the district has spent $17 million and encumbered another $3 million. Of this amount $4,932,821.54 will have been provided by the Federal Government under Public Law 815. At the present time the district is using 59 makeshift rooms. In addition we have no winter kindergarten which would require an additional 45 classrooms. Considering the need to eliminate makeshift rooms and to re duce overloads in regular classrooms, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in Washington, D.C., officially approved our district as having 3,184 unhoused students as of March 9, 1962. Since that time the number of federally connected students in the district is considerably greater than the number approved for the spring of 1963 in our last application under Public Law 815. Five hundred housing units are now being constructed at Hill Field under armed services housing project, fiscal year 1962.

Davis District is now bonded to the legal limit of 13% percent of the assessed valuation. However, since our district has one of the lowest assessed valuations per child in the State of Utah our sources of local building funds are greatly limited. Therefore, Federal funds under Public Law 815 are vitally needed at one of the most critical times since the end of World War II.

The Davis County School District has qualified for a grant of $891,480 under Public Law 874 for the school year 1962-63. Without this money it would be impossible to carry on an educational program comparable to other areas of the State.

It seems urgent Public Laws 874 and 815 be immediately extended so that our 1963-64 budget can be adopted with the assurance that the usual Federal funds will be forthcoming. An immediate 1-year extension would be most de sirable if there are complications to be ironed out before an agreement can be reached on a longer extension period.

Since most of these districts are making the maximum financial effort to meet the demands to provide satisfactory facilities, good teachers, and a good curriculum, we shall appreciate your support for an immediate extension of the program.

Senator Moss. Mr. Holt presents his case eloquently and well.

Mr. Chairman, an excellent case for adjusting Public Law 815, as I have suggested, is made in a letter from the Granite School District to the Senate Education Subcommittee of the Senate Labor Committee, a copy of which I ask to have made a part of the record of the hearings at the conclusion of my testimony. The report graphically presents the growth of the Granite District, the tremendous efforts the district has made itself to meet its school responsibilities, and the obvious need of educational assistance if Granite School District children are to be adequately housed in school buildings appropriate to their needs.

Senator YARBOROUGH. Without objection this statement of the Granite School District will be printed at this point in the hearings record. (The statement referred to follows:)

STATEMENT CONCERNING FEDERALLY IMPACTED CHILDREN IN GRANITE SCHOOL DISTRICT

The people of Granite School District have made heroic efforts in providing school buildings, yet over 8,000 of the pupils are on double or part-day sessions. In view of the rapid increase in school population and the use by the board of education to its full taxing authority, the district has been unable to keep abreast of building needs and has had to resort to some double session elementary schools and half-day first grade programs in all schools. Kindergartens are confined to 6-week summer sessions. Granite has the highest school tax rate in the State, and has gone to the legal maximum bonding limit for buildings.

Granite School District, the largest in Utah, covers an area of 300 square miles. It surrounds Salt Lake City on three sides. It is the "bedroom" of Salt Lake City and the area of several types of Federal activity.

Granite School District will double the school facilities during the next decade. A school population of 70,000 by 1968 has been forecast. Our census figures for

October. 1962, show the total number of children from ages 0-17 to be 76,763 compared to 71,025 for 1961. This is an increase of 5,738 over that of a year ago. The number of children on the census for 1959 was 62,116 and in 1960 was 67,004. The board of education is now planning a building program of $17,000,000, which will not house all of the growth.

The increase in average daily membership as noted (see p. 7) indicates a constant growth increase of 3,000 or more students each year from 1963-64 through 1967-68. The influx of population has been gradual and consistent. The growth requires an average of more than 100 new classrooms per year, which has built up a backlog of needs. It should be recorded that, for the next 5 years, Granite School District will need more than 100 new classrooms each year. Many of the schools are now seriously overcrowded. Granite has additional building needs of two junior high schools and six elementary schools in order to house the present enrollment. The district has had a substantial increase in the number of children whose parents are employed on Federal property, and whose membership directly results from activities of the United States carried on either directly or through a contractor. Presently, surveys indicate that there are 2.160 5(a)(2) and 2,516 5(a) (3) federally connected children in the school system. This fact in and of itself is conclusive evidence that federally connected children have imposed additional financial obligations on Granite School District.

The real educational burden to Granite School District is an insufficient tax hase to educate and house the increasing large number of children. This situation has been complicated and magnified by industries which have Federal contracts both in and out of Granite's taxing area. In fact, there are approximately 254 children whose parents have come into Granite District and who work at two installations, Sperry and Litton, that are actually located in Salt Lake City School District. Thus the present laws, 815 and 874, do not assist Granite School District for the education of these children. Furthermore, at Hercules Powder Plant, located in Granite School District, a situation exists where the parents of 217 children work on Federal properties and the parents of 1562 children work on company-owned properties. In fact, most of the workers on the company-owned properties are doing the same type of work as is being done at the Air Force Plant No. 81, a Federal property.

The Salt Lake area has been and continues to be an important military, governmental, and defense center. Approximately 15 percent of the total labor force in the Salt Lake area, of which Granite is a part, are Government workers. But be inmigrant Government worker families in Granite School District are young families with a larger number of school-age children than in a typical population

During the current year, 1962–63, approximately 5 percent of Granite School District's total children are federally connected, as defined by law. The children's parents are connected to approximately 24 Federal properties. This is an additional burden on an already narrow tax base which cannot meet the present needs of the district.

Local citizens do not object to carrying their fair share of the load and thereby atributing substantially to national defense. However, the local taxpayers, already supporting the highest school tax rate in the State, face an increasing problem because of a narrow tax base. In Granite School District, for example, the school tax dollar of 1962-63 came from the following sources, approximately :

The underlying philosophy of Public Law 815 and 874 is that the Federal Government, as a property owner, should pay to each local educational agency with furnishes education to children residing on or whose parents are employed Federal property, or by a company with a Federal contract, an amount per d roughly equivalent to the amount per child which other property owners parable communities pay toward the cost of educating children. Under * = principle, Federal payments to school districts should be more closely related → “te “burden imposed" than to the value of the Federal property. Granite subantes to this approach which would be more equitable both to the Federal Goverament and to the local school districts involved.

The real prolem in Granite School District is the burden of educating children whose parents work for private industries having Federal contracts and located outside the Granite School District taxing area. These children come to our schools and complicate an already overcrowded situation in a district which has an insufficient tax base to educate its children.

The Nation's strength in the crises ahead will be determined measurably by the quantity, quality, and the effectiveness of the education districts like Granite are able to provide their youth.