Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-01
RADICAL CHANGES IN VIEW
Bills Prepared for Presentation Next Session of Legislature Teachers Pension Bi Tenure of Office of Board Mem
 bers, and the Making of Life Positions.

The committee appointed by the
 board of education to take care of cer- tain proposed legislation reported
 progress on the following bills last
 evening:
 An Act to Provide for Tenure of Office for Public School Teachers and for the Creation and Disbursement of a Public School Teachers Retirement Fund in the City of Waterbury: It is enacted by the general assembly as follows:
 Section l. The teachers, principals, superintendents and clerks of the de- partment of education of the city of Waterbury now in office and who have been for three years, and those here
 after appointed, after a probationary
 service of three years, shall hold their office and membership in said depart
 ment until dismissed for cause by Q
 two-thirds vote of the board of educa. 1 ton in full and regular session.
 Sec 2. The salaries of all employees affected by this act shall be fixed at such time as the board of education
 may determine, but in no case shall they be decreased.
 Sec 3. The board of education of
 the city of Waterbury shall have pow,
 CT to establish what shall be known as the public school teachers retirement
 administered by the board of trustees
 hereinafter provided for. Said fund
 shall consist of:
 First. All moneys received from do- ! nations, legacies, gifts, bequests or otherwise, for or on account of said fund.
 Second. Also all moneys deducted
 for time lost by teachers, and other Ibeneficiaries.
 Third. On and after September list, 1905, the board of finance of said city
 upon recommendation of the board of
 education, shall reserve from the Jan uary payroll in each year and cause to be turned over to treasurer of said fund one per cent of the salaries paid to the teachers, provided that no teach CT shall be assessed for more than one per cent of $1,200 per annun1. Section 4. The president of chair l man of the board of education, togeth- CT with three members chosen by said 1 board, the superintendent of schools, | the city treasurer of the city of Water bury, who shall be ex-ofhcio the treas urer of said fund, and three represent atives to be elected annually by the 1 teachers of the public schools, shall 1 form board of trustees who shall 1 have charge of and administer said fund, and said board of trustees shall have power to invest and re-invest the
 same as shall be deemed by them most
 beneficial to said fund, and shall make l payment from said fund of annuities granted in pursuance of this act; and shall from time to time make and es- l tablish such rules and regulations for l the administration of said fund as they l shall deem best.
 l Meetings of said board of trustees shall be held on the second Wednesday
 of January, May and September in I each year.
 Section g. Whenever a teachers
 pay roll shall be certified to the board
 of finance for payment, it shall con-
 tain statement of the amount to be l deducted for lost time from the salary of each teacher in accordance with the
 provisions of this act, which amounts shall be added by said city treasurer
 to said retirement fund; and all amounts received by said treasurer for said fund, in accordance with the pro visions of this act, shall be subject to
 the order of said board of trustees
 signed by the president and secretary of said board.
 Section G. Every teacher who has
 annually contributed to said fund in | accordance with the provisions of this l act for at least five years, or who shall
 at one time have paid an
 amount equal to five years contributions, plus eight per cent
 thereof, and shall have taught not less than thirty years, of which time twenty-five years shall have been spent in teaching fin Water bury, may be retired and shall have the right voluntarily to retire from such service and become beneficiary
 under this act; and every teacher so retired or retiring shall be entitled to an annuity for the remainder of his or her life, to be paid by said board of trustees out of said fund, equal to one
 half of the salary of such teacher at the time of such retirement, at the same times and in the same propor-
 tions as the salaries of teachers are paid:
 Provided, that any teacher who upon the certificate of three physicians is shown to be physically unfit to con- tinue his or her work, may be retired by vote of the board of education. In case of such retirement, after service
 of twenty-five years in Waterbury, full annuity shall be paid, and after SCIFdCC OI LWCHLy OHS-IAuu OI Cuc salary at time of retirement shall be paid as an annuity:
 Provided, that the annuity so paid shall in no case exceed six hundred
 dollars in any one year. Section T. In case the fund shall be insufficient to pay the annuities pro- yided for in section of this act, the city of Waterbury shall make an ap-
 propriation not to exceed an amount
 of one per cent of the salaries paid to
 teachers. Any further sum. required
 for this shall be assessable equally be-
 tween the teachers and the city of Wa
 terbury.
 Section 8. The provisions of this
 act shall apply only to officers and
 teachers employed by the board of ed
 ucation of said city.
 Section 9. Tn case of the dismissal
 of any beneficiary under this act ali
 yearly assessments shall be returned
 to said person.
 Section 10. Any provision i'll the
 cb a r.tn1. of the .ity of Waterbury con-