The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-12-19
State Agents in investigation
Find No Discrepancy in
the Records of Treasurer
Lee Nusbaum.
MEMBERS OF BOARD
ARE GIVEN PRAISE
Local Schools Not Excelled
in Indiana, Field Examin-.
ers Report-Business Ag-
ent Is Suggested.

John l.. Fulling and John W. Barlow.
state field examiners. who examined
the books of the treasurer OF the local
school board, for the period covering
August l. 1909. to July 81, 1911. have
completed their report and it is now
on file at the office Of the school
board and open for inspection. The
report commends the treasurer of the
board and the other members of the
body upon their work. showing that
during that time there was an expendi-
ture of more than $5eO, ZOO without a
single discrepancy. The body of the
report is a repetition of the reports
published annually by the treasurer,
Lee B. Nusbaum
According to the examiners, the
Richmond school corporation has not
been excelled in actual results for
money expended. The examiners re-
port that the financial interests of
the school corporation have been look
ed after ably and carefully by the
school board. The examiners suggest
it would be advisable to employ bus
mess agent or director for the school
corporation.
Makes Commentary.
In the report the following commen-
tary is made by the examiners:
'On the completion of the examina-
ton of this school city it is the pleas
ure of your examiners to report that
the finances have been administered
faithfully and well. 1t is evident that
extreme good judgment has character
lied the actions of all the school Off
GERS and We very frankly concede,
that, after reviewing all the evidence
at hand, this corporation. on COM
parative basis, has not been excelled
in actual results for money expended" !"
Suggestions made by Examiners
Fulling and Barlow in regard to a
business agent or director of the
corporation are as follows:
while not presuming to direct in
a matter of policy of administration
and while the financial interests Of
the corporation have been very ably
administered by the city superinten-
dent and the school board, it appears
evident that the time is not distant,
if not actually now at hand, when it
would be advisable to employ a bus
mess agent or director for the corpor-
alton. There can be no question that
the detail involved in the erecting of
a school building such as the new
high school ore even in the inspection
and care of all normal financial opera
tions in a corporation representing an
assessment, approximately, of S15,-
900 100000, represents an enormous ex-
penditure of energy on the part of the
superintendent of schools and the
school board not realized by the Or
dinary citizen.
The school city should be in po-
sition to make the best possible use of
the professional and administrative
abilities of it's superintendent, and the
school board should not be compelled
to devote its time to so much minutae
and detail as it is now doing. The
corporation wants yet, in the future,
to offer an attractive place in her en-
ploy to business and professional men
of the type she has had in the past
But with the salary merely nominal
and with the duties of a board men,
ber so fully occupied with detail. the
position at present is not enticing.
Hence We conclude that. inasmuch as
this corporation has grown so large
and the multiplicity of financial detail
so great, it might be very advisable on
the part of the school board to adopt
such measures as may appear wise for
the solution of the above problem"