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Show - Property Owners Can Give Themselves Them-selves Real Gift Property owners of North Sanpete San-pete school district can give themselves a "pre - Christmar gift" of more than $S,S00 plus e 7.3 mills reduction in tax lev by voting "es" to proposed con stitutional amendments No. ? and 4 in the Nov. 5 election. Such would be the case if the school district decided to operate under the state minimum educational edu-cational program of $3,000 per class room unit which is a better program than we have heretofore ever put into effect in the North Sanpete School District. Revenues accruing to the district dis-trict under the proposed minimum mini-mum program of education, said Supe. Ball, would total $192,028, compared to the anticipated S183,200 expectable with receipts form state funds and local taxes for school support and maintenance mainte-nance in 1946-47 with continuance continu-ance of the present mode of fi- ' nancing. Taking the highest possible i levies under the proposed new plan which places the state as guaranteeing 75 per cent of the cost of maintenance and operation opera-tion of a minimum program of education involving an outlay of S3.000 per classroom unit per year property owners would pay a maximum of 16.8 mills to finance the school program, the I superintendent pointed out. If I the current methods of school LI financing were to be continued, ' property owners within the dis-t dis-t trict would pay a total of 17.7 mills to finance an equivalent education program. "There are additional benefits accruing to the taxpayer under the proposed new plan as sug-h sug-h gested by Constitutional Amendments Amend-ments No. 3 and 4, the superintendent superin-tendent pointed out. m 'The county property levy for . welfare purposes would be elim- inated. In North Sanpete school !mnisCt' thiS l6Vy amounts t 5 j "Further, the county levy for iroad maintenance would be all i but eliminated reduced from the current 2-mills to .6 mill" .the superintendent said. 1 Thus, the comparative total : levies for schools, welfare and 'Oads under the current and proposed pro-posed plans would be as follows: Present c , . levy Proposed School Levy - - 17 7 16 8 County Welfare Levy 5.00 0 0 Road Maintenance Main-tenance Levy 17.7 xq g !' Totals - - 24.7 17.4 Supt. Ball also urged adoption "H proposed constitutional A-mendments A-mendments No. 3 and 4 because the minimum program of education educa-tion thus facilitated would "guarantee "guar-antee to the district a stable source of revenue, i "State funds meeting 75 per ' -ent of the cost of maintenance land operation of the ra-nimiira ; program of education would be j assured And the educational opportunities availble to chil-I chil-I dren in the North Sanpete school ; district would never fall below the minimum standard set by the law. . . provided, of course, that voters endorse the proposed amendments. |