BUCCI DONIATONIACDONI-CIOWNIMACIONICCIONIMAIIONICIONICCACH ver Oys oy | ORGANIZATIONS THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF WEBER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, WEBER COUNTY F UTAH, SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT TAX AND TAX ANTICIPATION NOTE ELECTION HELD IN SAID DISTRICT ON TUESDAY, THE 2ND DAY OF MARCH, A. D. 1926, ! OFFICIAL BALLOT Question submitted: “Shall the Board of Education of Weber County School District of the County of Weber, State of Utah, be authorized to raise the principal sum of: Three Hundred Thousand ($300,000.00) Doldars for the purpose of raising money for purchasing a school site, for the building of a school ; 5 & In favor of foregoing Question ..........ccccccccccseeceeceeeg seceseeeeee Vote... YES Against foregoing question Vote X NO (Each elector shall indicate his vote on the questicn submitted. by making a cross (X) opposite the group of words which expresses his choioe.) HEN it became evident that, because of small population and limited taxable property, only a few of the towns in Weber County could maintain graded schools, a few adjoining towns joined forces. This was the beginning of consolidation. Expanding the idea still further, Weber County became a consolidated school district by action of the board of county comissioners in June 1905, it being one of the first in the state to take this progressive step. This gave Weber County the much praised “county consolidated unit” system of education which tends to give these advantages in education: 1. Equality of opportunity for all students. 2. Better graded schools and better class-room instruction. 3. More economic administration by means of a business-like organi- zation. 4. Better supervision and standardization of methods. Marking the climax to consolidation 1 a) 5. Greater progress and fewer failures. was the affirmative vote which made possible the building of our high school to which students from every town in Weber County come for instruction. ‘ | se | e x¢ (C94 INDIES DIC IAM DIC INE DIC IAN DIC IAN DIC IAAL SEPM CHAM IIE L SANG S)ye (S C94 ING) iCIA 7 WE DIC IMA IC MUN IC IMAL DIC IAIN DIC IANS) ‘ “Shall the Board of Education, for the purpose of raising said money be authorized and empowered to levy and collect a special tax in the year Nineteen Hundred Twenty-six (1926) in the sum of Sixty Thousand ($60,000.00) Dollars of the principal of said amount, and shall said Board of Education be authorized to issue and sell tax anticipation notes of the district for the purpose of raising the balance of said money, in the sum of Two Hundred Forty Thousand ($240,000.00) Dollars, said notes to bein denomination of One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars each, to bear interest at a rate not exceeding five per cent (5%) per ahnum, payable semi-annually, to be due and payable serially, Sixty Thousand ($60,000.00) Dollars on or before the Second (2nd) day of January, Nineteen Hundred Twenty-eight (1928), Sixty Thousand ($60,000.00) Dollars on or before the Second (2nd) day of January, Nincteen Hundred Twenty-nine (1929), Sixty Thousand ($60,000.00) Dollars on or before the Second (2nd) day of January, Nineteen Hundred Thirty (1930), and Sixty Thousand ($60,000.00) Dollars on or before the Second (2nd) day of January, Nineteen Hundred Thirty-one (1931), and for the purpose of retiring said tax anticipation notes and paying the accruing interest thereon, shall the Board of Education be authorized and empowered to levy and collect a special tax for the year Ninetecn Hundred Twenty-six (1926) in addition to the sum of Sixty Thousand ($60,060.00) Doilars for the year Nineteen Hundred Twenty-six (1926) hereinabove set out, a sum sufficient to pay the accruing interést upon said tax anticipation notes and to levy and collect a special tax for the years Nineteen Hundred Twenty-seven (1927), Nineteen Hundred Twenty-eight (1928), Nineteen Hundred Twenty-nine (1929), and Ninetcen Hundred Thirty (1930) sufficient to raise the principal sum of Sixty Thousand ($60,000.00) Dollars annually for said years, together with accruing interest on said notes; said levy and assessment for said tax to cover the amounts to be raised annually as principal and the interest thereon estimated not to exceed 314 mills for each year during the period specified herein.” 5 && CHAINDICISINDICISINDICIAING DIC Ii house thereon to be used.as a county high school and for supplying the same with turniture and necessary apparatus, and for improving the grounds, as follows, to-wit: DICIANAL ICI 41lARS) " D .