Show Foundation report lists effects to Duchesne District if law Had been in effect during 1959 Duchesne School District would have increased operating funds of or per distribution unit If the new school legislation enacted by the 1959 Utah Legislature had been in effect this This was one of the findings presented in a comprehensive analysis of the 1959 changes in i Utah's public school Under the new school finance Duchesne School District would be able to finance a maximum operating program of or per distribution unit without resorting to any further special According to Utah Foundation the actual funds for the operating program this year amount to or distribution Duchesne School District has approximately distribution units this One distribution unit is roughly equal to 27 pupils in average daily Additional units arc also allowed for isolated small supervisory classes for handicapped and summertime vocational agriculture and home In order to finance such a maximum program with out further the Duchesne School District would have to impose a local property tax levy of mills per assessed for Utah Foundation points out that the district imposed a total local levy of mills this year for school operating Could Happen The new law would permit Duchesne School District to maintain a school operating program costing up to per distribution if the voters were to approve the maximum allowable leeway in a special election held for that In order to finance this maximum school a local property tax of mills for operating purposes would have to be imposed throughout the Utah Foundation analysts explain that the changes made by the new school finance law increase the funds available for public school purposes by extending substantial additional state with no rise in the local effort needed to participate in the The new law increases the state-supported basic program from to per distribution unit for a local unit In the state supported supplemental program is increased from 12 to 15 to per distribution with no charge in the local levy to participate in this enlarged Per Unit The report notes that the total state-guaranteed program and under the new law will be per distribution compared with per unit under the present Foundation analysts note that the increased cost of the new enlarged school program will be borne also entirely by the Based on preliminary the State's obligation under the new school finance laws will be increased by approximately per year compared with continued operation of the present In because of increasing the State's obligations will rise by million a year during each of the next several Utah Foundation analysts emphasize that the extent of the cost effect of cumulative enrollment increases is not generally A cumulative increase of million per year in school operating requirements from enrollment increases alone confronts the the State with raising million in added school revenue for the This seeming anomaly becomes clear when illustrated in round figure if the state share was million in 1958 and million in the total for the current biennium is The total for allowing only the million increase for added becomes million and million for a biennial total of 70 million greater than the million required the previous No Corresponding Rise Utah Foundation's study indicates that despite substantial increases in the level of the state-supported school program during the last 12 there has been no corresponding rise in the level of the property tax to support the enlarged Between 1947 and the level of the state-supported school program has increased During this same the total state and local property tax to support the program was reduced The increased funds to provide for the steadily increased school program during the past 12 years have been provided largely by new taxes and by substantial transfers from other funds such as the general A total of was transferred from the general fund to the uniform school fund during the present biennium and will be transferred during the |