The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-08-27
OvtR0RAFT IS NOT PAID NOW.
Council Committee Insists That School
Board Must Bear Portion of the Fl
nancial Shortage Of the City-Fund
lis $4,000 More Than Last Year.

The city Of Kenosha will contribute
$4,000 to the maintenance Of the
schools Of the city during the coming
year This was agreed upon at joint
meeting Of the finance committees Of
the city council and the board of edu-
cation held at the Offices of the board
in the city hall on Tuesday evening
The amount to be levied for school
purposes was not satisfactory either to
the members Of the school board or
the council, but it was compromise
and as such will be accepted by both
committees and probably by the coun-
ell. The members of the school board
committee have reserved the right to
appear before the council and make a
personal plea for levy in the full
amount named in the budget of the
board, but even they realize that it
win be a hard matter to get from the
council a levy larger than that recon-
mended by the finance committee.
The budget asked by the board com
mittee amounted to little over
$500 This included an item of
$4,000 to pay off part Of the over
draft claimed by the board. There is
NO actual overdraft, but under the
theory of the board members the
amount of money levied for the schools
should not be touched until the first of
July of next year Conditions of the
finances of the board at this time in
dicate that the board win have to use
~ the neighborhood Of $S1 600 Of the
funds levied for the school year from
July list, 1915, to July LIST, 1916, be-
fore the first Of July Of next year.
This viii leave a big shortage in the
amount for the school year for which
the tax was levied. The committee
spent more than two hours discussing
tEe budget as prepared by the finance
committee of the school board and the
aldermen were convinced that the
members of the board had acted fairly
in making up the estimates of the. cost
of maintaining the schools for the com
ing year. The overdraft was the one
point on which there was serious dis
agreement. Members of the board in,
sisted that the city should levy tax
now to reduce this overdraft and make
provisions for an increase in the funds
from year to year in order to get the
schools square from financial stand
point. The members of the council
held that with the cutting Of every
fund of the council to the quick there
was no reason why the school board
should not bear some Of the financial
shortage The amount agreed upon
by the joint sessions Of the committee
is nearly thirty thousand dollars in ex-
cess of the amount given the schools
In the last tax levy 1t will amount
to practically five mill tax on all the
property of the city. When it is taken
into consideration that the single item
OF teachers salaries is within 1880 of
100000 people will appreciate that it
VIII be difficult to make any large re-
duction in the amount of the school
ta& levy. The members Of the board
hold that some of the buildings are oct
ting old ana that bills for repairs are
correspondingly larger than they have
been in other years.
1t is thought that the levy proposea
by the finance committee will be
adopted by the council without d.
vision