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Box Elder leaders press for collaboration as district readies budget, cites growth pressures
Summary
Box Elder School District Superintendent Steve Carlson told city and county leaders the district has a proposed budget and will hold an August truth-in-taxation hearing; officials discussed a 3,500-unit planned development, contracting a demographer to study enrollment, and how growth and incentives affect school planning.
Box Elder School District Superintendent Steve Carlson told a gathering of local mayors and city officials that the district has a proposed budget and will follow the statutory truth-in-taxation schedule this summer, and he urged intergovernmental collaboration as rapid growth and development put pressure on facilities and staffing.
"The school board did not ask the bond," Carlson said, correcting what he described as an erroneous local newspaper headline. Carlson said the district passed a proposed budget two weeks earlier and that the board could keep or change it after a public truth-in-taxation hearing in August. He also described a recent board decision on tax-related measures as an uncomfortable but necessary choice and summarized it by saying the board "ate the worm" with a 6-1 vote.
Why it matters: officials said major new housing and commercial projects, together with incentives such…
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