The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 4 October 1967 — Page 7

Wednesday, October 4, 194*

The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Page 7

League looks at the school tax rate

Last week Th* Daily Banner published the proposed 1968 tax assessment. Indiana requires that local property tax rates, based in this case on the budgets of the county, city (or township), library and schools, be published prior to the meeting of the State Board of Tax Commissioners in the local courthouse. The state tax commissioners annually review the budgets of the local governmental units and either agree to or cut the proposed rates. The Greencastle League of Women Voters has been studying our schools and consequently the school budget for the past three years. Members thought it appropriate to discuss this budget, which affects the tax rates in Greencastle City, Greencastle Township, and Madison Township, before

the State Board of Tax Commissioners meets in the Putnam County Courthouse later this month. The total property tax rate for those who live in Greencastle City has increased from $8.12 per $100 of assessed valuation in 1967 to a proposed $10.77 in 1968. Of this the county rate has risen from $1.17 to $1.56. Actually the increase might have been greater, but the old county school tax of $.25 has now become part of the general (school) fund rate. This change in procedure has no effect on the overall tax rate. If we remove the school tax rates from the city and library totals, we find the city rate has increased from $2.50 to $2.93, with the parks, the cemetery, and the airport receiving the largest percentage

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i increases. The League has not i studied nor is it prepared to , discuss these changes. We have, however, examined the school budget closely, comi pared it item by item with last year's budget, noted the increases and some decreases, and feel that the proposed raise in the school tax rate is not only desirable but essential. U n f o r tunately the $1.85 increase will cover only inflationary increases, additional state requirements for expenditure, and expenses of building improvements like the addition to the high school. Very little of it will provide new services. As the cost of educating a child in the Greencastle schools has risen ($62 increase in the past two years for an elementary child; $103 for a secondary student), the state has raised j its aid very little ($15 per ' child). Indeed the state has ! been unable to afford wide- } spread increases in school aid. I The last legislature set up a

comittee to study the state system of taxation, hoping to j make more state funds available to local schools in 1969. Meanwhile, the local systems must take the burden of increased finance upon themselves. Sometimes these increases are state initiated like i the summer recreation and the ; minimum teachers’ salary bills, which designated higher salaries but gave the local systems no additional funds with which to pay these salaries. The greatest single increase in the I Greencastle Schools budget is the $188,000 for instruction, | which includes teachers’ salf aries. The Greencastle Community Schools have budgeted very closely in the past and have not provided an operating balance. This policy has necessitated short term loans whenever emergencies arose; thus the school district has ended up paying not only principal but (Continued on Page 14)

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By BENNETT CERF-

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