The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-05
SALARIES FOR
NOVEMBER AND
DECEMBER LOST
No Hope of Their Be-
ing Paid.
NO SURPLUS CAN BE USED
COMPARISON OF HALF-YEAR
EXPENSE BUDGETS.
Consolidating the Incompetent and
Ancient Teachers Out of the
School Department
Rolls.
NO SURPLUS CAN BE USED
COMPARISON OF HALF-YEAR
EXPENSE BUDGETS.

Relative to the chances Of the teachers
recovering their ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS sal
aries and the merchants their merchan-
disc bills a prominent attorney said the
! only method was for the victims to ap
ply to the Legislature for a relief appro-
priation.
However DESTROYS the present board may
be of paying the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS sal
aries they cannot legally do so, even II
! they ever have a surplus of funds. The
law says all surplus money of a fiscal
year must become part of the funds of
! the subsequent year.
| President Bergerot of the Board of Ed
ucation stated yesterday that he was sat-
isfied that the court would decide as it
! did. By law the Board of Education can
not have and never had the authority to
pay the Indebtedness of one year out Of
the appropriation of subsequent fiscal
| year. BY reason of the constitutional pro-
vision, he said, the court was obliged to
hold that the Auditor had no right to pay
the 100000 deficit of 1S97-98 out of the
school fund provided for the fiscal year
| 189S-99.
The entire appropriation, continued
Mr.. Bergerot, amounts to $1,2l7,l 4O, and
the Auditors books show that up to Jan
uary, 1898. $572, 1899 was expended. This
! leaves available on January l, 1899, sum
of $644. 24O 81 Now, under the one-twelfth
| act, lL6 pISSeul DOdTu - SHlIllSu " ola
twelfths of the entire appropriation, to
wit, to the sum of $60S,570. BY subtract
Ing this last amount from the amount
available January l, 1899, we have bal
ance of $35 $40 g. which must be credited
| to the first six months of the fiscal year.
| Out of the sum of S35, $40 81 should be paid
! salaries of teachers and janitors, and
about SSS,OOO for miscellaneous demands
already audited.
Director Holbrook, chairman of the
Finance Committee with Superintendent
of Construction Walker and a building
expert, has visited a large number of the
! SchoOlhOuSeS, and he finds many of them
in wretched and shameful condition.
! He states that the $1,000 asked for by
! the building committee is not too much
for needed work in the seventy-seven
! be cut to not over $50 900. The plumbing
in some of the buildings is almost useless
and the sanitary condition Of many out
houses and sheds is such that the Health
officers are liable to come down on them
any day.
The following is a comparison of the
expenditures of the last board with the
proposed expenditure of the present board
for period of six months:
July to Dec. Jan. ! to July
81, 1898 Committee. l, 1899
81 1874 ............ buildings ......S3 $50, cog
72 S38. Supplies .............. Is, 900
Printing .............. 1000
1925. Finance ............... 5000
57S 900. Salaries SIG, 600
The amount of the salaries Of the old
board including November and December,
is S743, 1874. Auditor Wells has declined to
audit the January salary warrants until
he has received legal advice from his at
torney, General Dickinson, who is in Sac
ramento. This will prevent the salaries
being paid tomorrow. With February
salaries will be paid the 20 per cent held
back from the January money. and all
months hereafter will be settled in full.
AS the work of adjustment goes on, the
incompetents who have burdened the
teachers pay roll for years are gradually
being brought into notice. In the reclas-
sification system they were shifted
around, but no effort was then made to
investigate their fitness.
II knew there was a number Of these in
eligibles,' said Superintendent Webster
yesterday, land that their cases would
come up for investigation in good time.
The method now being pursued is to let
their new principals report upon their
competency, or even virtually refuse to
receive them as teachers in their respect
i've schools. Such reports will, of course,
contain reasons for such reflections, and
so the question of professional fitness will
come before the board. One paper has
published a list of eighteen alleged to be
old and otherwise incompetent. Prob
ably six or seven Of them will be sub
jects of investigation, while among the
others are some of the best teachers of
the department.
Every teachers qualifications will be
weighed and only complete fitness will
keep them on the rolls. But few COM
plants have come to my office to-day and
l am pleased to see that affairs are get
ting down to smooth condition again.
The Taxpayers Educational League
will hold a mass-meeting in Department
of the City Hall next Wednesday even
ing. The, object of the gathering is to
advocate the passage of the San Francisco
Normal School bill through the Legisla-
ture and especially for the adoption of an
amendment for the immediate establish
ment of the school in temporary buildings
here. The contributions from the pupils
of the present Normal School for the
to be paid into the school fund.
Miss High, who was appointed stem
ographer at the last meeting of the old
was dismissed at the first meeting of the
new board. will be paid for one days Ia
Dor at the. rate of $75 per month. The 20
from her salary Next Monday the com
mercial class from the Mission High
School will enter the Polytechnic School