Show SHOULD WE REDUCE VALUATION in the regular june meeting ol of our county board a plea came up from the state farm bureau tax com committee cittee to reduce valuations in sevier county and without taking any definite action the county commissioners ners have the plea under advisement vi none of the commissioners committed himself as to what he thinks about the proposition position but it looks like the petition will be pigeonholed and we think that even those for whom the tax committee is supposed to work our farmers will consider it wise to let things well alone and not to make radical changes assuring the valuation would be re reduced what would be the consequence the requirements of state county cities and towns have to be met by taxation a certain amount of money has to be raised and it if the same amount of money has to be raised fron from a lower valuation its as from a higher one the only consequence can be that the levies will bo higher what therefore is the difference we cannot see any to their plea the members of the tax committee figure out the total tax collectable to be we do how they ar arrive rivia to figures but let it be correct then they figure that of this total 51 cents of each dollar go toward schools if this is correct the schools would receive a total of we kilow know that the school board is asking a levy of 85 mills for the schools and we further know that the total assessed valuation as it now stands w will ill be about 12 million dollars eight and one halt half mill of twelve millions make only meaning the schools will receive less than the total committee estimates so there must be something wrong in the tax committees fig ures and now let us consider the needs of the schools every tax payer in the county knows or jor ought to know that the board has a hard struggle to make both ends meet can we give them any less than they are going to receive think of the SL school hool building in venice that was condemned several years ago and still has to be used because the board has not money enough to build a new one think of 0 the salina high school not having a gymnasium think of the gymnasium the richfield Richtie ld high school needs after water seepage has ruined the one we had think of the needs in the monroe high school think of the fact that the junior high classes in koosharem Koo Hoo sharem have to be held on the stage of tho the amusement hall because there is no building available think of the children in the richfield Richtie ld grades who are without the necessary playgrounds because there is no money available to buy the lot west of the school buildings think of all these and many other things and after you have thought of them are you still of the opinion that the board can do with less mon money ey 11 this is just justene ju stone ane li instance of what va 1 would happen if W we continued reducing altho ut thinking of f tle the consequences our 0 opinion anion is we should not act like ahe foolish vii virgins |