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.
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"Nobody knows now what
happened. Similar charters
passed in two other counties.
"Here was a sincere, ear
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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
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on the voters," Dr. Kreisman
said, "but that couldn't have
been farther from the truth."
Equal Numbers
He recalled that t:ie com
mittee was composed in equal
number of Republicans and
Democrats.
Dr. Kreisman said that be
fore the election he and other
members of the charter com
mittee were subjected to what
he termed "dirty in-fighting."
"I pot letters and telephone
calls accusing me of being
a communist, a buddy of
Khrushchev, and other vici
ous things like that," he said.
Selby asked the group
whether another attempt
shcuid be made to put the
charter before the voters. 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. For one thing, the census
formula counts children be
tween 4 and 20. Most children
going to school are between
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Major Changes in 1962 Tax Form
On the federal tax form which you will fill out in com
ing weeks to report what you owe on your 1962 income,
there are exceedingly important changes resulting from the
major tax laws passed by Congress in the last session.
One involves the new 7 per cent investment credit which
is allowed for purchases of certain depreciable business
property in 1962. This is shown on a completely new line,
15 (c) on Form 1040.
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.
The retirement income credit computation schedule on
separate Schedule B has been revised to give you the higher
credit, lie sure, tnereiore, 10 gei me top savmn nue juu
through the new, higher credit by carefully completing this
revised schedule.
A third chance you will find on the 1962 tax return is a
new method of collecting any refund to which you may be
entitled.
In addition to having the choice of taking your refund
in cash or as a credit against your 1963 estimated tax,
you now have the choice of taking it in the form of U. S.
Series E savings bonds. All you need do is show your
preference in the appropriate space on line 19 of Form
1040. The government, incidentally, has a procedure for
auditing returns claiming refunds and understandably
chooses for audit those claiming the highest dollar
amount of refunds. If you're claiming a substantial re
fund and you are filing a declaration of your 1963 esti
mated lax. you well might prefer to take your overpay
ment as a credit against your estimated tax rather than
ask for a cash refund-and by asking just about guarantee
an audit of your return.
A fourth chanae in the 1962 form appears in the depreci
ation schedule on Schedule C. used to report on business or
professional income.
The depreciation schedule was altered to provide me lax-
payer with a choice of computing depreciation under the
Treasury Guideline methods (more on this In a later column)
or under the taxpayer's previous method-whichevcr saves
you more tax by giving you a bigger deduction.
A fifth manly significant cnange maao last year ooesn i
show up in the form itself. It's only in the Instructions to
the form. This refers to tne douDiing ot tne meaicai expense
ceiling.
In a column following in this scries, details on mis aouo-
ling will be spelled out, for the new coiling is of crucial
money-saving importance to taxpayers the nation over. In
brief, the new medical expense lax break permits you, as a
taxpayer who is not 65 or over and disabled, to deduct your
medical expenses in an amount up to $5,000 time your ex
emptions (not counting the special exemptions for blind per
sons or those 65 or over). Your deduction, however, can't
exceed:
(1) S10.000 if you arc single and not the head of a house
hold nor a surviving spouse entitled to income splitting, or if
i nrs a .i-nriArl nnrenn filing 9 spnarwlr. rplurn:
i2) $20,000 if you are a married person filing a joint re
turn, or a S'ngle person who is head of a household or a
surviving spouse entitled to income splitting.
If you arc a disabled person 65 or over, you can deduct
even larger amounts under the new law change. -
Next: Expense Account Deductions.
6 and 17. 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.
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