The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-07-10
Blaine SAYS
ACTION ILLEGAL
School Board Faces linus
ual Condition AS Result
OF Opinion OF the
Attorney General.
SALARY BOOSTS IN DOUBT
Board At Meeting On Tuesday Even
ing Lets Contract For Heating In New
Mckinley School - vice President
Bert Shaw Resigns His Office

Inc dItOIuSy Ueu6Ihl VI tH0 SlolC
has ruled that school boards have no
right to pay school teachers monies
other than are provided for in their
contracts. Under this ruling it would
appear that the bonuses which have
been paid to the teachers Of Kenosha
are illegal, but as the teachers of the
city have already received some $4,000
Of the amount, it is probable that the
belated opinion Of the Attorney General
will not be very effective.
The question was rather prominent
at the meeting of the Board Of Educa-
ton on Tuesday evening when the
question arose as to whether or not
Mrs. Mary D. Bradford should share
In the added compensation provided
for school workers. Most Of the mem
bers of the board were inclined to be-
lieve that Mrs. Bradford had been com
siderably- under-paid, but some mem
bers Of the board questioned the le-
gality of the city adding compensation
beyond her contract. The matter is
not finally disposed Of and it is to
be taken up at meeting of the COM
mittees later.
If the board can wink at the law
and pay out eighteen thousand dol
lars said one of the members of the
board this morning, it is difficult to
see why it could not wink again for six
hundred dollars or some amount in this
neighborhood. Certainly Mrs. Brad
ford is entitled to the same considera-
ton that any other teacher Of the
schools is entitled to.
The discussion Of the proposition
took up much of the time of the SEES
sion Of the board on Tuesday evening.
The session was an extended one last
ing till nearly midnight
The contract for the heating and
ventilating plant for the new Mckinley
school was awarded to the American
Heating Company at Superior, the con-
tract price being $28,128, the same as
was paid for the heating and ventilat-
ing plant in the Washington school,
1t was ordered that bids for the plumb
ing in the new school be received a
week from next Monday evening. The
committee recommended that the terra
"a floors be used for the Mckinley
school at cost Of $6,905.
Commissioner shaw Resigns.
Bert Shaw, who has served most ac-
ceptably as school commissioner from
the ninth ward, rendered his resigna
ton to the board, announcing that he
had removed his residence to the
second ward of the city. A successor
to Mr.. Shaw, who was serving as vice
president of the board, viii be elected
by the Common Council at it's next
meeting.
B. M. Jacobson, the new member
Of the board from the fourth ward,
took his seat at the meeting on Tues
day evening.
The Board voted an extra month
compensation for the janitors of the
school as pay for work which will
done during the summer months in re-
pairs that are to be made on the vari-
Gus buildings. It is just possible that
this also will be held illegal under
the opinion of the Attorney General.
It has not as yet been paid, but the
members of the Board were unanimous
in their belief that the .anitors were
entitled to it.
The Board decided that the men or
women who take the school census shall
be paid at the rate Of three cents a
name and this will mean that the cost
Of the census will be in the neigh
borhood of $4,000.
Buy New School site.
The Board voted to buy the Wit
scheafer property on Fairfield avenue
as site for a school which is to ul-
timately take the place of the Grant
school. The price paid was $500 and
the property contains five acres. It is
admirably located as a school site and
real estate men agree that the price
paid is a reasonable one.