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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 10, 1963)
MfcD'OKD MAIL inioortt, MtUtUKU, OttbUUM oonVAi, mAin u iti Public Hearing on Budget for District 549C Friday A public hearing will be held next Friday, March 15, on a proposed budget totaling 55.061,057.07 for School Dis trict 549C for next year. The hearing will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Hedrick Junior High school speech room. The hearing time and loca tion have been changed from previous years in an effort lo provide a more opportune time and place for district patrons to attend the hear ing. Previously, the hearings had been held in the board room at the administration building late in the after noon. An election on the amount of the budget exceeding the 6 per cent limitation will be held between 2 and 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 3. What Budget Includes The $5 million budget in cludes the general fund, which totals $4,683,457, and the bond interest and redemp tion fund, which totals $377, 600.07. the total budget represents an increase of S427.278.75 more than this year's S4.633, 778.32 budgeted for general operation and bond interest and redemption fund. The increase, the budget committee noted, is equal to an estimated 11.5 mills, based on estimated receipts and available cash balances and taking into consideration pos sible state and county funds. However, if the 'assessed valuation should increase more than estimated, and ad ditional slate and county funds are made available, the millage increase could be re duced from the estimated fig ure by 4 to 7 mills, the com mittee pointed out. Assessed Valuation Base The assessed millage based on an assessed valua tion of $52 million, an in crease of $363,613 over the valuation this year. The ac tual assessed valuation will not be known until later, and could be more than what is estimated. The increase also could be reduced by an increase In state and county contribu tions. Just what these totals will be will not be known un til the state legislature and county court determine what each will provide to help off set the property tax load. Local property taxes carry the load of financing education, and in recent years have increased to a point where school adminis trators, school boards, and others interested in reducing property taxes are urging ad ditional support from state sources. Several bills concern ing financial assistance to public school districts are now being considered by the legislature. The budget committee has estimated that unless state support is increased, the amount which can be expect ed from state sources will equal about 30 per cent of the district's operating costs next year. Most of Education Cost Federal revenue sources will bring in an estimated l'j per cent of the total school operating costs. About 70 per cent of the cost of ed ucation is supported through local means, either the prop erty tax, or through county funds utilizing the O and C monies. The district's genera! fund budget of $4,683,457 for next year is an increase of $42B 165 more than this year's general fund. Of that total, $3,361,976, or 71.8 per cent, will go for instruction; $345,- 160, or 7.4 per cent, for op eration of plant; $260,755, or 5.6 per cent, for fixed charges; $234,639, or 5 per cent, for maintenance of plant; $211,105, or 4.S per cent, for capital outlay; $81.- 987, or 1.8 per cent, for ad- ministration; $119,535, or 2.6 per cent, for pupil transpor tation; $48,300, or .9 per cent. for auxiliary agencies and other expenses; and $20,000, or .4 per cent, for emergency fund. Six factors were noted by the budget committee as con tributing to the increase in general fund expenditures. They are: 1. The increase in the num ber of students. School admin istrators estimate there will be 9,050 students in the dis trict's schools next year, an increase of more than 300 over this year. About twice as many first grade students enroll each year as the dis trict has graduating seniors. This year's senior class totals 454; there are 816 first graders. Increase of Teachers 2. An increase in the num ber of teachers. The district estimates that next year, it will be necessary to add 14 teachers to the staff to help relieve excessive overloading and to staff new classrooms. 3. Salary increases for teachers. The teachers' salary schedule was revised this year to bring it in line with comparable districts in Ore gon. Budget committee mem bers pointed out that this will allow the district to at tract and hold more compe tent teachers. 4. The increase in cost of supplies, equipment and ma terials. School administrators noted that these items have the budget earlier this year, increased an average of 5 to 8 per cent. 5. Capital outlay increase. Funds are included in the proposed budget for five per manent elementary class rooms and six temporary teacher stations at Medford High school to take care of anticipated enrollment in creases. The budget commit tee, in including these build ing needs in the budget, be lieved it the most practical and advisable means of pro viding needed classrooms. During its consideration of the committee determined that a bond issue to finance needed classrooms was not advisable because of the amount of time required. Bonds could not be voted on and sold in time for new classrooms to be constructed by next September. If classrooms are not com pleted by the time school starts in September, the com mittee noted, some double shifting of students may be necessary. 