The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-11-28
YOUNG BREAKS OUT AGAIN.
He Charges Supt. Barnard With
Stealing $500.
AND IS CALLED ALTAR IN RETURN


roy Concerning the school super
fntendent's salary Warrants-The
Latter Makes an Emphatic Denial.
douglas Young. an accountant IN the
employ OF the county has reported 20
Prosecuting attorney McElroy that Frank
.. Barnard. superintendent of city schools.
mas oVerdrawn his salary two months, or
s41 superintendent Barnard says the
statement Is unqualihedly false.
touns made his report after secret
investigation. He did not ask Superin-
tendent Barnard for an explanation OF
what ne has reported as irregularities. In
part II Is as follows:
On September & lsa5 Mr. BARNARD was
employed for the ensuing year at a salary
OF $. ~, or $40 per month On September
H. 1879. AT the request of Mr.. Barnard (Sea
page ~ volume 81. 1t was ordered that
schools be paid at the rate of $24G per
month Tor d period of ten months only.
here rs an exact copy of the record cover
Ing that transactions:
September 3. 1885 Motion to fx the
salary or the superintendent of schools at
saey ,d inr the ensuing year was carried by
me roiioWing vote; Ia favor-Churchiil,
MaeDousall and Colkett.
A motion to hire AIR. F. ]. Barnard as
city superintendent of schools for the en-
suing year was carried by the following
Dougali''
September II. 1895. Superintendent Bar
nard sent letter to the board. in the
course of which he said that the reduc-
ton Of his salary to s., 800 year was not
satisfactory. yet he would accept. Con-
tinuing. he said:
Il ask, however inasmuch as the COM
Ing school year is TO be but nine months.
that my year and salary be on a basis OF
ten months, which will give ME one month
after the close of the schools IN which
to complete the years work. making as
signment of teachers and all other ar
engagements for the opening Of schools In
(signedp frank ]. BARNARD"
Pursuant to motion. il was ordered that
the salary of the superintendent Of schools
be paid at the rate of $40 per month for
ten months only. salary to begin Septem-
Der /. 1895.
In accordance with the foregoing reso-
luton. Mr.. Young reports that warrants
were drawn from September. 1895, TO June.
gregating $s.ioo. IN full payment of the
foregoing agreement. But in spite OF the
fact that the final warrant issued in June.
1898, completed the salary of Superintend.
ent Barnard, he drew 500 in the month or
July and also in the month Of August.
which constituted the last two months
of the school year for which he had re-
quested ten warrants or payments at $40
each.
On May l. 1896 volume 8. page $3.50. Mr.
King moved that the city superintendent
of schools be paid s., 400 in twelve monthly
payments for the succeeding school year,
and the motion was unanimously adopted,
On May q. 1897. the superintendent ad-
dressed the following letter to the board:
Gentlemen: In view of the fact that
my present contract as city superintend-
emf of schools expires on the nIh gay gay
for the same position. under new con-
tract. for period of three years, begin
ming July / 1877 and I'd ending June 30 a 70
monthly ins;allments, Of SOS. SO is out of
the funds of School District No. upon
warrant drawn by the directors and pay
able by the county treasurer. Very re-
"(signed.) FRANK ]. BARNARD
On motion of Van Houten the proposal
OF Frank ]. Barnard was accepted. Church
i'll. Van Houten. Chilberg and Brewer vot-
ing yes. Against, none.
Warrants were Issued ,Sos to cover the sal
1897. inclusive. TO the amount of 81. 1855.
Mr. Young then states:
There has been. as you will note from
the foregoing. gain of two months to Mr..
Barnard in the term of 1866.
ION September 2. 1895. Mr.. Barnard was
employed al a salary of g. 400 payable in
Barnard's request these payments were
changed 10 ten of $40 each
''On May {. 1896. the salary for the en-
was fixed at s24oo which was accented by
Mr. Barnard. as per his letter OF May II.
1885,
Prosecuting Attorney McElroy stated
that according to the report he had re-
ceived. Supt. Barnard had got ahead OF
the school directors two months. but there
was nothing criminal In his action. When
asked for an explanation OF how Mr.. Bar
nard had gotten ahead of the directors,
he said he did not exactly know. Mr.. Me-
Eiroy refused to tell who had complained
about the superintendent. but admitted
that II was one of the school directors,
who. he supposed. represented a trio.
Barnard's Statement.
When Supt. Barnard was seen last night
he said:
THE only reply that I care to make at
this time regaring the statement made by
Douglas Young that / had overdrawn my
account 800 is that 1t is unqualifiedly false.
The fact of the matter Is. have drawn
my full years salary for each and every
year that | have been employed as super
intendent of schools; no more no less. Mr..
Young has made a mistake in this. the
school year does not begin In September.
but on July /. and the length of the school
year is twelve months.
when i came here in 1890 I was en-
pioyed for a school year at salary of
S9o. stated 10 the board that l would
like to have II paid at the rate of $50
that rate the district would be behind in
its payments two full months at the ex-
piratton OF the school year. namely June
30. Notwithstanding that the salary for
that year was not entirely paid up. and
not paid until the end OF August, the
secretary understood that the entire SEQ
was TO be charged TO the account OF the
school year beginning July |. 1890, and
ending June 30. 1891. This tapping of the
salary Of one year on to part of the next
year AMI peing charged back by the secre-
tary to its proper year. and the report for
the fiscal year showing accordingly, con-
tinued for several years until ! requested
the board one year 10 divide the salary
Tor mat year into ten equal payments. thus
making the salary and the school year
terminate June -. they legally should,
The salary fixed and paid now begins
and ends with the legal school year. name
~ July to June 30.
II might add. TO make II stilI clearer.
that II Expert Young Is correct in his
statements, then I have a valid claim
against the district for two months pay
In the year preceding that In which he
claims | received two months double pay
and If he Is correct | shall proceed to col
iect my pay. Experf Young did not even
take the trouble TO ask me for an expiana-
ton. nor did | know anything OF the
charge until il was published"
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