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Show To Duchesne County Citizens .... An Explanation Of The School Bond Issue The Duchesne County Board of Education has the opportunity to float a bond issue in order to comply with 1951-53 State Legislation, directed toward receiving re-ceiving some of the supplemental supple-mental state building assistance money for school buildings in Duchesne County. It appears that different individuals in-dividuals have varying opinions, so in view of this, the following article might be helpful: j During the regular 1951 session ses-sion of the State Legislature a bill was introduced and passed pass-ed appropriating $2,000,000 to be spent in needy school districts dis-tricts as supplemental building aid. Then again in 1953 another $2,257,000 was appropriated for the same purpose. However, in order to meet certain local requirements. re-quirements. One of these requirements calls for certain voting commitments commit-ments on the part of the people. After all, any school practice or legislative act involves the people, because they elect the board members and legislators. The following steps must have been taken or should be taken to qualify for supplemental state building aid: 1. A Board of Education must have requested a building survey, sur-vey, by letter, prior to June 30, 1951. (Duchesne School District has done this). 2. The Board of Education must agree to' answer and fill all forms submitted for survey purposes prior to the visit of the Supplemental Building Sur- vey Committee. (Duchesne School District complies). 3. The Superintendent must accompany the Building Survey Committee to each scshool while they are in his particular district. dis-trict. (This was done). 4. The Board of Education must pass a resolution pledging the district to levy for school building purposes, including levy for debt interest and cap-' ital outlay fund, a levy of at least twelve mills for each of at least five successive years, the levy to begin with the taxes of 1954 if your district has levied lev-ied this amount for school build, ing purposes in 1953, that year may be counted as one of the required years. (This is in force now). 5. The district must have ex hausted its legal bonding power for school building purposes, including in-cluding purchases of sites, erection erec-tion of buildings, and equipment for same. The present law requires re-quires assessment of property at fourth per cent of actual value, val-ue, the legal bond indebtedness limit is now assumed to be ten per cent of the present assessed valuation. Six school districts within state have already voted bonds at ten per cent of assessed valuation and have sold the bonds for a reasonable rate of interest. A district, therefore, in order to be safe in meeting qualifications, qual-ifications, must vote bonds for ten per cent of its present assessed as-sessed valuation. |