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Show Alpine District Budget To Be Fixed For Coming Year The 1939-40 tentative school budget bud-get for the Alpine district was discussed dis-cussed briefly at the regular board meeting Tuesday. However, no definite defi-nite figures were arrived at and definite action was deferred pending pend-ing a consideration of the teacher's salary budget. A conference of board members and teacher's association asso-ciation representatives will be held April 3 to arrive at a salary schedule for the coming year. As will be remembered from a year ago the district and teachers then agreed on a salary schedule based on the available tax revenues. Last year this salary figure was set at 97 per cent of the schedule. The conference ' of ' the teachers and board members next Monday is expected ex-pected to result in the establishment establish-ment of the percentage on which pay will be based for the coming year. - The making of the yearly school budget is always a problem. The school district's operation requires a total expenditure of over $350,000, approximately two-thirds of which is salaries. To secure this revenue and still stay within the 12 y2 mill tax levy constitutes quite a problem for the board. There are a lot of fixed charges like building maintenance, interest, bond payments, supplies, salaries, etc., that cannot be changed much and a big part of the revenue is definitely defi-nitely spent from year to year. The board has usually done a very creditable credit-able job of handling the problems in the past and can be counted on to meet the new problem in a business like manner this year. However, with the loss of some state funds, resultant from the recent re-cent legislature action this year, and a drop in possible revenues from delinquent county taxes the coming year's budget making for schools presents an even greater problem than any year since the worst depression de-pression days. The taxpayers of the district will watch the making of this year's budget bud-get with considerable interest since taxes are becoming an ever menacing menac-ing burden to every class of people and every property owner in the state. I |