| Show I 1 utah s bonded debt less than many states utah taxpayer gives comparative figures urges better pay for school teachers lists local bonded leat the may issue of oe the bitah taxpayer contains illuminating information Tria tion on the bonded debt situation in utah this is tabulated by cities school districts and counties compared with the united states average and with surrounding states advantageous position i is again emphasized our total bonded debt is ig only 64 of the average throughout the country while the per capita bonded debt ot or the mountain states is tit in utah it is only the tabulations tn in that issue ot 01 the taxpayer show that 9 or of the 29 counties have no bonds outstanding with one exception all the rest res of the counties lowered their atit outstanding bonds since 1930 by ag 26 that in 1930 all the school dist districts nets except wayne were bonded but that 5 school districts now can boast of that distinction that out of incorporated cities and towns 43 ere are willmut bonded debt that 61 communities unities retired more bonds S than they issued salt lake city h and ogden wera re responsible pon sible fo for r 1 lift ft ing the general level of the bonded li debt on the question of the school budgets which are now being prepared for 1936 37 the uta utah it tax ta payer urges that after provision is r made for taking care of the debt service the first item should be teachers salaries and that P all 11 oth tg er expenditures such as construct i son ion and maintenance of school build ings transportation etc should kl that the list best interests of education can be served when teachers of higher araxi ding protea plates y 1 p atonal training and loyalty direct our school affairs on this question the tha publication says it is very rare indeed that good teachers are overpaid on the other hand a poor teacher Is always overpaid 7 the taxpayer lists carowan parowan Pa rowans gross bonded debt at cedar cites at at the countes Coun tys at and the school districts at or a total bonded indebtedness in the county of this represents Tre of the assessed value of the county in 1935 as compared with in 1930 the figures given are subject of course to adjustments for payments made recently such as the reported by the county last week |
