Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-23
EXPENDITURES
Per cent
OF Increase

l Deficit IL salaries are not
Increased and tax rate re- mas no, ,o |
The increase Of the school tax rate to six
mills the legal limit will not give the
Board Of Education sufficient funds to meet
the demands OF their employees for 10
per cent increase in wages and still main
tain the school system at the present stand
ard in 1918, even though no permanent
improvements be paid for from current
receipts. according TO persons In close
touch with the situation. They produce
ngures-now for the first time available-to
show how the increased cost of all items
viii use up the increased income.
The assessed value of property on which
taxes are levied has increased s46,573,OOO.
70 s1766 539 900. over last year At six
mills this will give the board $1O,b99, lsS.
It is estimated that the State appropriation
will be approximately that Of last year, or
ts75,55177. 1t is also estimated that the
miscellaneous income will be about 10 per
cent higher than in 1916, which will make
It S14l.30222. Thus the total income OF
the board at the six-mill rate Will be ap-
proximately S11,714O51.9s.
The total expenditures for 1915 were
S124S1026. Included in this are $2,144,-
oe1.73 for permanent improvements financed
by thirty-year loans This leaves balance
of $1O.336,9 ,934.27 paid from current receipts
for actual operation and maintenance of the
school system.
NORMAL INCREASES IN COSTS
The number of teachers will normally in
crease from 6322 in 1915 to $3.50 in 1918.
At the average salary of slO65' the norma.
increase in this amount will be 1921 $50. A
10 per cent increase in salary will add
$g92S97.63 to the item, or total or
ss1s.sO9.76, bringing it to S7.s15,1s7.3s.
The number OF clerical assistants would
normally increase from 279 in 1915 to 295
IN 1918 At $500 each this item will be
raised $4,000. 10 per cent increase in
rate of pay would add $21,92134, bringing
II to $153,134.71.
The number of engineers and janitors
have remained virtually the same. They
have threatened to go strike unless they
receive a 10 per cent increase in salary.
This would amount to S57,S672l, bringing
the item to $636539.33.
The cost of books will very nearly have
doubled in 1918, but fewer are now being
used. according to the estimate. This item
was S217,7S478 in 1916. An increase of
SO per cent will raise It $10s.S92.39, to
9326,677.17 However the largest per-
centage of increase, on good authority, has
been in stationery and supplies and in print
ing and incidentals. The advance in 1918
over 1916 is estimated to be 100 per cent
st the least This would increase the
amount S386,5s7.44, to $773,174ss. Re-
pairs to buildings replacement of equip.
ment, repairs to equipment, new equipment,
fuel. etc. amounted to SS39,059.51 in 1915.
Figured at an increase of 20 per cent-the
lowest possible with all economy-these
will be $I67,S11.90 higher in 1918, making
the total 81. .006,s ,s71.41.
Rents and ground rents win remain ap-
proximately the same as in 1916. These |
amount to $26,024. The payment on loans
will remain approximately in 1916 |
totaling s1,241l6S.46. Other items Of ex-
pense. figured at an increase of 20 per !
cent, will be $43.O09.39 higher than in 1916, |
bringing the amount to S25s.056,35.
TOTAL MILLION AND THREE-FOURHS |
Summing up these amounts we have a |
total increase of s1,699,s99.43 over 1915 |
The total expenditures in 1918 will amount |
to $12,0S6,s33.70, according to these fig |
ures. No provision is made in them fer |
building. In his report of 1916 Secretary |
William Dick said
"A complete dependence on bond issues
for the purchase of sites and the erection
Of buildings and additions will before long
not only saddle the school district with an
burden Of carrying charges but
will place the district in the position of re-
crease its debt limit" The bonded debt
n the board is now approximately $14,-
100000.
DEFICIT CERTAIN, WITH HIGHER TAX
the income for 1918 being approximately
and the expenditures being
estimated at $12.036. .s33 90. there will be a
keecit Of SS62,7s171. The 10 per cent in
grease In salaries amounts to $764 07S.31 |
if the campaign now being carried on by
l&achers. clerical assistants, janltors and
Engineers is not successful, and salaries are
not raised. the board will have a surplus
~ Sf01, ,29660. II the tax rate Is kept at
the present level OF five mills there will be
, dencit OF S1,36s,2s640. even though sala-
ries are not raised.
Secretary Dick is now preparing the bud.
set for 1918, which will be presented 70
the board at their meeting on the second
Tuesday in November. He refuses 10 talk !
pn the subject at the present time The |
budget is complied from the figures for |
Iat6, the last year for which final figures
arc available and from those for the part
81 1917 now passed
In past years there has been about ga
per cent Of the incOme from tax that has
not been collected. However, this has been |
1toro than balanced by collecting deiIn-
1uent taxes from other years. During The
roming year. owing to the increase In the
'1tt. Il Is probable that these two items
N1n almost exactly balance one another.