The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1906-09-12
SCHOOL BOARD.
Superintendent's Salary Raised
CarencrO School to Be Enlarged.
Application for Additions to
Other Schools. Tax.COl.
Iector Given Quletus.
Lafayette. La, Sept. g. 1906.

VA 49,
lowing members were present: Alex
DelhOmme, ST., Jasper Spell, DR.. G.
A. Martin, DR.. N. p. Moss, Arthur
Comeaux, G.. c.. Brown, A. D. VerrOt,
and AlclGe Judice. Absent: J.. II.
Bernard.
BY DR.. Martin, seconded by Mr..
Judice-Resolved that the salary
of the superintendent and ex-officiO
secretary be fixed at $1,000 per year.
Carried unanimously.
Mr.. Brown stated that the attend
ance at the Carencro school had in
creased to such an extent as to make
it necessary to use part of the grand
stand on the race track as a school
room. 1t would be impossible to heat
this room during winter. He there
fore reiterated the request of the citi-
zen of Carencro and urgently econ
mended that the Board take Immediate
action to give relief to the congested
and u%nsanitary condition due to over
%crOwding. The fact that two commu-
mites had consolidated with CarencrO
made the claims of the school still
stronger. Whereupon DR.. Martin
moved that the Building Committee be
instructed to take immediate steps to
enlarge the school according to plans
and specifications to be prepared by
them. Seconded by. Mr.. Spell and
carried.
A committee composed of DR.. Bur-
kett, j. b. Bordeaux, Sebastian Ben
oft, Clebert BOdOin requested that the
Milton school be enlarged and that
TRANSFORMATION be furnished those
pupils Of the district too far to walk
to school. The Board authorized the
superintendent to confer with the SUI
p~erintendent of Vermilion to enlist,the
cooperation of that parish.
A committee composed of Antoine
Conque, Albert Mouton, Geo. Hall,
Alcee GuidrOZ, Martin Prejean, The
renee Guidroz, Fafit Guillot, Alcide
San Phillip, Gabriel Dugas, Alexan-
DIRE Hernandez, Cleobule Babineaux,
L. E. Bernard, Felix Mouton, Felix
Richard, Emile Martin, Jno. Guidroz
and Etienne MOutOn appeared and re.
ported q great increase in the attend
ance of the Guidroz school and re-
quested that the Board build a new
house to replace the present dilapi-
dated and inadequate The in
crease in the attendance upon the
schools of the parish and the ume
demands made for more school
houses compelled the Board to defer
action until the Police Jury made it's
budget for 1907.
The petition of Messrs. Chas. Burke,
Lot Larver, Elol Duhon and Luc Du-
hon for 81 additional room was pre-
sented. Action deferred pending bud
get of Police Jury for 1907.
Ben Avant, Btse Lagneaux, Leh-
man Spell, VOORHEES, Foreman, Ursin
Hoffpauir, Clarence Avant, Silas
HOffpauir, Leonard Deniernitt and
Preston Hoffpauir asked for a school
house for the Bethel school. Action
deferred as above.
Onezippe Trahan, Alphonse Brous-
sard, Alex Broussard, Remi Brous-
sard, Eloi BONN, Ellen Dominique,
Louis Talbot, Meo Broussard, Eloi
Br0ussard, Marcellus Verot asked for
the consolidation of Pilette and Verot
schools into one to be centrally To-
Gated. They offered 800 in cash to be
applied to the new school.
J.. O. BrOussard and Sigismond Ber-
nard presented o counter petition for
the erection of a modern house at Pr
lette. Renew the proposition made at
q previous meeting. The Board de-
ferred action to enable a personal in
vestigation.
Mr.. J. Edmond Mouton, who had
charge of the repairs on the Mouton
Switch school, reported the compile
ton of the work including the extern
sion of the room eleven feet, building
of two galleries, fues, etc. The Board
accepted the report and thanked Mr..
MOutOn.
After considering several houses
offered for use as a school room, the
Orleans Hotel at $25 per month, the
old Defez mattress factory at $40, and
the Moss building opposite the new
school grounds, at SIS, the Board de-
cided to rent the last named on ac-
count of its large size and its proximity
to q large play ground for the chill.
dren.
The auditing committee of the Board
represented by DR.. Moss and Mr.. AL.
reported having checked up
the books of the parish treasurer to
July l, and granted him a ~quietus. |
The repOt was accepted.
The Auditing Committee also re-
having examined the accounts
of the Sheriff and Exofficio Tax Col
L. Lacoste, and found them
correct and all funds due the Parish
School Board duly and fully account
ed for, the following was adopted:
Resolved that the Boad does hereby |
grant the Sheriff and Ex-oficio Tax |
. quietus for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1905.
Lafayette, La, Sept. Z, 1905.
Sherif's statement for all taxes
collected to June I, 1905.
BY special school taxes, 1906
...,....$178 ~ |
By supplementary list........ 43 rs |