School Chief Sees Full: Retirement. Pay for Employes The current budget session lished by the salary schedules, of the ‘Utah legislature appears|he said. to of be moving in the direction; However, the money, provided) paying the full retirement for the increments will be based| benefit for teachers in lieu of|on a formula aimed ‘at the as-| providing general salary sched-|sessed valuation of the average ule increases. ~. \district and Ogden actually will) That, in effect, would appear! have to provide more than $40,to settle the salary negotiations,000 from its own funds, Dr. question for school.employes im-|Garner: told board members. mediately instead. of making it; He said the district can prosomething which would carry|vide that amount without diffi-; over: into extended bargaining|culty by holding to its policy of) with} teachers new hiring not later in the year,. That was the report of Dr.)/more than three years’ experWilliam) L. Garner, superin-|ience. tendent, to the Ogden Board of| These. will. replace teachers jin many cases at the top of the Education Monday. evening. SAME MESSAGE ‘salary schedule andthe differ- : sence. adds up to a substantial: Dr. Garner carried the same saving, he said. message in an afternoon -meet-| ing in the High Ogden MAKE auditor-| THE BEST High Ogden Russo, Ralph ium to teachers and ‘other em-' teacher and president of the ployes of' the district. Association, | Education The board also rejected a|Ogden proposed program to. offer ski-|said the OKA and the Utah Eduing to senior high school stu-|cation Association both support ithe retirement cost assumption dents. Regarding port, the’ state the the legislative re-;by state the the “making as superintendent said best of a bad situation” in a now. is providing! year where finances are tight. funds to match retirement con-- Dr. Garner said: the district ‘could ‘“‘live with’ the -state’s| tributions by the employe. | | Picking up the other half of| financial settlement. the retirement cost would be} Board member Gilbert Mar-| approximately equal to the 5.5%|riott said the state, it seemed, increase in salaries permissible should find some formula under under federal Pay Board rules./which it could handle also: The. amount also would. not be'the increment increases. subject to state and federal in-|) come. taxes. 4 Dr. iwes|ferent Garner replied that dif-\ systems Dr. Garner called.it a ma- studied, all had but it appeared been| noth-| jor change of direction in state ing could be worked out which school financing. \wouldn’t be less beneficial to The state also will provide some districts than to others. se 3-2 VOTE funds for increment increases| : a. for teachers as they move up it might be setting an Afraid netah.| ner on; fhe gapberiqnee ladder‘ esta ‘undesirable precedent, the board irejected a-proposed mini-eourse | in skiing by a 3-2 vote. Board president George Bell’ had to cast the deciding vote after the other four board members ended with a 2-2 tie on the issue. Voting in opposition in addi‘tion to Mr. Bell were...board ‘members Leslie Norton and Glenn V. Holley. Counted in fa- ‘vor ‘were Gilbert Marriott and | Spencer J. Klomp. The vote followed protests and endorsements from several members of the audience, with the protests. in the majority. In presenting the mini-course plan for students at Ogden and Ben Lomond high schools, Dr. Gerald H. Raat, assistant superintendent in charge of cur- riculum, told board members he had discovered that skiing is an expensive sport but one immensely popular in the area. He said. the proposed course| would involve released time of| a full-afternoon once a week for those enrolled. | Dr. Raat said interest at the two high schools is high and a sufficient charge would be made ‘to make the pilot classes this fyear self-supporting. Selection of students would be ‘made on the basis of good rec- fords in punctuality, citizenship hand good standing in school, ‘and assignments in missed ‘classes would have to be 'made up.