Smyrna times., 1920-03-24
.SUPT, HOLLOWAY EXPLAINS
SCHOOL BUDGET IN KENT
ERROR IN SALARY ITEM SHOWN
TO KENT COUNTY LEVY COURT
Salaries Come Out of State Fund and
Approximate Tax Rate In Kent
is $1.16 Instead of $1.22

10 pls1O lliSbCiu VI PAs%H
The school budgets for Kent county
published recently, showed the large
sum needed to meet the needs of the
school, and now H. V. Holloway, sup
erintendent of the schools, submits
the following analysis of the budget
of 1919-192O:
"First. 1t will De noticed that an
item of more than $1,000 is pro " l.
ed for under debt service This re-
presents the amount Of drht that has
been assumed this year from school
districts turning over Indebtedness
to the county over and above what
was received from districts turning
in balance. The next item under
the same head represents the possible
interest on the proposed bond issue of
100000 for building purposes, to-
gether with the interest charges and
payments made on account of bonds
outstanding to the amount of $4,920
issued for buildings at Frederick,
Cheswold and Viola. The interest on
these proposed bonds had been calcu-
lated for only six months. The sum
of these two items exceeds the
amount estimated for the year 1919
20 for debt service by more than
$4,000 which accounts for an in
crease of about 18 cents in the tax
rate, on the basis of an assessment of
eleven million dollars.
"Second. The amount provided for
teachers salaries for next year is
$1O,S50 in excess of the present years
budget. This accounts for an in
crease of about ten cents in the tax
rate.
"Third. The cost of tuition and
transportation and tuition of rural
pupils attending the seventh and
eighth grades and high schools of
the special districts was estimated
for the present year at $4,000. Ex-
perience shows that these items for
the coming year will amount to about
S32,500. This accounts for another
increase of fifteen cents in the rate.
Fourth. The following items. ap-
pear in the new budget for the COM
ing year, but not in the old budget,
and the lack of them in this budget
will account very largely for what
ever deficit the county board may
face at the end of the present fiscal
year:
Refunds and rebates on account
of taxes, delinquents, etc, $1,000; sal
aries of county treasurer and coun-
ty comptroller, 1919; expense of
school elections, $100; school census,
$3.50; industrial supervisor for col
ored schools, $500; libraries, $500;
contributions and contingencies. Col
lectors' commissions, blanks for as
SCISSORS and collectors, ETC., $4,000;
total, $15,179.
These items represent an increase
of about IA cents in the rate. TAX
ing the increases altogether, they
account for a 81 cent increase in the
tax rate. The whole amount of the
increase in round numbers is $685.
900, but the amount to be raised by
taxes for next year exceeds the
amount called for in this years bud
get by only $56,369. 1t will then be
seen that there have been reductions
in other items of the new budget
equal to the difference between these
amounts, or $13,531, which make for
a decrease of about II cents to offset
the above increases bringing them
down to As cents. Subtracting the
As cents from the proposed rate of
S1.16, we get back to II cents, which