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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORO, OREGON ' TUESDAY. FEBRUARY S. 1963 j Oregon's Basic School Fund Budget Made of Make-Believe Figures Editor ( note: A revamp of I trict, just 27 miles away imof. Dublic erade and high, In the first nlare. if Hops i About 94 ner cent that is fi inH 17 rr n,o., n-u. ..... a lomt of Oregon's most-established money procedures has been suggested in a report by the legislature's own fiscal of ficer. This is the second of three articles on the subject. By ANN H. PEARSON Salem -dJPIu The Oregon Legislature is dealing with make-believe figures when it makes its biggest appropria tion of all, according to the legislative fiscal officer. The legislature appropriat ed $115 "per census child'' to the basic school fund for local schools during the 1961 62 school year. Actually, for a real child going to public school that year, the Hermiston School District received $199.62 from the basic school fund. The Pendleton School Dis trict, just 27 miles away in the same county, received $124.11 from the same fund for a similar child. Legislative fiscal officer Kenneth Bragg says it may be time for the legislature to stop dealing out school money blind. He says the legislature may want to take public school financing matters into its own hands as explicitly as it has the rest of the state's money matters. The basic school fund was created in 1946, when the voters decided state-collected taxes should help pay the cost of local schools. It amounts to an estimated S127.5 million for the current biennium, about one-third of all general fund money. Most of the fund represents the state's share of the cost of. public grade and high schools, offsetting the local property taxes that pay the balance. . The basic school fund is the only one left in Oregon's gen eral fund budget where the legislature makes a lump sum appropriation without saying how the money will be spent after that. It also is the only case where the legislature doesn't know exactly how much it is appropriating. The legislature doesn't provide a flat sum. It appropriates so much "per census child between the ages of 4 and 20." The final sum depends on the census. Bragg says the confusion is multiplied because the census has nothing to do with the way the money is handed out and distributed. Why Home Rule Proposal Lost Discussed at Chamber Lunch The ghost of the home rule controversy, one of the hottest local issues in many years, was raised briefly by two former members of the char ter committee at the Monday noon meeting of the Medford Chamber of Commerce Roundlablc. The committee members, Dr. Arthur Kreisman of Southern Oregon college, and Paul Selby, Medford business man, appeared on the pro gram in the absence of Mrs. Alice Rutter, who was called out of town. . Selby began by disclaim ing any intention of trying to breathe life into the mat ter. "We're not here to start a controversy," he said, "but rather we'd like a discussion about the reasons why the Voters turned the charter down by such an overwhelm ing margin." Dr. Kreisman seconded Sel by's statement. Other Charters Pass "We'd like to find out why For Fast, Efficient Service- Ship It LASME to or from Oakland, San Francisco, Los Angeles end Other California Points Call Jack Fitzgerald 773-7761 it was defeated," he said. "Nobody knows now what happened. Similar charters passed in two other counties. "Here was a sincere, ear nest group of citizens appoint ed by the county court to do a job. We studied the matter thoroughly, asked as many people as we could what they would like to have in a char ter, worked hard to explain the proposal to the voters, and then had the charter utterly repudiated by a three-to-one margin." The SOC professor specu lated on some possible mis takes the charter committee might have made in ttempt ing to inform the public about the charter and its provisions. "Did we talk to too many groups like this one, instead of to different sections of tiie valley's population?' he asked. Questionnaires Distributed Before the discussion, short questionnaires were passed out to the Roundtable mem bers in which they were ask ed to reveal their sources of information about the char ter, whether they had favored or were opposed to the meas ure, and what were the de termining factors that decid ed how they voted on the proposal last fall. The Roundtable members were at considerable varl ance with the county's voters. According to the question naires, they had voted 16 to 6 in favor of the charter. "Some had the idea that the charter committee was Whatever you're saving for... ...where you save does make a dirlerence. Join the many people who save with us for ".s piofit and safety. 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A show of hands favored an other try. Against Details One Roundtable member said he felt the people had voted "against details" in the charter, thai it needed to be more simply written. "How do you write a detail less charter?" Dr. Kreisman asked in return. Another member s ggested that opponents of the charter had appealed to the emotion rather than the reason of the voters, and yet another per son said he felt people had connected the building code with the home rule idea. At the end of the program, Selby asked how many in the audience would be willing to work in behalf of the charter should it be proposed again. Only one hand was raised In the first place, it does not even all go to the dis tricts. The State Department of Education skims off its operating costs. So do some special programs. The gover nor wants to include educa tional television. About 94 per cent that is left does go to schools, but not on a per-census-child ba sis. 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Thousands of business and professional men will find this new credit is giving them an unanticipated tax cut, for the credit is to be taken as a straight reduction in your tax, not just as a deduction from taxable income. It's almost the equivalent of a cash rebate. But if you are entitled to the credit, you also will have to fill out and attach a Form 3468 to your Form 1040. More on this in a later column. Another change results from the fact that Congress gave many retired individuals a substantial tax cut by raising the retirement income credit in 1962. This boost in the retirement income credit can mean saving of up to $114.80 for you, as an individual, on your 1962 return. If you are a married man and you and your wife are both entitled to a retirement income credit, the 1982 tax cut can be even greater. 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Of these, manv are n parochial schools. Thus there are fewer children, or more moncv Der actual nnhlir school child. Small sums ea in Histrit-ts on the basis of growth and transportation needs. Special Programs Districts with special pro rams for handicannpd. irifi. ed, migrant, and retarded chil. dren get special help. Of the bulk of the mnnpv that is left, 80 per cent goes to the districts on a "per weighted pupil" basis. That means per pupil, except a lit tle more is added for high school students. Then 20 Der cent onr-s fur equalization, to make sure each child gets an eaual edu- cational opportunity. Equali- zauon is oased on the true cash value of DroDertv in i-nrh district. In other words, thp nnnrrr districts get more than t h e ricner ones. To nut the whole thino in terms of Hermiston and Pen dleton, each gets $104.63 in flat per pupil grants. But Pendleton, with true cash value of property at $29, 613 per pupil, get no equaliza tion, while poorer Hermiston, with true cash value of $10, 806 per pupil, gets $82.39 per pupil equalization. Pendleton nets S6.R4 npr pupil for special programs for the gifted, mentally retarded and curriculum improvement. Hermiston eets onlv an an fnr the handicapped and curricu lum improvement. Pendleton sets $13.12 fnr transportation and $6.36 for growth. Hermiston gets $10.65 and $1.95. Brags suggests that the Ice- islature . abolish the hasic school fund. Instead, he savs. the cais- lature should make fliil. spiv arate appropriations for aid to local schools, the Depart ment of Education, and each of the special programs. ThCn. SaVS RraLTr thrs bur. flhou nrn 4n;nn ,.iV.nM . r 1- i ... . ... - .:, , "-j ""nig v.. mi me; uy ainuuis, anu win oe aole to makers will know just what propriate money for public I do what they intend. Our early morning flight to Portland... 1 14 ijt tSrri) iT---'.' 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