for the video indebtedness edness crested 14 for 11 be e small additional out it loy liy of 1 1 l 00 for every 1 1 00 of assessed valuation or possibly no not more mom than 50 tie for every fl 1 00 of 0 actual valuation can the tax pay era am of iron iran county afford to have the th schools of the county close at th the I 1 end of six and ft a half answer this can be answered best ieter after some thought and some corn com pari between the actual cost and the value IV to the children 15 do you know what your asses sed valuation W is answer of course you do then sit down with pencil and paper and figure out how bow many thousand dol lars of assessed valuation you have accordi tig to your tax notice if you have 1 00 assessed valuation then hen the cost to you for this addi lonal one and a half months of hool will be 1 00 it iou have a justice of 10 00 it 11 will cost yen m 10 00 if you hive have only assessed valuation the cost to you will be but 50 cle 16 dole does the tha iron counts lax I 1 payers association approve of abe t he school board b action to create th the 1 indebtedness mentioned above answer yes a committee from the tax papers palen association U T jones aws J S woodbury and wm win R palmer met with the based and very carefully ale fully went over the t hu a coe coequal in solved this il dom ommittee made a mittle mads report bast baab to the original ame tax A committee which went oil an record as endorsing the move 17 what is ib the purpose 0 of f ill the a ton ron county tax payers committee commit t ee |