6. Reduction of state aid. School administrators noted that there has been a con tinued reduction of state aid for schools, and unless the state adopts a more realistic policy of increasing state aid to match inflationary trends, local property has to assume the increased costs of financ ing education. The budget committee pointed out that it recognizes that "good schools cost more than poor schools; however, surprisingly little more. The evidence is conclusive that states and school districts which Invest the most money in education have the best school programs. A school dis trict is often evaluated as to its record of keeping students in school to high school grad- uation, by its academic , achievement records, and through its vocational prepa ration results." j Budget committee members ! said the proposed budget may be considered an austere one, pointing out that "each pro posed expenditure has been carefully examined in the perspective of its relationship to the over-all educational ob jectives of the district and in terms of wise economy." II When and If" WHEN . . you hava a flat lira, dead battery, mechanical trouble, need a tow IF you are an AAA member. An AAA Service Truck will come to your aid from up to 10 miles away when you phone the nearest AAA Emergency Road Service station. (Complete list of 18,000 AAA stations furn ished members.) (Substantial Savings even over 10 miles away with AAA). "If doesn't COST ... if PAYS to belong to AAA!" Oregon Stale Motor Association Wallace Shaffer 1133 So. Riverside Medford Branch Office 773-3651 AUTOMATIC Transmissions Exclusively Minor or Ma lor Repairi Factory Units in Stock 100 Financing MEDFORD TRANSMISSION REBUILDERS 1910 Table Rock Rd. 773-7748 . Fast Efficient Service Across From Biq Y Market Excess Social Security Taxes May Be Refunded If a person has worked for two employers during 1962, he may be entitled to have excess social security taxes paid refunded, according to Edward B. Jacobson, district manager of the Social Securi ty office in Medford. In 1962," he said, "you as an employee had 3's per cent of your earnings up to the first $4,800 a year deducted from your wages by your em ployer. Your W-2 Form should show no more than $150 de ducted from your wages in the FICA (Federal Insurance Contributions Act) box even if you were paid more than $4,800, the maximum credit able for social security." Coin-Op DRY CLEANING Here's the answer to high cleaning bills for only $2 (8 quarters) you can save as much as $5 per load. It's easy to op eratetry it today. Coin-Op LAUNDRY Eliminate those all-day laundry sessions. Use our big double load washers and dryers. Your clothes will be fresh and bright as Springtime. Do all your wash at one time and savel WaSll (2 dimes per load).... 20C Drv 10c Dry Clean ',T.r$2.C0 Your Coin Operated Dry Cleaning Center OAKDALE LAUNDROMAT Located at 11th and Oakdalc Neil to Oahdale Market -sssasj.-n, LAUNDROMAT -STEWART HUMUS' Jacobson pointed out that if a person worked for two or more employers du ing the year, and the amounts in the FICA boxes on all of his W-2 Forms add up to more than j Slou, the person has some money coming back. The tax rate for a self-employed person for 1962 was 4.7 per cent .of the first $4,- 800 of self-employment earn ings. Even if, because of a large number of depen dents and small earnings, the person does not owe any income tax, a self-employ ment social security tax must be paid and a return filed if the net earnings exceed $4U0 for the year. Self-employed individuals should give complete answers to all of the questions on Schedule C-3 and the Sched ule SE attached to the bottom of Schedule C-3, Jacobson said. The district director of In ternal Revenue detaches the bottom portion after he de termines that a correct tax payment has been made and sends it to the Social Security Administration in Baltimore, Md. "There," Jacobson said, "it becomes a permanent part of your social security earnings account." It will one day be important in fixing the size of the benefit checks under social security. Ashland Businesses Improving Property Ashland - Several Ashland businesses are remodeling and improving their property and others are moving to new locations. Conklin Fuel company re cently purchased the building at 111 Oak St., which is being remodeled to accommodate the c o m p a n y's downtown business office and a job printing establishment. Com pletion is set for mid-March. Whitland Locke is in the process of equipping photo graphic studios in the Pioneer building on East Main st. ad j jacent to the city hall. Locke, I who is a piofessional free j 1 a n c e photographer from southern California, said the i studio will handle sound and i motion picture production as : well as portraiture, j Also in the remodeling proc- ess is the White House Mar kct, 372 East Main st. The owner, Dale Kacgi, said that work will begin soon. The Grubcr Shoe Shop has moved from the Provost build ing on East Main st. to the Knox building on the Plaza. II I -.rS.'.f tit. SS Medford Youth Is Held on Charge Hallctt Howard Anderson, 19. of 611 West 10th St., Med ford, is being held in the Jackson county jail on charges of entering a motor vehicle with intent to steal, sheriffs deputies have re ported. Deputies said the charge in volves breaking a window of a car belonging to Brian Lee Jefferson, 33 South Second 1st., Ashland, Thursday. 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