Reader comments
Plan for special session on splits thrills city officials

Jay | 10:42 a.m. Aug. 20, 2007

Many seem to believe that the capital funding is the only problem in splitting Granite School District. It is not! With the current proposals, Granite gets no help from the equalization schemes. In fact, they lose money.

Regardless, the key is operations money. This is the lion's share of the school district budget and pays for the day to day operations, like payroll, utilities, supplies, etc. This is the money that would be hurt by a district split. The feasibility study for Granite say that the new east side district would start $1 MILLION dollars in the red. Programs would need to be cut and class size would need to be increased to balance the budget. The remaining district would be in even worse shape. They would need to raise taxes but can't because of the statutory limitations.

These issues can't be solved by tinkering with islands and connectine corridors. In Granite's case it just shows how desparate certain groups are to make this happen at all costs.

Add your comment

Comments are monitored. Any comments found to be abusive, offensive, off-topic, misrepresentative, more than 200 words or containing URLs will not be posted.

Words Remaining

E-mail address: For internal use only. We may want to contact you to publish your comment (not your e-mail address) in the newspaper or for a separate story idea.