Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-16
BOARD OF EDUCATION.
Teachers VIII Be Pleased With inc
 Nwe System of Payment. l

At last nights meeting of the board of education Vice Chairman Chapman submitted a plan for a new pay roll for the teachers and it was adopted by the board. The new plan is con- sfdered far superior to the present one and meets with the hearty approval of Mayor Elton, the commissioners of the board of education and finance, Comptroller Goodrich and the officials of the bank. The new method or paying the teachers will be more con- venient to all parties concerned, the teachers, the bank officials and tho school clerk.
 MT Chapman's plan is much sim- pier than the one now in vogue. Af- ter the teachers pay rolls have been approved by the board of education and finance, checks will be sent by the school clerk to the teachers. These checks, which will correspond to ene amount of the teachers salaries, can be cashed at any time, at any bank or other place of business. Under the present method teachers had to walk from Town Plot or Saw Mill Plain to the bank and sign the pay roll. It took up much of the teach ers' time and required the bank to. keep open after hours. All this will be done away with under the new Chapman system.
 Owing to the fact that a change was made dn the placing of insurance on the school buildings, the board or education has netted a rebate of $418, the difference between the old rate of 100 per cent and the new one of so per cent of the amount laid. So the board was informed by Root & Boyd, But this rebate is causing the board much trouble. They are trying how to devise plan to keep the rebate for new insurance and not have it go into the city treasury. The latter course is the regular one, but the members of the board of education do not think 1t right that money appro- priated for the insurance of school buildings should be turned over to the city treasury and spent for some thing else. The board cannot receive the money in cash or check as the charter prohibits any department re- ceiving public funds in case like the present and reservdng it for it's own use. If the money is returned to the city treasury. the board of edu- cation may as well bid adieu to 1t. Tn order to give the members time to consider the problem. the matter of receiving the rebate was referred to the committee on school houses and hygiene.
 A bill from Contractor Edward s. Fianigan for $940 for the completion of a new room at the Mulcahy school was received. Architect Asheim said that the work was all right, but School Inspector TyrreIl thought that there were some little defects. The bill was approved subject to the ap- proval of the committee on school houses.
 The board passed a vote asking the board of finance why they had in creased Miss Elizabeth Kane's salary S75 when the board of education recommended only $50 increase, and why 1t had increased Miss Etta Ha- gar's salary $50 when no increase was recommended. The commissioners be- lieve that the board of finance went beyond its powers when 1t voted these changes and was usurping the rightA of the educational board. 1t is not long since City Attorney Kellogg gave an opinion that the board of finance had no right to fix salaries.