Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-09-26
PROBLEM OF THE
CITY SCHOOLS
Paying as We Go for Perma.
nent Buildings and Equip
ment Must Cease
BURDEN IS TOO HEAVY
Member of Board of Educa-
ton Would Bond for All
But Current Expenses

But Current Expenses
EDITOR HERALD:
At the present time when our state
tax levy will be the highest in history,
it would be wise to lower any county
levy possible and l am glad to place
before your readers an explanation
of how the school levy for this district
can be reduced from a levy of ten
mills producing approximately $4,000
to levy of seven mills producing
$4,000 a saving to taxpayers of SO
per $1,000 valuation and a reduction
in district of $4,000. condensed
estimate of expenditures for ensuing
year is as follows:
0dlarleS ..................$ 69,SZS.33
Interest on warrants ..... 100000
Interest on bonds ....... 8,S3O.OO
Supplies and incidentals. $4,000. 90
Repairs Observation-Disclosures. 100000
Completion of the West
End School ............. 10000. 90
Addition to the South Alb
erdeen School .......... 100000
$125,O5S.33
Outstanding warrant indt.. 75,921.46
IOJaI .................. $ZUO,979.79
Estimate of Receipts
From State School Fund. s 22,1O4.36
From County School Fund. 23,36OO0
From uncollected taxes 90. 15,523O6
Total .....:....$ 6O,9S7.42
Total amount to be raised
by tax levy ............ .$200,979.79
Less total amount receipts 6O,987.42
Net amount to be raised
by tax levy ........... $139,992.37
Our present valuation to raise this
upon is about $7,0O0,0O0 and levy of
ten mills will raise $4,000. This is
the highest levy that can be made
and it would still leave the district
with an Indebtedness of $69,992.37.
An examination of our outstanding
warrant Indebtedness, upon which we
pay per cent interest, shows that
it accumulated from approximately
the following expenditures:
Cost of High School over
High School bond issue. 1929, 900. 90
Park School Site ......... 9,5O0.0O
Gymnasium and equipment. 100000
New buildings & equipment 100000
Sundry expense ........... 16,821.46
$4,000 of this outstanding warrant
Indebtedness represents permanent
buildings and equipment and our citi-
xens for years to come will derive
benefits from the investment, there
fore they should help bear the bur-
den of its cost, and the amount
should be refunded in bonds to run
20 years, and thus the cost will be
spread over a period of years.
The state will purchase these bonds
and interest will not exceed AZ. or
per cent. The State Bureau of In
spection of Public Offices in their re-
port of this district recommends this
step. The refunding of this amount
will not be enough to reduce the levy
and place us upon cash basis.
The completion of the West End
School and equipment will require
100000. There is also an item in the
estimate Of expense for addition to
South Aberdeen School, $4,000 Per-
sonally am opposed to this expendi-
ture Of $4,000 for a wooden addition
to the wooden building. This is the
road to a second Franklin school
building. constant source Of expense
and worry. Let us build permanent.
ly. South Aberdeen is growing very
rapidly at present, over sixty pupils
are compelled to cross over from the
South Side daily and attend either
the Terrace Heights or Franklin
schools and on January LIST a class of
about twenty more will be ready to
enter.
We should secure a site and erect
q concrete school building of not less
than eight rooms, four or six rooms
to be finished for immediate use and
the others as necessity demands This
can be done for $4,000 and then we
would have a permanent building and
bv building on the sectional plan, ad.
d NAL wings can be added until we
h twelve or sixteen rooms and this
V Id care for South Aberdeen for
y IS to come.
tese various items would call for
nd issue as follows:
7 afund warrants. .......$ $4,000. 90