The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-09-07
SCHOOL TAX
4 IL MILLS
Estimated Expenses for Running
Schools Fixed At
$126,OOO
BOND ISSUE OF $4,000 FOR
NEW SCHOOLS is PLANNED
At Meeting of Board of Education
Secretary kumler Is Authorized
to Buy a Map, and Decision
Made to Paint Fences.

The sum of $4,000 will be spent
during the coming year by school
district No. T. comprising the schools
of North Yakima. Fifteen thousand
dollars of this amount will be used to
pay off s per cent bonds due next
after some discussion at the meeting
of the board of education at the
High school last night Funds COM
ing in from state approtionment and
from special county funds will
amount to $4,000, leaving $4,000
to be raised by direct taxation next
year. This will mean a tax levy for
school purposes of IA or 1-2
mills, on an expected appraised value
of city property of $11,O00,O00.
In addition to these expenses, two
new schools will be needed, and a
further bond issue OF probably $40,-
90 for constructing an S-room school
building on Capitol hill and a 4-room
building in Leamingburg will prob
ably be put before the public at the
the next election of a school board
Lowest Tax in Years.
The tax assessment this year will
be the lowest for many years. 1t was
"a last year, owing to the large
debt that had to be cancelled.
After ordering paid all the current
bills for light, water, telephones and
insurance, Secretary Kumler was
directed to buy a map of the school
district for Superintendent Reed, and
the secretary's heart was made happy
by being permitted to buy SIS worth
of paint for each school with which
to paint the fences.
1t is possible that the school situa-
ton may be complicated by a regis
tration today far in excess of the ex-
pectations of the authorities on &C
count of recent additions to the city.
For number of years the education
al facilities of the city have been too
small for the students enrolled, and
one new building each year had been
found necessary. The board decided
that in case four or five hundred
students are enrolled in addition to
what there are facilities for. portable
houses will have to be added to the
present equipment.
Reed Freezes in Winter.
Some discussion took place when
Superintendent Reed announced that
during the winter his office was often
so cold on Saturdays that it was i'm
possible to remain in it, due to the
fact that the heating system of the
building without heating all the
rooms, and this means a great ex-
pense when perhaps only one room
is in use. He called attention to the
fact that it costs the city s2.S2 for
each student to heat the High school
while Columbia only costs S1.11, and
Central $1.09 Discussion brought
out the fact that the low pressure
system was the cheapest, and while
the system in use at the High school
changed the air in every room each
Is minutes, it has proved to be very
expensive Secretary Kumler was re-
quested to take the matter up with
Engineer Graham to see If changes
could not be made so that certain
sections of the building could be
heated separately, thus saving fuel to
the value of $3.50 a year.
At least 100000 valuation in
taxable land has been added to the
city since the last time the tax rate