The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-03-29
ARTICLE VIII.
Educational DEPARTMENT..

Educational Department.
SEC. 10. The government of the Common
schools of the city shall be vested in a Board
OF Education, 10 consist of nine members, to
DC called School Directors, and who shall re-
celNe no compensation. One School Director
snall De elected from each ward. Their terms
OF Once shall be four Years. OF the members
ol Inc boaru OF Education first elected under
This Charter, the members from the second
tourth. Sixth and Eighth Wards shall hold
thelr Office for four years, and the members
from the First, Third, Fifth, Seventh and
Ninth Wards shall hold their Office for only
two years. At each election thereafter mem
pcrs OF the Board of Education shall be elected
10 succeed those whose terms are about TO
expire No person shall be eligible 10 the
ONCE OF School Director, unless he is at the
Iline OF ms election a qualified elector of the
ward from which he is elected.
SEC. IL i. The Board of Education shall
meet on The lrst Monday after the first day of
January next after the election of It's men,
oers shall have been officially declared, and
organize by electlng one of their number
PRESIDENT, whose term of Office, as President,
shall be two years. The board Shall hold req
ulaf meetings at least once in each month, and
III sucn times as shall be determined by its
rules. Special meetings may be called at any
Tune by the President any three of the mem
perS. or by the Superintendent. SIX members
OF The board shall constitute quorum for the
transaction of business, ana the Affirmative
vote OF five members shall be necessary TO
pass any measure, but a smaller number may
determine the rules of its proceedings. and the
yeas and nays shall be taken when Gemande,i
oy any member and entered on the records OF
the board. Its records shall be open to public
inspection. The Mayor shall fill all vacancies
occurring in the board, until the next regular
munictpal election. Allmeetings of the board
be viva YOce
SEC: liz. The powers and duties of the
Board OF Education are as follows:
FifSt-Io establish and maintain common
which incln6p j0l yr1.ary
primary and kindergarten departments: to
Grange, or consolidate the same; to manage
anu cohtrol the school property; to establish
school districts, and to IX and alter the
boundaries thereof.
Sacond-To employ, pay and dismiss teach
ers, JanltorS and such persons as may be neces-
siry 10 carry INTO effect the powers and duties
OF the board, and to Tx, alter, allow and order
paid their salaries or compensation and to
withhold, for good and sufticient cause the
Whoie or any part OF the salary or wa sCs of
any person or persons employed as aforesai id.
Inefe snail be an annual election for teachers
at suGn tlinc as the board may determine;
provided, however, that no election or aD-
Dolntment OF any teacher. ianitur or other
empiOye shall constitute a contract either as
10 the duration OF the Office or as to the
amount OF salary or compensation to he paid
but the board shall ALWAYS have the power to
dismiss any or all teachers, ianitors or other
employees. and to alter the amount OF salary
or com penSatiOn.
Thrd-To make establish and enforce all
necessary and proper rules and regulations
FOR the government and progress of the com
mon schools aud for the Investigation of
the department., and for carrying into effect
The laws relating to education; also to eStao-
liSh and regulate the grade OF schools and de-
tern1ne what textbooks Tin addition 10 those
published b. the State, course OF study and
mole of instruction shlu be used Ia said
schools: buJ any Textbook determined IIron
by the board shall not be changed within a
period Of four years after its adoption
Fourth-To provide for the School Depart
ment all necessary supplies, and incur such
other incidental expenses as may be necessary
Tor the welfare OF the department.
tlfth-To build. alter, repair, rent and pro-
vide SchoolhouseS, and to furnish them with
proper school furniture, apparatus anu appli-
lnceS.
Sixth-To purchase, sell or exchange school
lots, and to take charge of any and all real
estate and personal property that may have
been acquired, or may hereafter be acquired for
the use and benefit Of the common schools of
the city; and TO make, in the name of the city,
conVeyances OF property belonging to the city
and sold by the Board OF EducaJon; 1jr0Uided
that no real estate Shall be bought, sold or
exchanged without the consent of the Board
of Trustees, evidenced by ordinance; and pro-
vided further, that the proceeds of any such
sale or exchange of real estate shall be ex-
clusiveiy applied to the purchase OF other lots,
or the erection OF SchoolhouSeS for the use OF
this department.
Seventh-Io appoint School Census Mar
shals on or before the first day of May of each
year, whose duties shall be as prescribed by
general law.
Eighth-To sue In the name of the city for
any and all property acquired or claimed for
the use and benefit OF the School Department
and to prosecute and defend all actions at law
or in equity, necessary to recover and main
tain the full enjoyment and possession of said
property, and to require the services of the
City Attorney in all such actions.
Ninth-To examine every demand payable
out of the school fund, and for good cause to
reject any such demand, or to allow the same
in whole or in part, and to compel the attend
ance OF witnesses before the board, or any
committee thereof in any matter under IN
veStigatiOn.
Tenth-To discharge all legal membranes
now existing, or which may hereafter exist
upon any school property.
Eleventh-To prohibit any child under six
years of age from attending the common
schools, provided in kindergarten classes
children of four years Of age may be admitted
and to suspend or eXpel pupils for miscon-
duct.
Twelfth-To dispose of and sell at public
auction upon not less than five days notice
by pubilcation IN daily newspaper pub
liShed in said city, such personal properly as
shall no longer be required by the DEPART
ment. All moneys realized from such sales
snail be paid into the treasury to the credit of
the School Fund.
Thirteeatn-To receive and manage prom
erty or money acquired by DEVISE bequest, or
donation in trust for the benefit OF any
school, educational purpose, or school prop
erty.
Fourteenth-To exclude from the schools
and school libraries all books, publications
or papers of sectarian, partisan or denomina-
tiona character
Fifteenth-To furnish books for the children
OF parents unable TO furnish them. The books
50 furnished shall belong to the city, and
snail be returned to the Superintendent at the
close of each term.
StXteenth-To make an annual report on or
before the first day OF July in each year to the
County superintendent of Schools in the
manner and form and on the blanks pre-
scribed by the State Superintendent of Public
Instruction.
h To 10
required directly to the State Superinten dent
otPubl1c instruction of the textbooks used in
the city schools.
Eighteenth Each member Of the board
shall visit every school in the city at least
once in each term and examine carefully into
its management, condition and wants.
N1neteenth-It shall be the duty of the board
TO prescribe a course or study that will tit and
prepare the students therein to enter any of
the departments OF the University OF the State
of California. Such course shall be known as
the High School course.
Twentieth-1he board may provide depart
mentS Tor the training of pupils in the in
dustrial and mechanical arts, and domestic
and commercial avocations and shall have
power TO furnish such departments with nee
essary tools, apparatus and appliances.
Twenty-nrSt-And generally to do and per-
form such other acts as may be required by
general law applicable to the city, and as may
be necessary and proper 10 carry into force
ana erect the powers conferred on SAID board,
and to Increase the efficiency of the common
schools in the city.
SEC. 113. The City Auditor and City Treas
urer shall keep q City School Fund into
which stall be paid all moneys appropriated
to it under any law providing city school
moneys; all moneys resolved from the State
on account OF the city S share of any appor-
uonment OF the State school moneys, and the
city's portion of all county moneys collected
or set apart for school purposes, and neither
the Board of Trustees nor City Auditor shall
allow any claim payable out of the City
School Fund until after such claim shall have
been audited and allowed by the Board OF
Education.
annually, on or before the first Monday in
August, make and report to the Board Of
Trustees statement in detail of the receipts