The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-29
TEE AGAIN CONSIDERS THE
sCHOOE BUDGET.
BUILDING FUND CUT IN TWO.
HALF OF Iif ADDED TO THE FUND
FOR THE GENERAL MAIN
TENANCE.
sANBoRN AND AI.LARD SAY NO
Either the Entire $4,000 Should
BE Put III or None at
=" AN.

Inc special joint committee OF the
common council, which has had the
school budget under consideration, met
last night to reconsider it's action at
the previous meeting whereby 1t re-
fused to follow the recommendation OF
the school board that the Sal, 900 orig
inally appropriated for school sites and
buildings be placed In the general
maintenance fund. The result of last
nights meeting was that the commit
tee by vote of 5 to decided to re-
commend that $40, 900 of the $4,000
building fund be placed in the main
tenance fund. The committee also
adopted by the same vote, Aids. San
born and Allard again voting In the
ne gative, a resolution recommending
the appropriation of $4,000 for the
school year beginning Sept. 1.
Aid. Sanborn and Allard wanted the
entire 1000 turned into the mainten-
arce fund. or none at all, as they con-
tended that any action looking to di-
vision Of the Sal, 900 would be nugatory,
because by a previous action OF the
common council this total sum had
been split into various portions and ap-
propriated for erecting school buildings
and purchasing school sites in various
districts.
On the other hand. Assemblyman
Johnson, Arosini and Thompson and
Aid. Bell and Larsen figured that, in
asmuch as the school board had de-
clared that 1T could maintain the
schools for $4,000 during the coming
school year, and in view Of the fact
that 100000 could be raised without
resort to the1$41 600, it was not neces-
sary to turn over the entire SAL 900, but
only $4,000. =,
While every member Of the special
committee was present last night, as
we'll as Moyaf Doran and Assemblyman
Kirke and Aid. Stutzman. President
Iimmermann, of the school board, was
absent. AS upon the former occasion,
the council committee was ignored.
At the outset of the meeting Chair
man Arosin US announced that he had
been informed that the school board
had declared that the schools could
not be maintained for $4O0,OOO during
| the coming school year, but must have
at least 1920, 900. After an extended
but informal discussion. in which
| everybody talked at once,-Mayor
| Doran excepted-and in which the
| figures of the comptroller were again
| and again quoted, Aid Sanborn moved
| that the committee recommend that the
! SAL 900 be turned over to the main
! tenance fund.
'It is foolish to buy new sites and
build new buildings, when we haven't
/ to hire teachers for them after they
are built 'i'ff5e.-e,: ri, IA .,i.,,asr ,,r- ,.
| This bit of advice fell upon deaf ears,
with the exception Of those,ibelonging
! to Aid. Allard. Those hardest Of hear
| ing seemed to belong to Assemblyman
| Thompson. who wants new school
| building in the Second ward at any
| hazard. 4e
Assemblyman Johnson, who knew
how to get a school in the Eighth ward
when he waEted 1t, doubted whether
| it would afford permanent relief to put
| the SAL, 900 in the maintenance fund.
| IT, in future years, only 100000 a year
! could be raised, this would be only a
! temporary makeShift. Mr.. Johnson
| thought that the council ought to face
| the music at once and act accordingly.
| Speaking Of salaries. Mr.. Johnson said
that while he did not advocate the
| reduction of teachers salaries, he
would say, that as for principals, he
| considered Prof. S. S. Taylor formerly
principal of the Franklin school, was
I as good a principal as st. Paul had
ever had. yet. Prof. Taylor received
only $1,4O0 a year.
Aid. Sanborn renewed his motion to
! put the Sal, 900 into the maintenance
| fund Mr. Johnson offered as an
amendment that $4,000 of the Sal, 900
be placed in the maintenance fund.
This motion prevailed by the vote al
ready detailed. The committee then
! formally voted to recommend the ap-
preparation of $420,OOO instead of $780,
| 600 for the coming school year.
| To a subcommittee was referred the
matter of ascertainirg from the school
board how that body wished to have
! the $42O,O00 divided. Aid. Larsen and
Assemblyman Thompson and Chair
man Thompson will attend to this.