The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1912-03-09
COMMISSIONER PROCEEDINGS
Board Takes Decisive Action In
the Matter of Funds Allowed
County High School

lHe 1T monthly meeting OF tine
Board of County Commissioners was
held Monday, March 4. Present, Com
m%issioners ]. B. Bale, aud Otis Fulton ;
also the District Attorney and CLERK.
The following business was transacted /:
The Commissioners and the Auditor
counted the money in the Treasury and
found the same &c agree with the County
T~reasurer's statement.
A list Of the bills allowed will be found
in another column.
The District Attorney presented and
read the opinion pr sviously ordered by
the Board in regard to the estimated
allowance asked for by the County
Board Of Education for High School
purposes. The opinion is very full and
too lengthy for reproductions by the
SENTINEL.
The Board adopted the following pre-
amble and resolutions in the matter of
the amount of money to be allowed the
County Board of Education for conduct
ing the Eureka County High School:
Whereas, in a statement made to the
taxpayers of this County by the Board
Of County Commissioners in the matter
of advocating the establishment of a
County High School, the probable cost
thereof each year was placed at a rate
of taxation not to exceed 10 cents on
each 500 valuation; and
Whereas. the feasibility of conducting
a High School in this County within a
rate of - cents upon a valuation lower
than the present one has been proven
by the County Commissioners while
acting as a County Board of Education
during the years 1909-l910; and
Whereas, an increase to and the rate of
Is ent on each 500 valuation for
the ensuing fiscal year, owing to the
increased valuation Of this County, shall
be productive of a much greater sum for
High School purposes than was found
necessary by the Board of County Com.
missioners while acting as a County
Board of Education; and
Whereas. the present County Board
of Education accepted as their first est.
mattel for High School purposes for the en-
suing year the figures of the Principal
of the High School with full knowledge
of the promises to the taxpayers as
aforesaid, and OF the past low cost of
conducting said High School, and of
the necessity for economy during the
coming year, and then after wards
has estimated, by a revised esti-
estimate, the o necessary to pay
School for the ensuing year at $500, or
an amount equal to about 1876 cents on
800 valuation; and
Whereas, the revised and itemized
estimate of said County Board of Edu-
cation as seen does not disclose any
necessity for the disproportionate in.
crease sought for. except as the same
may appear in the estimate therein of
salaries to be paid under contracts
which apparently have been entered
into prior to any appropriation to pay
the same has been made; now. there
fore, be il
Resolved, that while the Board of
County Commissioners seeks harmony
with and has great confidence in the
uninhuenced business Judgment and
the motives of the County Board of
Education and the individual members
thereof. and desires to encourage with
proper and necessary appropriations the
support of the County High School, yet
it is its opinion that to accede to the
estimate OF $500 as made by the County
Board of Education would constitute a
breach of the promises heretofore made
to the taxpayers of this County, aud
further would encourage a dispropor.
tionate and unnecessary expenditure of
public money by this department, and
further would encourage the making of
contracts before money to pay the same
had been appropriated and further,
be it
Resolved, that the Board of County
Commissioners do hereby reject
$4,000, the amount of the estimate of the
County Board of Education for High
School purposes, as unnecessarily high,
and hereby substitute and allow in place
thereof the amount of $4,000 for High
School purposes; and that said sun of
$4,000 be raised by taxation for High
School purposes and the High School
fund for the ensuing fiscal year.
The Board adjourned to March 6, and
on hat date again adjourned to March
s, owing to the absence of Commissioner
Alex Fraser. for the purpose of consid-
ering the veto of the Auditor On the
bills of Charles r. Levers and G. S.