The Penn's Grove record., 1913-04-11


! liver to said board a bond in a sum fxet
by the board, conditioned for the faithful
perforI uance OF the duties of his Office.
Said bo.,rd may accept the bond or un-
dertaking Of a trust company, or surety
or indemnity company, and pay the au-
nual premium or fee therefor as a current
expense of said board. He shall record
in a suitable book all proceeding of the
Board of Education, of the annual school
meetings and of special school meetings.
He shall pay out by orders on the custo-
| dian of school moneys of the school dis
trict, and in the manner prescribed by
law, all school moneys of the district.
He shall keep a correct and detailed &C.
count of all expenditures of school mon
eys in the district, and shall report to the
board at each regular meeting the amount
for which warrants shall have been
drawn since the date OF his last report,
the accounts against which said warrants
shall have been drawn, and the balance
to the credit of each account. At each
annual school meeting he shall present
his record books and his accounts for
public inspection and shall make a state
ment of the financial condition of the
district"
Mr.. Layton at the meeting asked for a
report of finances according to ~the..above
law, but such has been considered i'm
pertinent. Others have asked the same
repeatedly but not definite information
has been learn by any member OF the
Board of Education. That's one of the
reasons for3 blank votes being cast for
clerk.
The members OF the Board OF Educa-
ton know about as much as to the schoH
financial expenditures of SIC, 900 as the
citizens who have not had a statement
from the clerk to read for years. No
bond, as required by law, has ever been
asked.
Do they want to know where $50, 900
will be put.
Laws are made for the direction and
regulation Of all public business. This is
a government of law and all any citizen
asks is that school supplies, facilities and
business be transacted according to the
laws of the State and not according to the
personal interest, within or caprice of any
one, be he ignorant or have a knowledge
of the law
@, Learning that. the action Monday eve
ming to submit a proposition to raise
$50, OCO by a motion was not legal. and
requires a resolution, another meeting
was held Wednesday evening when a
resolution WAS passed. Messrs. Denny,
Cunningham, Hunt, Cable and Keen
were present.
The form in the School law giving Di-
r%ectioDs for Bonding a District reads as
follows:
"Tllere must be regularly called meet
ing Of the Board of Education. of which
meeting all members must have had not
ice. The notice may be given verbally
or by mailing a written notice. II the
latter, the notice must be mailed in am
pie time to be received before the time
fixed for the meeting. At that meeting
the Board OF Education must decide on
the amoun of money thought to be nee
essary. If land is to be purchased, the
Board OF Education must decide upon the
site or sites it thinks suitable"
The motion passed March 8 to adopt
the plan of another architect which was
exhibited at the time of the election has
not been re-considered nor was the new
plan adopted.
Some enjoy playing politics and self in
terest in school affairs. The oath OF Of
fee presumes that public education as
prescribed by law, is believed in by
members OF the Board of Education and
that they are there to advance education
for the benefit oil the next and future
generations,
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