Show school budget okayed Zt E ES IB LEAD CHAMBER OF COM-iCE Elroy posed with new officers fol-ig the annual of the chamber for a In the photo are Mont executive Keith retiring Calvin new president and Merrill Teachers get Kindergarten is suspended When the Duchesne County Board of Education last June adopted a budget for the school they realized the district faced one of its more serious financial and teacher problems in the county's The new budget is above the one Duchesne County operated on the past year which was Higher assessed valuation is responsible for the slight ANOTHER DECISION the board agreed on Friday was an the increase of per year for every teacher in the This raise is in addition to the normal increment teachers receive who remain in the local school This proposition met the approval of the Duchesne Teacher Uintah County recently gave their teachers a flat This announcement came from Orlando B. following the special board meeting on June WHEN VOTERS of the county recently defeated a proposed leeway proposition that would have given the board power to levy additional taxes to keep pace with constantly increasing cost of the school board was faced with effecting other economies to offset the higher costs of operating the schools during the next Defeat of the leeway proposition left the county with a teacher shortage of 20 or more instructors for the coming There is still the proposition of replacing others who might leave the Some rather drastic and undesired decisions were arrived at by the board to keep costs in line and still operate efficiently as a school ABOLISHING A full-time kindergarten which had offered instruction the past several years to five-year-old children in the district was one of the first changes to be Although very little money will be saved by the county in this the district was able to pick up approximately teachers that can be shifted to other areas where a teacher shortage Summer kindergarten will be offered in the summer of with hopes the full-time idea can be restored later Curtailment of a sum mer maintenance program and cutting transportation costs are alos areas where the board will try to save a little money to help ease the financial STATISTICAL information released by Merrill relating to the cut-back of the reveals that very little actual cash will be saved by the district the advantage being only to shift teachers in this department to other Loss of State funds through a reduction of about one and one-half distribution units will save the district only about for the Thus the economy is a bit but a teaching problem was MERRILL quieted rumors last week at a meeting with the Education Committee of the Roosevelt Chamber of Commerce that the Industrial Arts and Remedial Reading programs at the Roosevelt High would be See SCHOOL back page School Budget from page curriculum is set up with the Board of Education In such a maner that industrial arts is a and the reading program is financed by other state so rest assured that these classes will still be taught at Merril It Is proposed to collect the local taxes on the same levy of figured on estimated million assessed with 98 per cent collection Estimated receipts from local levy for are or more than the past THIS TAX is anticipated from a mill levator current from a mill levy for debt Instruction costs are increased from to which allows increment and across-the-board raises of to A SUMMARY OF the budget shows administration costs at compared to last Instruction compared to health services the same at transportation compared to operation of plant compared to maintenance of plant fixed charges compared to community service compared to public summer school home agricultural pro i me same at student activities cut from to making a total current expense of compared to last Capital outlay is increased from to debt service decreased from to and the school lunch fund remains at INCLUDED IN THE budget for the Duchesne County District Is for the small high schools project for this This is in connection with the program at Duchesne and It is the program which former Rowan C. Stutz is director and is financed by the Ford This amount of is included in the anticipated receipts of the OTHER RECEIPTS for the district are anticipated as from the state uniform school fund compared to last local property tax compared to last vocational educational fund same as last driver same as last federal funds for current expenses from Public Law and forest reserves at compared to in for other including from adult transportation building sale of miscellaneous CAPITAL OUTLAY and debt service income is anticipated at from the mill from the state building funds and from the National Defense Education The school lunch fund is calculated on receipts of from federal from state from sale of and from other |