Show 1 pt didn't happen What might have been taxes Residents of Roosevelt would to pay an additional property tax of mills per assessed if amount of state aid provided to local units of government 1960 had been by a. local fact was outlined in a research report on state aid in completed by Utah the nonprofit tax research ACCORDING to the tion state aid to the Duchesne School District last year was equivalent to a mill local property tax State aid going to Duchesne County would amount to a mill property New total state am distributed to all units of government in Duchesne County last year amounted to or for every and child residing in the coun- 1 Test water in new tank Turning on tho water valve to test the new water storage tank being built by Roosevelt City are two members of the water committee for the Councilman Lynn and Lynn The tank should be In operation within a few so report city Duchesne County ranked among the 29 Utah Counties in the total amount of stale aid received per THE REPORT observes that financial aid totaling Hon was provided by the State j to 40 school 29 coun-i cities and during the 1960 fiscal I Nearly 90 of total state aid went to local school with cities and towns getting and counties of the In addition to the state money allocated to local report notes that the state collected and million in locally imposed taxes local sales tax and car and bus company plus million in Federal funds to local units during fiscal Direct Federal aid allocations to local units in Utah amounted to an additional million last total allocations by the state and the Federal Governments to local units in Utah was equal to amount was approximately 75 as much as was collected in local property taxes these local governments FOUNDATION analysts observe that between 1946 and state grants-in-aid Increased Utah and in the nation as a During the period 1940 through state aid to local govern-ments rose nearly in Utah and in the United The Foundation study attributes the expansion in state aid programs and since World War II the greatly stepped-up programs for the public schools and to the resistance has been built up against property A CONSTITUTIONAL question regarding the legality of some of the state aid programs in is raised in the The report points out that the Utah State Constitution states that legislature shall not impose taxes for the purpose of any or other municipal corporation to the Foundation the constitutionality of several of the state aid programs now operating in Utah 3 las never been tested in the courts of the 1 |