The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-08-20
THAT SPECIAL SCHOOL TAX.
What the Committee on Finance of the
Beard of Education Recommends.

What the COMMITTEES on Finance of the
Beard of Education Recommends.
The following communication has been
presented to the board OF education by the
committee on fnanoe aud will probably
come up at the next meeting:
When this board OF education was first or
ganized, in July, 1880, the most troublesum 9
question was that OF finances.
The boaId was given no means but nferen-
TALLY under the law it was supposed TO sue
coed TO the possession Of the anticipated re :
enue from the special taxation LEVIED in the
twenty one former school districts of the city.
But this taxa1itn was very unequal. ranging
from one-eighth OF per cent TO one and
quarter per cent. in those districts which had
made tax levieS; two districts had made no
levies OF all. Besides the evident inequality
OF probing for general benefit the revenue de-
rived in this manner further inequality ex
listed in the fact that some of the old districts
had yaluab Q properties paid Tor by the people
under the old local district system, Whine
others OF such districts not only had little or
nothing 10 turn into the common property &C.
count, out were OH the contrary, in deb. Yet,
the law made this bourd the recipient of the old
district debts as well as their assets, and the
question was, what could be done in the way
of adjustment. From the very first the board
saw the inequalities involved IN this coEsolida-
ton. realiziag them III much greater degree than
clu the general pO bic. IL also proved its earn
eStueso u ScoAAuB q icucuy- tuc IcCUIu Delug
as follows:
Aug 81, 1890. on motion OF Mr.. Williams the
finance committee was authorized to secure
counsel iii order that an equitable settlement
or adjustment may be had in the collecuon OF
the taxes at as early daJe as possible
4 1g. 2e, 1890, Mr.. Nelson moved that Il be the
sense OF this board that the burdens OF the
school maintenance as regards property rights
be eoualized, and that the committee on audit
le requested to report the proper form in which
the adjustment shall take place.
same date, it was moved by Mr.. Pike that
ii is the sense Of this board that the taxes as
sessed IN any local school district SO far as
practicable and necessary. shall be expended
ia such district until their actual necessities
for school buildings are supplied.
sept s. $780, the auditing committee In re-
Spouse 10 the above order of the D0aru. reported
as follows:
..hesoived, First. that we request all The out
going trustees to furnish q full inventory of the
school property in their districts. and aflix
thereto responsible and fair cash valuation
for the same and that the county collector be-
requested to furnish the net amount of tax to
be collected from each district in 1890 for the
purpose of aseertaining the total amount of
school property in the city and the taxes TO De
collected, in order that q uniform rate Of tar
car be computed, which it would be necessary
TO assess If desired, to pay Tor this property:
and that this committee be authorized to pro-
cure from the city assessor she total assessed
valuation OF property in the city, showing The
amount in each of the old school districts from
which to determine the proper proportion each
district should have supplied under a uniform
tax rate as above suggested
..Second-That each district be then charged
or credited. as the case may be- with tho differ
ence between the amount actually turned over