The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-06-25
MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF PUB
Lie INSTRUCTIONS
Ocala. Fla. June 9th. 1920.

Ocala, Fla, June 9th, 1920.
The Board of Public Instructions in
land for Marion county. Florida, met
this the 10th day of June. 1920 in regu-
lar session with W. L. Colbert, chair
man; c. r. Veal and A ]. Stephens
present.
The secretary read the minutes of
the last meeting and the same was ap-
Iprovcd.
Mr.. r. A. Burford, attorney for Mr..
w. A. Hammond and j. E. Paisley, ap-
peared before the board and protest
ed against the board declaring the
result of the election held on June
LIST, to create special tax school dis
trict at EbeneZer. Mr.. Burford claim
ings that the advertisement for the
election having been changed in pro-
cess of advertising, made the adver-
itisement illegal.
The Board called on Hooker and
Martin for their opinion in the matter
and they stated that the advertise
ment was illegal and that would make
the election illegal and that the board
could not enforce the collection of
taxes. The board on the advice of it's
attorney declined to declare the re-
suit of the election and instructed the
secretary to notify the patrons that
they would have to commence anew
in order to create the school district.
Hosia Lewis, Supervisor of the Jeru-
salem cOlOred school, appeared before
the board and asked for an addition
Of one room to be built to their school
house. The patrons were asked to get
up the cost of material and present to
the board at the next meeting and
that the board would assist as much
as possible, provided the patrons
would do all the work or pay for same
Mr.. B. c. Webb appeared before the
board and asked for assistance in
building a new school house at Ken
drick
The Board agreed to appreciate
$500 for a new school building pro-
vided the district would provide
funds to complete the building, build
ing estimated to cost not less than
100000
The Superintendent was instructed
to advertise for bids to repair and put
In good condition, according to plans
and specifications now in the Super
intendent's office, the heating plants
at the Ocala High School and the
Ocala Primary School,
The Board agreed to furnish piping
and pump for the Mt. Olive school
provided the patrons will do all work
The Board agreed to furnish ceiling
for the Magnolia colored school pro-
vided patrons do the work
The Board also agreed to furnish
q IN 70 fn T
Chapel school provided patrons pay
for all work.
Mr.. ]. K. Christian an dtrustees of
Mcintosh school were authorized to
have school house repaired inside and
the house painted.
The Board appointed Edward
Speights supervisor of the Elmwood
school to fill the unexpired term of
c. H. Hamilton resigned.
There being only one bid for the
building of the Reddick new school
building, the advertisement for the
erection of the building was ordered
continued until June 25th. when the
board will meet to open bids.
The trustees of the Oak Hill school
were authorized to make arrange
ments to have their school transport
ed to the Fairfield school
The superintendent reported that
he had closed deal with We'll, Roth
& Co., to buy $4,000 worth of the
Ocala Special District per cent.
bonds due 1884, at 80 per cent and
recommend accepting this as it will
stop the interest on these bonds for
IA years.
The, chairman and secretary were
authorized to draw warrants On the
Interest and Sinking Fund of the
Ocala District for s24,750 to take up
these bonds and for $12O9.03 accumu-
lated interest on same. Said bonds
to be taken up and cancelled, num-
bers from one to twenty inclusive.
The Board agreed to meet on June
29th to prepare and adopt a budget
for the school year beginning July /,
1920.
The depository reports were chack-
ed over and found to be apparently
correct
A communication from W. K Ze-
wadski attorney for c. W. Cannon,
addressed communication to the
board claiming that the board owed
c. w. Cannon and Mrs. c. w. Cannon
for 4 months teaching and asked the
board to make some settlement of
same. The communication was laid
over until next regular meeting of
the board.
No further business the Board ad-
journed TO meet in regular session on
Tuesday, July 9Th, 1920.