Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-09-12
TIE COMMISSIONS PROPOSAL.

TIE COMMISSIONS PROPOSAL
The plan the Commission offers as presenting the best adjust
mcnts i'll its estimation of the demands of public schools
may be briefly outlined follows:
That for every biennial period the Department of Public
Instruction shall prepare Judg Of estimates setting forth
the needs OF the Public Schools for the ensuing years.
This budget shall he prepared under two divisions namely
the GENERAL FUND and the SPECIAL FUND
The GENERAL FUND shall include the salaries of teach
crs and supervisors salary of the Superintendent salaries of
tie office force and the general incidental expense supplies
incidental to instruction in the various subjects of the course
study the expense of manual and industrial training medical
inspection, libraries and hooks
The SPECIAL FUND shall include supplies for maintcn.
and upkccP Of coo'hosc, shops cottages and outbud
ngs and construction of buildings and of grounds
furniture, fixtures and iauor service and all supplies not in
clulcd under the General Fund
This bUdgc when completed by the Board of Public In,
ruction shall be- submitted Board of Estimates consist
ING OF six memc four of whom shall be the Charmen the
Boards of Supervisors of the Counties of the Territory
the Secretary of the Territory and the sixth Supcrntend
cnt of Public Instruction, cxoco The Board shall serve
without pay except mileage expenses 81 ,,..
The duty OF the Boa,d of Estimates shall be to 90 over the
Budgct and make such rcvons may be deemed proper
This Board Of Estimates shall have authority to change
that pant of the General Fu dealing with administration and
The salaries of teachers supervisors and inspectors recommend
cd by the Department of Public Instruction. School accomno.
dation shall be estimated the basis of than forty
pupils teacher for ccncrs of population Provision
be made for children in oucd districts by school houses
suitable transportation to a central school
The SCHOOL BUDGET having been passed upon by the
Board of Estimates shall then be presented thirty days before
the opening of the Legislature to the Governor, who shall
submit the to the Lcgsatur' within days after
opens in regular session, with his recommendations Should
the Board of Estimates fail within the time specified
the estimates of the Board of Public INSTRUCTION shall be sub
mittcd to the Legislature by the Governor direct
PROVIDING THE FUNDS
The FUNDS TO meet the appropriations called for in the
SCHOOL BUDGET shall be derived from the following
The SCHOOL TAX of dollars paid by every male in
habant between the ages of twenty and sixty years;
FIFTY PER CENT OF THE INCOME FROM PUB
Lie LANDS sales, leases and water licenses;
SPECIFIC TAX ON THE REAL PROPERTY AND
Personal PROPERTY OF THE TERRITORY repre-
scented by levy of many mills the dollars of real prop
ry and personal property may be necessary the
difference between the called for under the General Fund
of the School Budget and the total of the School Personal Tax
the Public Lands income and any other permanent Of
income devoted public schools For instance if the General
Fund of the School Budget called for $500 OOOS1OO
might be secured from the personal $25OOOO from the
fifty per cent of the income public lands leaving %45OOO0
to be raised by specific of three mills the dollar est
mating the assessed value of the real and personal property
at $lJ0,0O0,00O.