The Uintah School Board met
Tuesday night
and approved the 2018-2019 Fiscal Budget. The $82.1 million dollar budget was approved in a 4 to 1 vote. According to a release from the Uintah School District, $58.6 million dollars of that is for the operations and maintenance fund which includes employee salaries. The board also approved a new salary schedule for educators that includes a 13.46 percent salary increase that raises the starting salary for new teachers to $42,000 dollars. Uintah School District Business Administrator Derek Anderson reports that the budget includes a $1.1 million dollar tax cut due to an operating surplus from conservative employee spending and additional decreases in property valuations from the previous year. “Because of the valuation decrease and the way property taxes work, the Uintah School District is electing to provide the county taxpayers a rebate this upcoming year to help with the decline in values,” shared Anderson. “We are cutting taxes. We could levy those taxes this year because we can set the rate up to the one approved by the voters but we are electing not to do so in order to help our citizens.” The new fiscal year
starts July 1st.
