The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-28
SCHOOLS TO COST
MORE NEXT YEAR
Board of Education Estimates
the Necessary Increase
at t$S7,OOO.
NEARLY HALF OF SUM
GOES TO THE TEACHERS
Amount Needed for the Ensuing
Term Is Placed at
S738,0O

Tt will take approximately So'uoo
| more 10 run the schools of Salt Lake
City the coming school year than this.
The board Of education met Tuesday
evening and made mp the estimate of
the expenses for the school year OF
1909-10, beginning July |, this year,
The estimate was fixed at $73S, GOO, dis
tributed as follows:
For support and maintenance of
schools. $593,00O
For payment Of interest on bonds,
$42 600
For sinking fund necessary to be col
lectcd, $4,000.
For purchase of sites and erection Of
school buildings. $4,000.
Total. $13S,000.
This is an increase of $S7 900 over
last year, the estimated expenses for
190S-1909 being $651 600. Forty thou
sand dollars, or almost half, of the
increased expenditure will go to the
school teachers in salaries. The rest
of the increase, 81 900, is pretty even
" distributed among the other items
of expense.
Salary Of Teachers.
The teachers the coming year will
receive in salaries 100000. as against
S360,000 this year. an increase of $40
600. as set out The rest of the item
of $4,000 for the support and main
tcnance Of schools is divided as fol
lows:
General expenses, $4,000; :ianitors'
salaries, $5S,OO0; ianitors' supplies.
$4,000: fuel and light. $4,000; books
aud other school supplies, $55.0o0;
maintenance and repairs of buildings,
S65,0O0: rent. $1,000; furniture and other
apparatus, $500: total. with teachers
salaries of 100000, $593,00O.
The tax levy for this wear is ninc
mills. but on account of the necessity
of raising the interest on bonds and
providing for the sinking fund the levy
the coming year probably will have TO
be boosted 10 the limit, 90 mills. The
president and clerk of the board were
instructed TO certify the estimated eX-
pense to the several county officers
The following resolution from the
committee on teachers and school work.
intended TO make it easier for the clerk
TO compute teachers salaries and make
up the monthly pay rolls with more
ease than heretofore, was adopted:
Resolution Adopted.
mat teachers contracts for 1909 1910
cover a period OF service of thirty eight
That the school year be divided into
two Semesters of nineteen weeks each,
and each semester into two terms the
first term 10 contain ten weeks. and the
second term nine weeks.
That the salary for the year be sepa-
rated into ten equal irstallments. each
to be paid within one week OF the close
of the period covered by the instalment:
provided. that at the end Of the FIRST two
weeks OF school the amount then due
each teacher shall he paid and at the
end of the month the balance OF the in
stallnent due a I that time shall he paid:
provided. further, that for the last three
weeks OF service in each semester each
teacher shall receive in addition 10 three
fourths OF one installment many nine
tecnths of one-fourth OF one installment
as the weeks she has taught as regular
teacher during the semester are nine
teenths of the number OF weeks in the
semester; but proportionate reduction
shall be made for absence TO eXcecd five
DAYS for any cause other than sickness.
That regular compensation be allowed
for only such holidays as fall on school
days
This resolution it will be observed,
cuts the teachers out of pay for Christ
mas and New Years days
Friday, June 4, 1909, was set apart
for field day for the schools.
The superintendent was given author
ity to secure a suitable place for the
high school commencement exercises
this wear