Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-06-22
Miners In Eastern Ohio
To Have Labor Temple
Wheeling Teachers
Will Be Pensi0ned

PENSIONS for Wheeling school teach
ers now only await a final vote by the
Board of Education to become an es-
tablished fact. The special committee
has completed the draft of the regula-
lions for the establishment of the re-
tirement fund.- and at next Tuesday
nights meeting of the board the whole
matter will be finally disposed Of 1t
Is certain that it will pass. The teach
ers have worked long and hard to Sc
kcure the establishment of the fund, and
they have brought public sympathy to
| their side, and it is believed that the
Board generally favors the plan.
On account of the general interest of
the subject, the proposed regulations of
the fund are. given herewith in full:
| Regulations.
Section l. In accordance with the.
Act passed by the Legislature of West
Virginia, February 10, 1915, entitled "a
Bill Authorizing the Establishment Of
| a School Teachers Retirement Pension
Fund for the School District of Wheel
| ing" the Board of Education of said
district does hereby establish a teach
ers' retirement fund for the public
school teachers Of the School District
of Wheeling.
The said fund shall be under the
management and control Of board of
trustees which shall consist of seven
members. viz: President of the Board
Of Education and three members of the
same elected to that body, Superintend-
ent-of Schools one principal and one
teacher elected by the teachers Of the
public schools of Wheeling.
Sec. g. The election of the members
OF said board Of trustees shall be held
when two-thirds of the teachers have
accepted the provisions of this Act.
The three members elected at the first
election by and from the Board of Edu-
cation shall serve as follows: one for
year, one for years and one for 8
years. Thereafter, they shall serve for
three years or until their successors
are elected and qualified and without
compensation.
Sec. 8. The clerk of the Board of
Education shall notify each teacher in
the public schools Of the School Dis
trict of Wheeling, by notice in writ
ing of the establishment of this fund,
and require the teachers to notify the
Board Of Education in writing within
sixty days from the date of said no
tice whether they accept or decline to
accept the provisions of law for Great
ing such fund. After the election of
the board of trustees herein provided
for, ten deductions of $500 each shall
be made every year by the clerk of the
Board of Education from the salary
check of each teacher who accepts said
provisions, such sum to be paid into
and applied to the credit of said pen
sion fund, and such sum shall continue
to be deducted until six hundred dol
lars shall have been contributed by
said teacher or teachers.
All persons employed for the first
time. as teachers by the said Board of
Education after the establishment of
said fund shall be deemed new teach |
ers for the purpose of this Act. New
teachers shall, by accepting. employ
ment as such, accept the provisions of
this Act and thereupon become coz
tributors to said pension fund in ac
cordance with the terms hereof, and !
the provisions of this Act shall become
part of and enter into such contract
of employment. Any teacher under
lawful age must have the written con-
sent of parents or guardian before en-
tering into said contract.
Sec. 4. All moneys received from do |
nations. legacies, gifts, requests. or
from any other outside source shall be
paid into said fund. or into perman-
emit fund. If paid into a permanent |
fund, only the interest thereof shall be
applied to the payment of pensions.
Sec s. The said Board of Education |
shall pay annually into said retire /
ment fund such sum of money as
shall. in addition to the contributions
made by the teachers and contributions
from other source, be sufficient to en- |
sure the payment of all annuities for
the current year authorized by the i