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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."
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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."
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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.
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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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