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would possibly prevent decrease CIR
expense before next June.
The committee therefore ASKS for
further time to consider the question of
reduction of salaries of employees, until
the legal points involved can be passed
upon.
1t is further recommended that all
night schools, except the Cleveland,
Franklin, Monroe, Humboldt and High
schools, be closed.
This will effect an annual saving of
$500.
The committee further recommends
that, as soon as possible, all rented all
neXes be closed and The pupils now ac-
commodated in them be removed into
the new buildings and additions pre-
pared, and, beyond what is absolutely
necessary, no new rooms be opened.
1t is further recommended that no
more purchases of drawing material,
models. colOred papers. supplementary
reading, school apparatus. pencils or
other school supplies, except such as
are absolutely necessary, be purchased
for the next school year.
The estimated saving by the adoption
of this rule will be $4,000.
We further recommend that during
the next school year there shall be but
one Superintendent of Penmanship, at
a salary of $1,000; also that the sal
aries of the Superintendent of Drawing
and the Superintendent of Music be
$1,000 each. We also recommend
that the department of Domestic Econ
omy be for the present dropped.
The annual saving by the concurrence
of the Board in the four above recon-
mendationS will be $4,000.
The committee recommends that dur
ing the next school year principals of
buildings be paid according to the fol-
lowing schedule:
4-roOm buildings. ................S $50
Groom buildings ........ 900
and 10-rOOm buildings. .......... 1900
IL and 14-room buildings ......... 1,5O0
l6-room buildings. ................. l,600
Is rooms or over. .................l 1,SO0
This will effect an annual saving of
at least $3.50.
The adoption by the Board. at its last
regular meeting, of the recommends
tiOnS of this committee in regard to
abolishing the office of primary prlnci-
pals will effect an annual saving of
1850: making total annual saving of
ST 800 in the matters under the juriSdlc-
ton of this committee.
These changes have been carefully
considered. and while the necessity for
making some of them, which seemed
somewhat to impair the efficiency of the
schools, was regretted, it was believed
that with the problem before it of re-
ducing the expenses from $4,000 to
| 100000 annually, the recommendations
of your committee will 90 the least pos
sible injury to the conduct OF the
| schools.
We further recommend that, in ac-
nr6n ,xtsth I'M IF IL
ment which has been adopted by this
date, whenever the average enrolment
in any school falls below the proper
number, as determined by this Board,
that the Superintendent of Schools be
| instructed to close such rooms as may
in his Judgment be closed withoutinjury
| to the efficiency of the sch oolS; that
teachers so deprived of their positions
be retained at their regular schedule
salary upon the rolls of the school from
which they have been removed, until
they can be assigned to duty in some
other school. In the meantime they can
be employed as substitute teachers in
the schools, thus relieving the Board
partially or entirely of the expense now
attending the employment of substitute
| teachers.
| that the school year, which was short
ened a few years ago to thirty-eight
weeks. be again heightened 10 forty
weeks, without increasing the annual
pay of the teachers.
That part of the report of the Com
mittee on Schools referring to the Oc-
| tOber pay roll, which was presented at
| the last meeting of the Board and re-
| ferred back to this committee, is again
| presented to the Board in the same form
as in January. with the recommends
| ton that the changes therein stated be
made.
We would recommend that the min
utes of the meeting of Jan. be cor
rected by substituting the 9Th for the
9TH in the dates of the transfer of the
following named teachers, confirmed at
| that meeting:
Miss Virginia Buck, principal teacher,
| Sheridan school.
Miss l.. F. Williams, Third grade,
Douglas school.
Miss Mary Hanchett, First primary
| teacher, Sibley school.
Miss Olive Doolittle, First grade, Irv-
| ing school.
Miss Laura Bartlett, First primary
| teacher, Adams school.
Miss Anna Spates. Fourth grade, Irv-
| ing school,.
Miss Anabel Brash, Third grade,
| Hawthorne school,.
Miss Isabel Williams, First primary
teacher. Jackson school.
Miss Margaret Weinand, Third grade,
| Harrison school.
Miss Kate Smith, First primary
| teacher, Monroe school.
Miss M. g. O'Neill, Third grade,
| Garfield School,
Miss Margaret King, first primary
teacher, Humboldt school.
| Miss Lou Fowbe, First grade, Haw-
thorpe school.
Miss p. F. McGrorty, first primary
teacher, Lincoln school.
! Since the last regular meeting of the
| Board we have received the resignation
| Of Miss Victoria La Croix, teacher of
the Eighth grade, Slbley school, to date
from Jan. 10, and we recommend that
| the same be accepted
| We also recommend that a leave of
absence, without pay, be granted to
Miss Carrie Bregg, teacher of Third
| grade, Mcclellan school, to date from
Jan. "a until April 1, 1891.
We recommend that Miss E. A. lib
bits, teacher of the Fifth grade, Webster
school, be granted leave of absence,
| ",
the remainder OF the current school
year.
We have made the following transfers
and appointments:
! Miss Rebecca Allison. Seventh grade,
Sibley school to Eighth grade same
school, in place of Miss LaCroix, re-
signed.
Miss Gertrude A. Stoker, from "B''
First grade Sibley school to Seventh
grade same school, in place of Miss AL
lisOn, promoted.
Miss Bernie Forsberg, from Second
grade Cleveland school to First grade
Sibley school, in place of Miss Stoker,
promoted.
All the above to date from Jan. 10.
Miss Emily Walla, from Second grade,
Neill school. to Third grade Mcclellan
school, in place of Miss Bregg, granted
leave of absence