The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-07-14
MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF PUB
Lie INSTRUCTION, July, 1922.

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The Board of Public instruction
met in the office of the county super
intendent with Chas. Cantwell, chair
man; T. S. knight, member, and w
E. Bell, superintendent, present.
The minutes OF the last mcetin.
were read and approved. 1t wa
moved, seconded and carried, tina
the members of the board and coun
ty superintendent, be reimbursed fol
the amount of premium paid to sure
ty company for their bonds.
The budget for the year, beginning
July LIST, which is now recorded in
the office of the Board of Public In
struction, was adopted
In order to maintain schools il was
found necessary to ask for levy of
ten mills for the general school fund,
three mills for all special tax school
districts and five mills for all bonded
districts. Requests for this levy,
were passed by the board, signed by
! the chairman and county superinten-
! dent and ordered filed with the coun-
ity commissioners in sthe records of
! the clerks Office
The trustees of Special Tax Dis
trict No. 2, Punta Gorda, appeared
before the board and asked the board
to adopt a resolution, permitting
them to borrow money to pay indebt-
Iedness, and to make requisition on
the county commissioners to levy an
extra three mills. In response to
the trustees request the following
resolution was adopted:
Whereas, the Special Tax District
No. 2, Punta Gorda, has an indebted
ness of forty-two hundred dollars,
consisting of notes held by the Punta
.Gorda State Bank. and whereas, the
three mills levied for current expen-
ses is not sufficient to pay this in
Idebtedness and run schools, and
whereas, the legislature of the State
of Florida, A. D. 1921, did pass a
Especial bill No $50, chapter 1864, to
provide for the Indebtedness of Spec
ial Tax Districts in Thea counties of
lDeSoto. Hardee Highlands, Charlotte
and Glades, therefore; be it resolved.
that the Board of Public Instruction.
permit the trustees of Special Tax
District No. 2, to borrow forty-two
hundred dollars on notes at a rate OF
leigh, percent per alnum, due and
payable at the e, piration of ninety
days and renewable until paid in
full and also that this board permit
tn" trustees of district No. 2, to make
Irequisition on the cOrntv commission
ers for an extra three mills levy.
The itimized estimates of district
trustees which are recorded in the
office of the Board Of Public Instruc-
ton, were accepted and ordered filed.
Upon resolution, two hundred. fifty
dollars of the funds of Special Tax
District No. Twenty-one. was ordered
transferred to the Special Tax Dis
trict fund of District No. Two.
Two notes, one for one hundred,
seventy-siX dollars and fifty-four
cents and another for seventy dollars
and twenty cents. held by the DeSoto |
County Board of Public instruction |
for money due in division settlement, !
being due July, LIST, 1922, were or
dered paid, with interest at eight per
cent.
The following teachers were ap-
pointed: Mrs. Rosa Pierce Shelley.
primary. Charlotte Harbor Mrs. T.
5. Knight, first assistant. Charlotte
Harbor. Mrs. Isabel Akin, Gasparil-
Ia. Mrs. Z. f. Morgan, Sparkman.
Miss Eleanor Thigpen, Murdoch.
The county term was fixed at sew
an months, the eigth month to be
paid from district funds.
1t was moved, seconded and CARR
ID, that third grade teachers would
De paid sixty dollars from the gener-
II fund, second grade, seventy dol
ars and first grade, eighty dollars
md the trustees be allowed to sup
element in the same ratio.
1t was ordered that a warrant be
lrawn in favor of the Punta Gorda
State Bank for two thousand. two
hundred, ninety-nine dollars and six !
y-four centns as partial payment on 5
tote held by that bank, for money
borrowed in division settlement.
Warrant was also ordered drawn for '
orty-eight dollars and seventy-nine
,ents as interest on said note until
July 5th, 1922. '
There being no further business.
he board adjourned until July, Is.
Chas. Cantwell, Chairman. J
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