The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-05-06
NE SECURED A BIG RAISE
Superintendent Young Reelected
for Three Years With an
Increase Of Salary.
Trustee Miller the Only Member
Of tho School Board
Against It.
Proposed Settlement OF Claims Against
the New High school Building
Other business Transacted.

The trustees Of Helena school district, at
their regular meeting last night. reelected
hobsrt q. Young to the position Of princi-
pal OF schools for = term Of three years at =
salary Of $4,000 per snnum. The matter
came UP on the report Of the committee on
teachers and government Of schools, Who
recommended tbs acceptance by the board
OF a proposition OF Mr.. Young. Ths pro-
position was that he would continue III his
present position il elected for a term of
three or five years, and the salary made
$4,000. Heretofore ii has been 81, 800.
Trustee Miller askod il the board had the
right to elect Mr.. Young for more than.one
Year, and thus bind its SUCCESSORS. In three
years the board might be entirely changed
and it might also be desirable to make a
change in the office held by Mr.. Young be-
fore that time. He did not believe such
action would be binding on their SUCCESSORS,
and if it was, that was all the more reason
why 1t should not be done. The board
ought not to elect a teacher or q ~janitor or
9 superintendent for moro than ons year.
DR.. Miller said his experience was that il
q man were elected from year to year he
would do better work. II chosen for q long
oSAAA ~ "ouAA III IC uuA q 6A10 bAlAR
and perhaps not do SO we'll. He was not
finding fault with Mr.. Young, but thought
the schools might be graded and arranged
differently. The system was too expensive.
pr. Miller also objected strongly to the
$500 increase in salary. In the present
financial condition Of the district, which
would have to borrow money to carry the
school along until the first Of tho year, he
thought il wrong. The salary Of s 5000 was
equal to that Of superintcndsnts in the
large cities. The board could get plenty OF
supsrintsndents at $2,5 500 to do juat az good
work ns Mr.. Young. tt Mi. Yonng's salary
was increased others would have the right
to ask the same. In reply to a question DR..
Miller said Mr.. Young was elected for two
years before.
Trustee Cox said that he himself did not
approve Of ~elscting for long terms. But
MIR. Young's proposition was to take the
place for a term Of three or five years. and,
as he understood it. this board had only to
accept Or reject. He thought it we'll if the
board had n good superintendent to elect
him for a term of years.
Chairman Langhorne thought tho condi-
ton Of the schools showed good manage-
ment. No superintendent could do better,
whether he were q better man than Mr..
Young or not.
Trustee Guthrie said that if any law
could be shown to prevent the board elect
ing Mr.. Young for g term of years, they
should not do it. But If there was not any
law against it they should do it.
Trustee Miller did not think it was a
question whether the law prevented it. It
thorized it. Mr.. Young was elected az a
teacher, and teachers we're only chosen for
one year. %%#. "
The committee's recommendation was
adopted BY yeas 6-Irustees Cox, Gamer,
Guthrie, Walker, Kleinschmidt and LanR-
horne; nay 1-Trustee Miller.
Contractor j. 8. Grant would not accept
the position Of foreman on the new high
school work, having other business enRag-
Tag his attention. The committee also re-
ported that mill men were figuring on the
material and that others were preparing to
bid on the thing. A. j. Craven, represent
furnished the high school building, and for
which liens nave been filed. asked the
board to settle the bills. He did not think
the citizens or the board wanted 4 hand
some school building, knowing the labor
and material had not been Eaid for. In
regard to the assignment of money by the
contractors TO the Montana bank, Mr..
Craven thought that legally the liens came
ahead of any such paper.
After some discussion the matter was
referred to the finance committee, with tine
suggestion that the boards attorney be
consulted with a view OF making up an
agreed case for submission to cou,t. If the
court ordered the board to pay the dis.
trict would thus be protected, it was
argued. A letter was also received from
Nick Ksssles, asking the board to pay for
brick he had furnished the contractors for
the high schnol building. 1t was filed.
f. M. Williams told the board no ar
r%angements had beer mats about his pay
as superintendent Of construction Of the
Sixth ward school house. In consideration
Of there being little to 10 just now, he,
said he would superinteud hat building
and the new high school for tbs same sal
AIRY he il receiving, and only charge for the
drawings Of the Sixth ward house. Inc
proposition WAS referred.
Trustee Miller, from the finance commit
tee, reported that there was not enough
money in the general fund to pay his
months salaries of teachers. The com
mittee was instructed to make provision
for the deficit and report at the next meet
ing,
Hon. L. II. Kleinschmidt called the
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