Wildomar School District, Riverside County, May 12, 1949-Continued Amount needed for furniture and equipment_ Amount needed for major site improvements.. $20, 000. 00 5, 600. 00 4,750. 00 Total furniture, equipment, sites.. Less total potential available for capital outlay. Total furniture, equipment, and land needs beyond the Duarte School District, Los Angeles County, May 11, 1949 Grade levels maintained____ Present average daily attendance (through seventh month)_ 30, 350. 00 500. 00 29, 850. 00 K-8 684. 49 Amount needed for major site improvements____ 70, 000. 00 40, 000. 00 Total furniture, equipment, sites.. Less total potential available for capital outlay 130, 000. 00 None ability to pay- Total furniture, equipment, and land needs beyond the district's 130, 000. 00 Possible capital outlay from regular budget_ Del Paso Heights Elementary School District, Sacramento County, May 10, 1949 Possible capital outlay from regular budget potential. Total potential available for capital outlay 18, 000. 00 Total furniture, equipment and land needs beyond the 0 18, 000. 00 40, 450. 00 15, 000. 00 17, 487. 00 72, 937. 00 18, 000. 00 54, 937, 00 South Sacramento school district, Sacramento County, May 10, 1949 Total furniture, equipment and land needs beyond the 54, 695. 00 10, 558. 00 44, 137. 00 Relation of current school-building need to maximum legal bonding capacity for 45 California school districts NOTE.-These data illustrate that the problem of inadequate local financing for school buildings is prevalent throughout the State. Column 8 shows for each district how many times greater the building need is than the local legal ability to pay. Trinity. Tulare Ventura. Yolo.. Yuba. Total sampling. Mr. EDGAR FULLER, STATE OF TENNESSEE, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, Nashville, April 18, 1949. Executive Secretary, National Council of Chief State School Officers, Washington, D. C. DEAR MR. FULLER: In your letter of April 12 you state that Tennessee is listed to receive $20,280 from the $135,911,090 in connection with Senate bill 834. It is my studied opinion that much more Federal aid should have been approved on the basis of applications originally made. As a matter of fact, the amount approved would hardly build two classrooms. On the attached summary, I am listing the communities which, in my opinion, should receive aid because of population influxes in the past which did not recede with the coming of peace, and because of influxes of population which are being brought about by both new and renewed activities. As an example of the seriousness of the situation, from a half to two-thirds of the children in Anderson County are being housed in makeshift classrooms. Both the Federal Government and the local people thought that a large percent of the new residents would leave with the coming of peace. This did not happen. Trusting that this information will be of service, I am Very truly yours, J. M. SMITH, Commissioner. DEAR DR. FULLER: I have your letter of May 16 to Dr. Thurston asking for information regarding school building needs. Last fall, prior to the session of our legislature, we requested local superintendents of schools and county school superintendents to give us information regarding immediate and urgent needs for classrooms only. We then made some computations as to the ability of the local districts to meet these needs and prepared a table, a copy of which is enclosed. You will see that we have divided the State into areas. One should read this table as follows: In the Detroit metropolitan area 44 school districts would not be able to meet their immediate and urgent needs for classrooms only with a bond issue which, including present indebtedness, would equal 5 percent of their equalized valuation. They would, in fact, be $7,017,440 short. Seventeen of these districts would still be unable to meet these needs with a 10 percent bond issue and would be over $1,000,000 short. Three of these districts would still be unable to meet their needs with a bond issue totaling 15 percent of their equalized valuation and would be $167,615 short. Fifteen percent of the equalized valuation is the legal bonding limit so that you can see, for the State as a whole, 179 school districts would be |