The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-10-12
Board Of Education Decides
Annual Budget.
AN INCREASE OF s1,e45.
Costs District About Twenty Dollars
for Each Pupil; Non'Residents
Get Cheaper Education.
from Fridays Daily.

FROM FlOdy > Ddlly.
At the special meeting of the school
board yesterday afternoon the tax levy
was made. All of the members were on
hand except DR.. Snow and Mr. Davies,
who are out of the city.
DIR. Beach for the committee on
finance presented report, recommend
ing that $22,750 be levied, of which
S20,350 should be for the general fund,
81 800 for improvements, and 5000 for
interest on bonds. This would be an
increase of $l,750 over last year, when
the district ran behind $500 1t would
give $3.50 more than appeared to be
needed. but would make the levy Just
six and a half mills. :,
President Hughes stated that last
wear 81 .O95 was levied for interest on
bonds aside from the regular levy, so
that the increase recommended by the
committee would be only $655, which he
die not think enough. This year $1,000
would have to be levied for interest on
bonds, according to directions from the
state treasurer.
lengthy discussion followed, in
which it was stated that while there
had beer $1,000 of extraordinary i'm
provements paid for this year, includ-
ING the Broad street paving and the
Franklin school sewer and water extern
sion, next year more than $4,000 would
be spent for the heating plant for the
Franklin building. This would leave the
district several thousand dollars short
at the beginning of the next year, until
money came in from the levy. The sal
aries are $500 greater than last year.
1t was finally voted that $22,750 be
levied. aside from the 81 300 that must
be levied to pay the interest on the
bonds held by the state. This will make
total levy of $24,04O, as compared
with a total levy last year of S22,O95,
and should place the district in excellent
financial condition, with careful man.
agement.
Mr.. Coughlan brought up the matter
of cutting out some of the trees on the
Union school ground. and DIR. Holbrook
! favored cutting out half of the trees on
the north side of the building. Mrs.
Smith moved that the matter be left to
the committee on property and expense
with power to act, and this was carried.
| The finance committee recommended
that 81 900 of the insurance on the high
school building carried in the former
Rose agency be taken out with II. +.
Leonard. and that $1,000 be taken out
with the Theo. Williams agency. This
was adopted on DR.. Beach's motion.
DIR. Beach asked what the tuition
charge was for nonresident pupils, and
Superintendent Mcconnell said that it
was 81 month below the eighth grade
and $l50 month in the eighth grade.
| DR.. Beach said that it cost the dis
trict $4,000 year to run the schools,
which with 1000 pupils averages $50
wear each. He didn't know why the
district paid this and only charged 81
and $3.50 a month for tuition of non
residents. He was in favor of charging
| 81 a month. which would still be less
than cost. Most of the nonresident pu-
pills are in the eighth grade, where the
| conditions are the most crowded.
Superintendent Mcconnell said that
many schools are charging slightly high
er rates than Mankato is, and it would
rot be unreasonable to charge a little
| more.
The committee on property and eX-
pense was authorized to advertise for
bids for furnishing the district with fiji
ty cords of maple or oak wood and
twenty five cords of soft wood, bids to
be received at the next regular meeting.
Superintendent Mcconnell presented
the following statistical report for Sep
to,nhar.