Show BUDGET DUCHESNE SCHOOL i T f for OR 1916 1917 disbursements borrowed money past due payment of teachers fuel school supplies salaries of board members 1140 salary and expense of superintendent perin 1560 salaries of clerk and treasurer postage stationary and j advertising interest on bond arid and float ing indebtedness incidental expenses 2000 j our portion of expense of running hayden school j receipts state apportionment children at 15 per capita F orest forest readi reserve ve fund 1300 6 mills regular tax on valuation of I 1 mill levy for bond interest on high school apportionment pupils at 14 1400 entrance fees forsigh for high school pupils 5 mills special tax special j election 4 22 duchesne utah april 4 19 16 we hereby certify that the above is our estimate of the receipts and disbursements feces j sary for the operation of the schools of duchesne county for the year beginning july ast 1st I 1 1916 and respectfully request the he honorable board of coun county j I 1 commissioners of said county to 0 make the levies mentioned above the five mill tax as soon as proper authority is vot voled ed by the he electors of said county J BOARD OF EDUCATION 1 duchesne county per H P ottosen Ott osell vice president attested ed F Har harmston inston SEAL clerk pu pursuant to the requirements of the school scho 1 laws of utah the foregoing estimate of the expenditures of the county school for the year 1916 17 was given to the board of county commissioners on which to base the school levy there seems to be some mis misunderstanding concerning 1 the purpose of the special five will mill tax to be voted on by the taxpayers of the county saturday the of this month louwill you will note that the first item of the budget under disbursements is is borrowed money this represents the floating indebtedness handed over to the central school board by the various local districts nearly all having contributed tri buted to tile the sum total of the debt it is for supplies long since used ur up text books furnishings and apparatus old warrants held by teachers for past services etc warrants of this kind unknown and u unaccounted nac count ed for are continually coming in some of them dating as far back as 1908 this debt is legal leg al d drawing from 8 to 10 pe percent reent awing interest terest ri and must be paid by the present school district and creditors are justly concerned about their pay referring to the tax notices or of 1914 15 we find that the county school levies for the several dis wets in the county were 20 to 25 mills fors fersne for duchesne ne myton roosevelt alexander antelope and hayden these six districts dist ri acts held an average of 78 months school with an increased floating indebtedness of over the previous year the other districts except fruitland froitland Fruit land levied 10 to 15 mills held an average of 65 months school and had an increased floating indebtedness of fruitland froitland Fruit land levied 10 12 mills held 8 Vs 1 months school with no increased debt except bonded this makes an average of 1523 mills for the alementa elementary ele menta ry schools of the county with an additional 75 mills for the high school or over 23 mills for all the schools school of the county for that year it will be seen also that the county had an average of 76 months school term the lowest 5 months the highest months with a total increased indebtedness elementary schools only of over the previous year these figures are taken from the report of last year the tax notices of 1915 16 show that mills were levied for the county schools including both elementary and high schools as against 23 mills in 1914 15 for 1916 17 the property valuation has been increased and bhe rate of taxation correspondingly decreased to 7 mills for nil all school purposes both elementary and high schools if we give these 7 mills times their for mer value on account of the increased valuation of the property we still have mills the same as at present in 1915 the schools which continued more that 7 months ec except ept fruitland froitland Fruit land were taxed ever 20 mills and fell behind six of the other seven reduced the length of the school term and were e still short a total deficit of in the schools of that year there were 56 teachers in all the 1916 17 estimate prod pro vides for 77 teachers in an increase of 21 and a full 8 months term for each school in 1915 the schools fell behind while the 1916 17 budget includes the payment of in debts which evidently cannot cachot be done without the five mill special tax or a corresponding shortening of the school term no institution can successfully continue to do business which either cannot or will not pay its bills the country needs a good commercial rating everybody can see the importance of such a condition in view then of all these conditions shall we vote the tax fax pay the debt land and retain our commercial standing 9 we must meet one of three conditions viz vote the tax and pay it cut the school term and pay it or let it go unpaid which shall it be every man every where should forget any existing prejudice weigh well and fairly the whole problem and then act as his best judgment directs remembering mem bering all the time that he must share the responsibility risibility of t the he final results whatever they may be be neither a knocker nor a kicker but free to give honest critic sm sin and suggestions for the betterment of all public interests te rests J A washburn Wash bum I 1 |