Publication Date
5-24-1968
Document Type
Report
Subjects
Urban policy -- Oregon -- Portland -- Periodicals, Portland (Or.) -- Politics and government -- Periodicals, Portland (Or.) -- Social conditions -- Periodicals
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/15304
Recommended Citation
City Club of Portland (Portland, Or.), "Report on School District No. 1 Tax Base Proposal (School Measure No. 4)" (1968). City Club of Portland. 571.
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/15304
Notes
School costs are increasing at a faster rate than revenues and are slowly disabling the Portland schools. Unless the present $33,427,442 tax base is updated to 1968 costs, Portland children will be deprived of needed education available to other children. At least $43,302,442 annually is required to reverse the trend and enable Portland schools to do an adequate job of education. $43,302,442 can be raised by an estimated maximum levy of only $13.28 per $1,000 of true cash value of taxable property, compared with an average $17.78 which surrounding school districts' taxpayers are now paying to operate their schools. Accordingly:
Shall the present $33,427,442 tax base of School District No. 1, Multnomah County, Oregon, be updated and reestablished for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1968 in the amount of $43,302,442, at an estimated maximum total levy of $13.28 per $1,000 of true cash value of taxable property?
Published in City Club of Portland Bulletin Vol. 48, No. 48