The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-11
THE TEACHERS SALARIES,
Mr.. MouIder Thinks 1t Is Not
Necessary to Cut
Them.
With Careful Financiering the Board
Can Get Through All
Right.

Superintendent Moulder has been busy
figuring since he received the communl-
cation from Superintendent of Public In
struction Black as to the apportlonment
Of the State tax for the schools OF San
Francisco, and he has had the secretary to
the board figuring, too, to devise ways and
means to make both ends meet.
They have figured it out that with care
full financiering and the calling Of halt
right now in the matter of expenditures
not absolutely necessary that the thing
can be done without a reduction of teach
ers' salaries. This will no doubt be great
relief to the minds of the city and county's
900 teachers.
"The estimate for running the schools
this year" said Mr.. Moulder yesterday
'was 81 062, 900. 1t was expected that the
State would supply $500, 900 of this, and the
Supervisors provided for raising 100000
more by taxation, which with the $50, 900
surplus from the last year, would have
made up the amount. Now comes this
news from Sacramento reducing the States
supply of funds to little over $40, 600 for
the year, and we must cut our cloth accord
ingly and leave undone some things we in
tended to do. l think we can get through,
although the board this year will have to
meet number of expenses that does not
really belong to it, such as the paying of
the several judgments for back salaries
obtained by Harriet NJ. Fairchild and other
teachers"
"The shortage will not interfere with the
completion of the school buildings now
under way?"
Fortunately not There are two build
ings now in course of construction, but
they are being built with a special
fund under control of the Supervisors.
The brick addition to the Polytechnical
High School on Stockton street, which
was built by the Board of Education, is
fortunately completed and will be a model
III its way. Its equipment is rapidly being
completed and will be wholly so before the
end of this term.
"How does it happen that the Super
visors are paying for school buildings?
With the fund arising from the rental of
the school property at Fifth and Market
streets. Twenty years ago this property
was bought and bonds issued on its lease
for twenty years. 1t has a frontage of 275 feet
on Market street east and the same on Fifth
street south, and is divided into eleven lots,
upon which buildings have been erected,
the Lincoln and the Webster schools on
part of it. The term of the bonds was mp
and they were redeemed in June, 1894, and
since then the rentals have created new
fund OF $3.50 month. The fund has aver
aged about $4,000 year. The leases all
expire in September, 1895, and the fund
realized from them since the bonds were
redeemed will amount to about $50, $50.
1T is from this source that some half
dozen schoolhouses have been built in these
years without levying tax, the last two of
which are the Potrero eight-class school
building, costing about $4,000, and the
Douglass or Eureka Valley School, about
$4,000, now nearing completion.
with the expiration of this lease in
September will arise an interesting ques-
ton as to what to do with this property,
which is valued at at least 81, 100000"