The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-05-12
NEEO OF SCHOOLS /.
MAY RAISE TAX
RATE Is POINTS
of S64,500 Over Last
Year for Maintenance of the
Institutions.

Twenty-eight points of this years
the schools If the budget of the Board
of Education is allowed to go through
as II stands. The BOARD met last night
and made up the maintenance budget,
which. when the members got through
with it, totaled 81, 064. 40S. an increase of
however, $sT. 900 is necessary to meet
the increased payroll.
One of the newitems that was placed
on the list of requests was that of
$40, 900 TO pay the salaries of attendance
officers. At present the work is being
lone by police officers, paid by the po-
lice department, which department has
asked that the obligation be taken over
by the Board of Education.
Inspection Today.
The entire board will journey to the
various points in the city today where
school construction is needed to decide
on what the construction budget viii
be. A meeting of the buildings commit
tee will follow so that the members OF
the board viii be able to decide what
mount will be necessary for the work,
and put the construction budget in
shape for consideration by the Board
of Estimate, which will meet between
Maya15 n May 81.
Commissioner Charles p. Taylor sue
ceeded in having a motion passed to in
cfude in the budget $3.50, 900 for the con-
struction of a South Side High School
A site for such a building is now owned
by the board al Alpine street and john
son avenue. 1t was purchased several
years ago., but may be sold and a new
n secured. n
But one-other CONSTRUCTION item Went
into the budget last night. II was for
S135 900 for the erection of a sixteen
room addition to the South Sixteenth
Street School. An addition of twelve
rooms to the Fifteenth Avenue School
wal proposed. The estimated cost is
s127 900. The proposition was stopped
by Vice President Tomkins's motion tc
defer action lintn after the INSPECTION
had been made.
Wants More Additions.
Superintendent Addison B.. Poland, In
a letter sent to President Frederick f
Guild, made public last night, made
recommendations for, additions that
would necessitate a bond issue of from
$1,000, 900 to 81. 500, 900. AS the construc-
ton account, owing TO the delays in
buildings in the course of erection Ii
very full, the bond issue. whatever the
amount, will not be hoated until after
the tax ordinance of 1909 is passed
That will be following last years pre-
cedent and will save putting anything
in the levy. for new bonds, sinking
funds, and interest charges.
The superintendent recommended
through President Guild that LA class
rooms be added, nor including the High
School. The grammar school sugges-
lions alone would mean an expenditure
Of more han 1000, 900.
DR.. Poiand's Wishes.
DR.. Poland would like to have built
| two s6-roona schools, one at Bergen
street and Seventeenth avenue, and the
other at Barclay and Montgomery
streets. He wants additions built or
the South sixteenth Street, Avon Ave-
nue.. Sussex Avenue. South Eight
\ Street, Fifteenth Avenue, Seventh Ave-
nue. and Miller street Schools, and
would abandon the South Market
Street, Chestnut Street, Elizabeth Ave
nue. and Newton Street Schools.
The budget as contemplated by the
board viii necessitate the raising BY
the city Of 1854. 400. Last year the city
furnished less than $4,000 900 for the
schools on account of the. money re
ceived from the State. Secretary Rob
ert A. Argue told the board last night
that the estimated income for the main
tenance Of schools other than direc'
! city taxation would be about N,21o,00o