The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-01-21
Members of Board of Education
Want More Money.
Claim They CANT Get Along With 36
Cents-the Charter en- the
Subject
THE COUNCIL DISAGREES

Those members of the Board of Ed.
ucation who have been investigating
the needs of the public schools declare
that the sch ools need at least s45, 900,
and could easily use several thousand
more to good advantage considering the
new school buildings and new teachers
needed.
The law is as follows, Section 321s
of the second class charter:
said board shall annually in the
month Of January, approximately as
certain the amount of money neces-
sary to he used to defrsy the expenses
Of maintaining the schools, improv
ing or constructing buildings, ct
cetera, thereof, and am liquidation OF
the Liabilities during the current
fiscal year, and report the same,
together with the amount to be re-
ceived from the comm on school fund
of the state Of Kentucky (which
amount the board shall ascertain by
taking the census required BY law in
April to the auditor. and thereupon
the general council shall, at the re-
quest of said board levy and collect
such taxes as may be requested and
the money arising from said levy
shall under the direction and con.
troll of such board, be used for the
benefit Of the common schools and
for the purpose of paying Off the
Indebtedness of said board: Provid-
ed. that the levy shall not in any one
year, exceed S5 cents on each 500,
and 10 cents on each 800 valuation
additional, for sinking fund purpose
Newport, KY, which has popu-
lation of $4,000, just 1000 more than
paducah allows the schools $50, 900,
over twice as much as is allowed the
public schools here. A school Official
gave it as his opinion that $35, 900
will barely cover the actual running
exps nses. Paducah, be says needs
two new school buildings badly, and
with the rapid growth of Psducah,
the improvement will become impera-
tive within the next year. In Mech
anicbsurg the school is very small and
badly located. The milling Industries
in that locality are large, and the en-
ployes have many children who de-
sire educational facilities, and the
building in that portion of the city
will not accommodate them all. The
result is many have to walk to Frank
lin building, a distance far too great.
The rooms, as result, in the Frank
lin building are jammed full of
pupils and the best results can not be
derived from such teaching-whers
the grade has to be divided and one
half taught in the morning and the
other in the afternoon.
"In Rowlandtown the school situs-
tion is Just as bad and a new building
is needed there also. It 10 suggested
that there be built two story, four
room building planned so that addi-
tions can be made with the growth of
the city.
"A building erected in Mechanics
burg and another in Rowlandtown
under these plans will answer the pur-
pose, and l am told they can be built
with sl2, Ooo."
The members of the council, claim
that they have simply to fix the tax rate
and give the schools not exceeding thir-
ty We cents on the hundred dollars, and
il it Is not enough 1t is all they can
get. Mayor ID. A. Yeiser was seen
his morning in regard to the school
levy and stated:
"A 80 cent levy will be made and
syery cent derived fr ON il paid over
10 the school board. We figured care
fully and can secure $50, 900 from this
evy without a doubt. When we saw
This we stopped figuring AMI it is pos
,ible the total amount will exceed this
BY q great deal. If the fund derived
rom the levy reaches $50. 900. every |
cent Of IL viii te psi ov.r to 81