At-a-Glance Iowa Tax School Aid Package Details
Des Moines AP outlines major provisions of a state tax boost and school aid package. Key items include a flat 300 per pupil grant plus 360 per pupil in basic tax levy with a 0 to 50 mill cap, 30 mill shortfall covered by state funds, and a limit on district spending tied to state revenue growth. The plan also raises the top income tax rate to 14 percent for over 50,000, projecting about 72.3 million in new revenue for 1972-73, with protections and referenda measures on district surtaxes, plus improved funding for cities and counties and a tax loophole closing estimated to add 5 million annually.
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Des Moines
Tawa House
Textra
Revere
Iowa
Iowa School Board Merits Pay Survey Findings
Iowa school board presidents favor merit pay based on performance over tenure, with views split on bond passage thresholds. The survey of 356 presidents shows most see teacher unions influencing boards, and a majority support state aid at 40 percent while local funding remains key.
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Iowa
Iowa City — School Board
Board of Education
Town State Education Assn
New County Nurse Hired for Clayton
Clayton county board of health hires Mrs Harold Kuntz of St Olaf as county nurse effective soon. She previously served as in service education director at the Elkader and Postville hospitals. The county nurse coordinates with area physicians dentists sanitarians hospitals welfare agencies and organizations to meet Clayton county health needs.
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Clayton Elkader
Clayton County Board of Health
Harold Kuntz
St. Olaf
Messerly retreats on pay freeze for state workers
Des Moines Iowa Senate Appropriations Chair backs down from freezing salaries above 15040 a year to cut spending. Senator Francis Messerly warns university budgets could still face about 14 million in cuts if the plan proceeds, with regents facing a 14 million hit and potential further reductions beyond salary freezes.
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Earlflowers Des Moines
UPD
Senate Appropriations Committee
Francis Messerly
Cedar Falls
Messerly
Robert Ray
Lucks
Board
Sok Regents
Ray
Regents
Manuer
Legislative Notes by Frank Nye in Switch
In a Senate debate farmers resorted to erred farm language, prompting Sen. Arthur Neu to urge that agricultural disputes be settled in the agriculture committee and spare lawyers from technical terms. Sen. J Wesley Graham and Sen. Charles Laverty, both Republicans, were the farmers involved.
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Frank Nye
J. Wesley Graham
Ida Grove
Charles Laverty
Indianola
Senate
Arthur Neu
Carroll
Agriculture Committee
Legislator Proposes Daily Salvation Army Newspaper Recycling
Rep L W Kehe of Waverly says the Salvation Army will pick up discarded house newspapers daily for recycling into usable material. He notes clean papers can be repurposed and sent to the organization.
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L. W. Kehe
R-Waverly
Ralph Lancaster
Salvation Army
Kehe
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