The San Francisco call., 1899-10-12
DIRECTORS DID
NOT STAND FOR
CONLON' s BILLS
Demanded His Resig-
nation Instead.

Although they received 10 verbal Or
pubic casIgati0u at the hands OF their
cuufreres, School Directors C0uIou z1d
GeGge were last night deprived OF al
. authority IN the Supplies and Buildings
and Grounds committees and bills
amounting % over s12,jG0 contracted by
L6em without auChgrlZ4L ton were repudi-
aced BY the Finance Committee Of the
Board q EdUcaCIQ1- IN C0EEaufs case the
committee went even further. IL called
him into a1 executive session held iruE-e-
CiaLeIy before the regular meeting was
begun and requested MS eSIguaLI0l from
the C1G-r II-a4lSl4p OF L15 Supplies Com
UfLtee- Coulo1, however. was f0rew4ru5d
and mad determined - oraZEu II out Tne
committees pointed request was refused.
The COuCenua ton Of CIelze and CouIOu
occurred during the executive session
There was 10 demonstration whatever n
open meeting merely the subu1I=st1a 0E
the motions and reports decided UPON IN
close conference Chairman Egibro1l1
Rad charge OF the u14nipul4ttous and he
opened Ey moving 20 reScIld Z motion
mace og -11 we meetings oeLgre QrG@r-
ing paid Al July and August claims
against the department he explained
that at that time there were claims out
staining OF which the board mad no on
cal knowledge, and Lhese The Finance
COumLCLse Wls1ed time 70 Investigate.
bis Uo-I01 was carried. and then Ia
moved the payment OF another list which
he submitted, and which included also
legal claims for September.
CTeCge E1L anxious, and wanted 10 know
Il sLiiU was included IN the list for Weber
& CO. E0l1ruok replied that Lhere was
not, out E1aL he would provide Tor It.
With that understanding eFeftEe suhsidzd
and tEe 1ew LIST went through It or
Gered the payment OF claims aZgreEztIag
about 81. ltl. but On its face did not iu1t-
cate that al Of the bills contracted
by C0EloU and CEzdze during their exLrzV-
4gaEL administration had oee1 Looored
The rruch Of the matter was that the
1890 given Weber i Co was AL that that
lrU got C1 claims stacking Up nearly
Sey10. For the balance 0t their btI they
viii either have 10 take back thslr goods
or bring suit The Finance Committee
takes the stand that the goods were or
dered by CC1lc1 and tIeGze without the
authority Of the board and ara OF COT
sequence Illegal W cher & Co. Disagree
E-h that opinion and refuse 70 move the
goods lack 70 their sL0r5rQoU1s- Besides
the weber claims others OF different dru1s
d-ECsE2CllE between 5000 ard $500 were
alsC GteG-eE0Cg1- in fact. 70 keep
the firm Ct CTeCGe and Cou-0E explaining
balance q -1=Lr term CT oEICe-
President 5srgeEoE followed EGIbr0oE
with L resolution equally AZ damaging 70
-ce supplies gcEIllL---I@-rLl-h aS Vas ltle
repui z-ICu q tE=lC claims In effect tE
ACCOMPLISHED that Wl5CG C1ClC- refused
10 give Lp-hIs r=SIgEa i1C-aud II placed
the Supplies Committee and Gil others IN
which the EWU affected members had
membership beyCC1 Cl=lr C1z1tp l-lsrte1-
L reads a. follows ard vas unanimously
adopted
from l1t after this date sra-I caTe r1z Pov@r
Cd order acy goods c- r1=rc-s-- -, a1d th.iE 10
goods -r r-e-ehl1tIs= q sod ard delivered ?.
the department d1t pad t1r eT 11e BOARD AZ
-err L1Cr re -LztrlJcs "a c-= f1--1. Erst slZI=t
cv a ma t--t-y q lhs MEMBERS 16 s1a Crcper
Ea----trI-a and cDlCrers4 SEec ny -1e c1dtr--a1
q ,1e 2. 1a-ce C1I--il rr=e And rle 5rssl-=Et Il
the beard
Resolved. Tlar a -oDg Z this resolution oe
--.Ll=,t cy rae secretary % every party a8G
sr1- saving any dealings ~ir1 the 6oard 4
Mss Eleanor McEwen was transferred
from the B-uacway Grammar school 20
the MsGIsoc Primary School vice Hiss
Olive Bartlett Hiss olive BarJls-L Has
transferred from the MADISON ErtrIlAry
School 10 the AEassJz Primary School,
vice Miss Z Fredericks.
Tbe following resolution was adopted
Resolved ard ordered, Thar the folIcwtng as
sszrulents az teachers r-4ds ay the S1perlzx
--7,.ecr 1f Schools &C ard are hsrsby confirmed.
E,ve1iEg CO c-e Humboldt Evening alZh Sc11ol.
Mss : \ Macdonald troU che Ef1coln Ever
c1E % the Horace Mann Evening ScnCOt- C. +.
LrCwelI -r0E1 -1e eFs1i1g SUBSTITUTE LIST q r1=
L#neoIr Evening SchCoI VICE Miss T A Ma
DoczId, Mss N A=trDvfc1 lcuc1 Eh= Franklin
Evezf1g class consolh5ar=t} % the Spring Val
izy Evening. vice Mss 4 Z o. SCLilvGn-
ResoLvec That Mrs - 2 stark. vice 1rt1-
-i1aI OF the Hearst Cfrarz-ar SchooI, he ana
cr the Columbia Lirau-1zar School vice Mss y
o Lcughizn ali that Mss y. D LougEtzu be
ana = 16rs6F trans err=ti aS wee griE,lpa1 %
E1s Columbia Grammar -c-oct % -1z vice prI1-
ejPalshlp q tks Hearst Grammar, vice Mrs.
Erark
Resolved. That The leave Of absence granted
Mss Jean Farasr by th-s board On SePterz-
cer . &C ard s herebg carceIed-
Resolved That Tie ac-t01 1t r1= S1pertuEsud-
ar 8t schools in stezuCrllz from 4 teacher
experience any time llar may have be4u
loss by reason ct ieave ot a5sence : HersoF
sustained
Consolidation ot classes by the evening
school committee n accordance wtCh or
dsrs and resolutions OF the board resulted
in the transfer Of the following teachers
10 the evening substitute list Miss N
lJac4uIey from the Franklin Evening
School Miss 4 L O'SLI ivan from the
Ward from the irving SCoEt Evening
SCh10l. Miss 3 English from the Spring
Valley Evening School. Robert L. Mann
and William He--Dd We're placed on the
evening unassigned list without pay. Miss
& Fitzgerald Miss z. e. Taylor and Miss
A + Campbell on the evening unassigned
hsC without pay One class was ordered
cOusoIid IN the Lincoln Evening
School and also two classes n the Frank
lin Evening School. and one class taught
by Miss z. MangEu. recently deceased In
the Irving Scott Elverf1g School.
Miss I NJ Roberts was transferred from
the irving 70 the Grant school
4 cQuC1u 1uHtCzti0u from the civic cCr1-
-1fttee Of the California Club asked the
board to set & day upon which the club
might present To the Eincoa School 4 col
lection OF pictures and busts The re-
quest was referred 20 a committed
The rssfguatfou Of Miss Julia KENNEDY
a. q teacher In the department. was re-
ceivsd and fled
short leaves 0f absence were granted
the following teachers. Z " EluEs Miss
VI H SIGvan and Miss 4 Cassanzfou
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