The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-01-24
Board Of Education Out of Funds
Asks Council to Advance
Ten Thousand Dollars
EXPERT FOR McG0vERN BILL
Committee Unable to Settle Amount
to be Paid as Extras, Asks For an
Expert Engineer to Look Into
the McGovern Bill

The Board of Education is out of
money. In fact the account is now
being carried on the red ink side in
the banks and at the meeting of the
Common Council Monday evening a
communication was received from the
finance committee of the Board asking
the Council to advance $4,000 or $15,-
600 of the new appropriation to tide
the Board over until such time as
the tax levy becomes available. 1t was
stated that at present the fund of the
Board was SIS, 900 overdrawn and more
money is needed. The Council dis
cussed the matter but it is reared that
it will be impossible to advance the
money asked by the Board. The city
treasurer will be forced to settle the
state and county taxes this month
aud as the taxes are coming in rather
slowly it is feared that there will not
be any money left to meet the de-
mands of the Board.
The Board has more than $50, 900
coming from the recent levy but it
will not be paid over to the Board un-
til after the taxes have been col
lected. The work of collecting the
taxes will be completed about the first
of March and at that time money will
be available for all the city funds. In
the meantime it is probable that the
city will be forced to spend some
money in interest in order to keep the
schools running.
The bill of M. III. McGovern, the
Chicago sewer contractor, for extras
in Connection with the building of the
Kenosha sewers was brought before
the Council again by the committee
on sewers which reported that the
members of the committee found the
bill too knotty problem for solution.
The committee suggested that it be
given power to employ an expert en-
| gineer to examine the bill and this
action was ordered by the Council.
McGovern demands $13, 400 but it is
stated that he is entitled to but small
sum for extra work
A petition was sent to the Council
Monday night asking for the paving
of Salem avenue between Rowland
avenue and Crate street, and as the
petition had the required number of
signatures it is probable that the
work will be done early IN the spring.
The street assessment committee
presented report on the proposed
paving of Rowland avenue showing
that the petition had the requisite
number of property owners. The
estimated cost of the paving is
ST., 286.10 of which the city must pay
$50, 576 10. This work will be ordered
done in the spring. There was re-
monstrance against the paving by a
small number of property owners, but
the humber and frontage was SO small
that it is probable that the protest
| will be ignored
Aftet struggling for more than two
years the members of the police and
FIRE departments are to get their in
crease in wages S the Council Mon
day night passed an ordinance fixing
a new scale of salaries for the depart
ments. The chiefs of the two depart
ments are to be paid salary Of a
thousand dollars year, while cap
tains of the fire department will re-
ceive seventy dollars a month. The
wages of firemen and patrolmen are
to be graded at the rate of SIS for the
first year, 500 for the second year and
! Sos a month to all men who have
served three years or over. This will
mean an increase to nearly every man
on the force. The ordinance provides
that the aew scale of wages goes into
effect with the beginning of the pres
ent year.
Application was made to the coun-
Gil for permit to erect a temporary
building on Main street near the cor
ner of Market street for use as an
electric theatre. The matter was re-
ferred to the committee on fire de-
partment with power to act.
The meeting was one of the short
est held by the Council in many
months and even the routine work
had been disposed of before ten
o'clock.
1t was expected that the Civic Fed
GRAFTON would have several matters to
lay before the Council, but the attor-
neys for the Federation did not APP
pear at the meeting and nothing of
this nature was taken up.
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