Show school district to refund bonds substantial savings prompts action board biard considers other matters at regular august meeting with a view to substantial savings in III I 1 interest payments arid and to equalize or level off ol 01 the bond payments ot of the district the iron county school board at its meeting saturday decided upon an refunding fundin 9 program under which out bonds of tile the district will be ba refunded at lower interest charges ge ot of this his amount maturing in the near future were scheduled to be refunded when the current years budget was adopted to avoid a drastic increase in the tax it ax I 1 levy to retire them an added three mills would have been necessary this year to have paid them put but with the bond market better than it has been tor for a long lone time and the prospect of selling at par or more and with some ol of the districts brict 8 5 and 5 50 bonds obtainable the board decided to refund them at 4 interest with a prospective saving to the district of 0 about 1500 1500 except for the due within the year the maturity dates ot of the refunded bonds will be no different than at present but some equalizing izing of the payments to be made each year can be effected the board at its meeting also approved a school calendar tor for the current year which provides tor for beginning of school on tuesday september ter riber ath thanksgiving vacation N nv nov v 29 and 30 christmas vacation beginning with the close class of school rec pec 21 to jan 7 full two weeks birthday holiday on feb 22 with school closing on may alay ath which makes a tull full 36 weeks term vacancies in the teaching person el of 0 the district as indicated in our last last issue were tilled filled by the hoards boards approval of beryl froyd 1 for the english department of the carowan parowan high school delna deina steward and lasca osborn to replace vivian leavitt and glenna AL warn respectively celyn smith was ap 1 proved lor for part time work in n the cedar schools replacing winnifred Winni tred urle urie who thi byear will be a tull full j timi him lorin F wheelwright was giren a le leave ave of 0 absence tor for a year and A B larson of mt aft Plea pleasant arit wis WAS for or part time work in in j music instruction while i program was worked oil out whereby mr air manning ot of the 13 A C music department will handle vocal work in the cedar junior high mr jr larson will do private work in piano instruction during the other part of 0 the day the board decided to dispose ot of at sp I 1 an in springs and in hamlin valley which are no longer used arid and to call for bids for or them other routine matters were disposed dispo qed of chii three reports report the ali s the clerks financial and statistical reports were held for cor consideration at tho the next meeting |