The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-07-11

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OF the teachers more than to any other
agency
In closing, 1 wish to express my thanks
TO every member of the board, the teachers
and the patrons for the courtesy which 1
Gave always received, and for the gener-
Gus support which has made it possible fcr
me 10 attain any success in my EFFORTS 10
elevate and improve the schools. Respect
fully. ]. E. MILLsPAUGB.
MIR. Pike read the following annual re-
port OF the finance committee:
SALT LAKE CITY, July 10. 1881.
To the President ana Board of Education of the
City of Sal: Lake,
GESTLEMEN:-ln accordance with the re-
quirements Of section l07, article 10, OF the
general school law, approved March 10,
1S@o. your committee on finance at this nrst
meeting of the board after the FIRST meet
Ing IN July, present the annual report OF
the business entrusted to 1t.
rirst-As the territory comprising Salt
Lake city was, by the terms Of the scnooi
law. made one school district, the AUDITING
committee (Which was afterward conson-
dated with this committeel was authorized
10 settle with the trustees of the old schooi
districts and receive the balances reported
on hand at the close of the school year end
ing June 80, 1890.
The total balances of eighteen school dis
tricts reported on hand amounted TO SlO,-
S63.26 The other three districts, Sixth,
Seventh and Twentieth, had no balance TO
report.
FIFTEEN of the eighteen districts paid
over 10 the board the sum OF S, 1884, the
remaining Sl,920.72 having been paid out
by the trustees of old districts for com
pensation Of trustees and various other
expenses incurred under their adminlstra-
ton.
Section 1l6 required this board to pay all
.f thn
old school districts.
All of these obligations that have been
presented certified and verified have been
allowed and ordered paid, and amount In
the aggregate, including the completion Of
the Fourteenth and purchase or the Nine
teenth buildings, 10 s3o, 64i45.
Special Taxes-For the purpose OF pay
ing these obligations, furnishing addi-
tonal buildings, etc, the old districts lev
ied taxes IN 1889, which amounted in the
aggregate 20 about $3.50. 000 At the time
these taxes were due and should have been
paid and turned over to the board, suits
were Instituted to restrain the collector
from collecting the same and only So C0
was ever paid into the treasury OF the
board on this account
The supreme court of the territory hav-
Ing decided against the collector, II is not
likely that any further sum will be realized
On this assessment AT the conclusion OF
thIs report we offer Recommendation IN
regard to this matter.
Appropriation-Unde the territorial 3
mill tax we have received the sum Of s39,
o63.74 en- account of the amount due Salt
Lake city school district; what the balance
due the district is, or when II will be paid,
we do not know, as the territorial auditor,
we are informed, has not as yet been able
TO make settlement with all the county col
lectors.
RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS.
The report OF the clerk shows the total
expenditures TO have been----------.sl5e.sS 7 81
While the receipts from all sources
are los, 4si 81
Showing deficiency as before stated
ol------------ ~o,osU no
There have been numerous extraordinary
expenditures arising from uncompleted
contracts that came to US from the old dis
tricts from Indebtedness of the same and
from repairs. rents, etc. 1t is these ex-
peuses that have swelled the aggregate
cost for the year. The actual current eX
pense proper has been but S9i, 234. %.
ESTIMATE FOR 1912.
To raise this $4,000, the levy made by
the board of n: mills on the dollar on
all the property IN the city was esti-
(U- proportion of the I. mills levied by
salt Lake county would be about $1,000
Territorial appropriation on mill tax
estimated about ----------------------- 1000
Total $1,000
We have also recommendation to make
in regard TO the manner of making assess
ments for school purposes.
BONDS.
BY authority of this board a meeting of
the voters of the district was ordered held
10 submit the question of issuing bends,
oOd rbls nOmm1ffPa phQrUad with tho
duty of attending to all matters pertaining
TO the electisn, all of which has been done
and fully reported to the board, showing
that majority of all the votes cast were
in favor OF issuing bonds to the amount of
500, 900, interest at per cent. per annum,
S450, 900 payable in twenty years, and $780,
0JO payable IN ten years, after which the
board instructed this committee TO prepare
form of bond, and ali papers pertaining
TO said election of school bonds TO be filed
with the county clerk. We were further
instructed TO have the bonds printed and
500, 600 twenty year bonds were ordered
sold, and we were authorized TO advertise
for bids for that amount
Your committee have authorized short
notices TO be inserted in two New York
papers, one each in Boston, Philadelphia,
and Hartford, Connecticut. Bids To be ad-
dressed 10 Board of Education, and TO be
opened at noon, August 10, 1891. We here
tucl lut OruST
the balance of the twenty year bonds to be
held in reserve, or so much thereof as may
be necessary for the purpose of refpnding
TO the taxpayers of this district all special
school taxes paid by them in 1890 that nave
been or may hereafter be paid TO this board
as soon as the governor and legislative as
sembly shall authorize this board TO do so,
AID that the $50, 900 ten-year bonds be also
held in reserve and not sold for at least one
year from date.
After congratulating the people on the
success of the first year OF free school, the
committee continues
RECOMMENDATIONS.
We respectfully recommend: THAT
the board as early as possible authorize the
purchase of additional sites, the erection of
buildings suitable for the different locali-
ties where mostly needed, and the enlarge
ment of present buildings where the sites
Are sufficiently large, or where more land
can be procured to enlarge them.
Eve recommend that the legislature be
petitioned to grant authority to the board
to refund to taxpayers the amount of taxes
levied in 1889, and which have been or NAV
hereafter be paid TO this board; ana thai
the law be amended, TO require trustees to
state the amount necessary for the school
year instead of naming the rate per cent
aad thereby avoid the collecting of greater
or less amounts than necessary as hereto
fore.
3-That the board appoint meeting in
the near future to consider these and such
other amendments as they consider neces-
sary for the more perfect Interpretation
and operation of the school law, and that
they invite other districts to co-operate