The Republican., 1919-04-03
IMPORTANT CONFERENCE
School Heads and County Commits
sioners in Joint Meeting.

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sioners in Joint Meeting.
At the conference held on March
20th between the County Board of
Education and the Board of County
Commissioners of which a brief ac-
count was published in these columns
last Thursday. the Board of Educa-
ton laid the following before the
County Commissioners, the same
bearing upon the present conditions
of the schools of the county as well
as upon their immediate future
needs:
l. That new, remodeled or more
complete and modern school buildings
or plants had been requested for the
schools at the following places, in
several of which places rented build
ings are now being used: Kitzmil-
Ter grammar and high); Dodson and
Shellmar (combined); Vindex, Deer
Park, Bloomington, Yoder, Grants
vile, Accident, Promised Land, Loeb
Lynn Heights, Swanton, Miller, Flat
woods, Steyer, Jennings. it was not
claimed that there are included in the
above list all the new or remodeleG
or modernized school buildings need
ed in the county, as represented, but
the list does include those for which
requests have been made recently.
1t is constantly further urged that
well-prepared teachers can not read
lily be secured for any school which is
housed in a rundown, dilapidated, an
tiquated building For the Board Of
Education to comply in meeting such
demand for school buildings it was
estimated that not less than $4,000
would be required from the county.
2. The Board of Education further
stated that it estimated that not less
than $4,000 would be required from
the county to meet the widespread
needs of present school buildings to
repair and modernize them along the
lines of present-day standards and re-
quirements the one and two-room
school buildings being more in line
for such attention.
3. In conjunction with the needs
as discussed and as set forth under
the two preceding paragraphs, the
Board of Education formally and Of
ficially presented to the Board of
County Commissioners its detailed
budget of school expenses for the
school year 1919-1920, in which was
not included, as result of the con-
ference, any of the permanent i'm
provements set forth above. for it
was pointed out that there are about
twenty-five school buildings in the
county this year not open, owing to
the inability to secure teachers for
such schools; the need of teachers is
greater at present, as a countrywide
condition, than the need for new
buildings. The budget in this abridg-
ed form requested $99,610 from the
county. This amount of $99,610,
when added to the total of $4,000,
under paragraph one, and increased
still further by the total of $25 900,
under paragraph two, made the grand
total of S204,610 as needed to meet
the demands for permanent improve
mems and school maintenance This
amount of S204,610 represents an in
crease of about $29,846.76 over the
total of the whole levy as made by
the Board of County Commissioners
in April, 1918.
In April, 1918, $4,000 was levied
by the Board of County Com
missioners for tie same general nur-
poses for which the County Board of
Education then asked 100000; in the
budget now submitted to the Board
of County Commissioners the Board
cf Education requests $996lO from
the county to be available from Au-
gust /, 1919, for the same general
purposes for which, in April. 1918,
was levied $50 900. The present re-
quest. therefore, calls for an increase
of S40.610 over the amount Levied in
April 1918, and for the same general
PURPOSES.
The Republican plans to set fortN
in its next issue the reasons that led
to the increase Of S40f10 as the
amount requested Immediately from
the county by the Board Of Educa-
ton.