The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-10
SCHOOL ESTIMATE
BOARD OF EDUCATION WANTS
FULL 20 PER CENT
LIGHT QUESTION is SETTLED
Many Interesting Questions Will Come
Before the Council at Mondays
Meeting

The city board of educatlons wants Its full
tweny per cent of the tax levy this year. In
fact 1t wants more than that. The total
amount asked for in its estimate is $3.50 ,267. 49,
OF this sum $34S 200 will be raised from the
state and county fund, and the board in its
estimate records a balance of $40, S75.52 from
the last fiscal year. AS 1t estimates its ex-
pense In the current fiscal year at $3.50, 267 So
1t is left for the city to raise Sal, 091S4
The law provides that the schools may
have twenty per cent of the taxes raised for
the city fund, and as it is a reasonable esti-
mate to place the valuation of the city
property at $50, 000 900, the full twenty per
cent would be only 100000. 1t therefore
necessarily follows that the board of educa-
TONS estimate must be cut down about SCI,
900, and If the council does as it did last year
the cut will be greater than this amount.
The board was allowed 100000 in the last
fiscal year, whereas they asked for $119 ,4l9.
1t is the intention to insist upon their full
share this year, and if the council is not dis
posed to give it to them, complications may
result. The boards estimate of their eX-
penses for the fiscal year is as follows:
Principals, $3.50 per month, ten months
salaries, s5S3OO; primary and grammar
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1920, AGO; special teachers, $73O, ten months
salaries, $500; high school, $3S65;
ten months salaries, S3S,65O; kinder
garten, $4125, ten months salaries, SAL ,250;
soyd department, sass, ten months salaries
1885, office, $64O, twelve months salaries
$3.50; superintendent of buildings, $40 per
month; assistant superintendent of build
ings, 800; driver of supply wagon, $50; four
men at $50, 1920; for twelve months, $4,000;
fifty-two janitors at S2197s per month, one
engineer at $75 per month, $2272; for ten
months, $22,72O; labor and repairs. $4,000
office supplies, $47SS1; kindergarten sup
plies. $4,000; fuel, $1,000; lumber, $4S22.21 pen
ellis, S755.O4; pens, $731; erasers, $112S0; chalk
$4,000; soft paper, $413.40; double-ruled pa
per- $36.SG; foolscap paper, $10z!.1 II; brushes
and brooms, $341.26; soap, $62.1); towels
S172.43; ink S213.55; paint, 1921 "a; glass
$156.54; chemicals, $55S. 6S; apparatus, s3590.26
desks, s215O40; furniture, $65OO; books
$1329.67; library, $1,000; slate pencils, s26.61;
penholders. $26.52; hardware, including
sloyd tools, s45OO; sundries, $3.50; insurance
$1,000; miscellaneous, S10,32S.5S; general &C.
counts. $S16.93; music. $40; sloyd and other
lumber, $6175.25 clocks and repairs, s4S. rs;
piano tuning, s47.5O; plumbing and sewer
connections, $4,000; printing, $2500 grading
and street improvements $4,000; supplies,
stationery and sundries, $1,000; INDECENT pu-
pills. $500; gas 5000; census marshal and
deputies, $500; high school commencement,
$3.50; Teachers institute, 5000; telephone
rent, $500; additional land at new Macy
street school, $500; office rent, $1,000; sta
tionery for office. s14OO; Pico Heights build
ing, $4,000; Pico Heights building, $111O0;
lot and five rooms at Boyd street, $40 900; to-
tai, $3.50 ,26736.