Peninsula School Areas
Listed for Reorganization
Two areas on the Kertai Pen
insula are among the ten proposed
for incorporation as second class
organized boroughs by the State
Board of Education. They are:
Homer-Ninilchik Borough and
Kenai-Solotna-Kasilof Borough.
Approximately all of old District
10 was included for incorporation
in the Greater Anchorage Area
Borough.
Sehiovia and Seward were clas"
-ed among the areas to be des
ignated as city school districts.
Draft legislation for reorgan
ization of Alaska’s public schools,
as recommended by the 'State
Board of Education, proposes the
establishment of three types of
school organizations.
First - Either first and second
class organized boroughs to be
known as borough school districts,
sehool districts, or local schools.
Second - School organizations
within cities, to be known as city
school districts, school districts,
or local reboots, and;
Third — Schools operated dir
ectly by the state, to be known
as state schools or rural schools.
Standards for schools will det
ermine the type of school organ!"
zation to be adopted. Areas meet
ing standards for incorporation
of an organized borough would be
incorporated as second class or
ganized boroughs and be borough
sehool districts.
Any area not meeting stand
ards for incorporation of an or
ganized. borough but meeting
standards for school districts, and
containing a city would be a city
•chool district.
Schools in unincorporated areas
and political subdivisions not
meeting standards for school dis
tricts would become state schools
The sehool reorganization bill
was drafted within the frame
work outlined by the Alaska Con
stittmon.
The Board is of the opinion
that those areas within the state
whetiier presently incorporated as
school districts or not — which
have a sufficient tax base and a
school population should be re
quired to do so either as borough
school districts or city school
districts.
It was expressed by the Board
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that areas which snouia oe oor
ough school districts should be
given every opportunity to in
corporate as first or second class
organized boroughs voluntarily.
If such areas do not incorpor
ate by Jan. 1, 1963. the board is
■recommending to the legislature
that action be taken to incorpor
ate the boroughs manditorily by
July 1, 1963.
The Board saw no need to
recommend mandatory incorpra
tion of any’ city school districts,
there being no areas in Alaska
requiring this procedure.
Some of the smaller school
districts will be dissolved under
the Board’s recommendations, and
some of the existing city and
independent school districts will
be enlarged.
Under proposed borough legis
lation the second class borough
will be incorporated by the state
and not by the voters.
Tentative boundary’ lines for
proposed organized boroughs are
include* in the draft bill, They
are, however, subject to refine
ment before actual incorporations
are undertaken.
The proposed financial pro
gram states in part that it is
intended to “assure substantially
equal public school educational
opportunities, through a founda
tion program for those in at
tendance in public schools.'-"
The Board of Education recom
mends that the financial pian
be treated as separate legislation
and enacted by the 196*2 Alaska
Legislature, pointing out that
while it is important to school
district operation it is not de
pendent upon school district
organization.
Tax Time
The new Parmer’s Tax. Guide is
available now at his office in. Ho
mer, according to Ed Liebenthai.
district extension agent.
Farmers getting set to fill out
their income tax forms will find
the rules are still the same, but
the tax forms are slightly differ
ent. A new two-page 1040 form
replaces the old four-page farm.
Farmers also must file form
1040-F to report their farm in
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