New Britain herald., 1923-02-10
School Board Cool 7oward Mayors Offer b Help in Making SurDey

obtain from the city without ineFeas. ing The tax rate,
 'I am as deeply interested in the welfare Of our schools as any citizen. ] am calling your attention to this condition of affair, because l believe Il my duty as mayer 10 have you fully apnTlsed or what IS laelng us fl the above building program is carried out,
 hi think a survey should be made Of all the present school buildings 10 see II they are being used 10 the ul. most to accommodate the school children, am considering the ad- visibility of appointing a committee 10 make such a survey and ask if l may receive your cooperation. if such a committee is appointed by me, III do het feel at the present time as If could approve of the issue of the s6s5,000 bonds that the city meeting authorized until such a survey as | have indicated has been made.
 T feel sure that l will receive the greatest cooperation possible from your board to the end that all depaft- ments Of the city government may have fair allowances for rnelr work and that the taxes or the city may be confined 10 a reasonable rate.
 "Yours very truly
 "A. NJ. rAoNEssA.
 Mayor.
 When Secretary E. N. Pratt read the letter, Committeeman F. Q. kil- l bourne moved that il be placed on the | table, prefacing his motion with the | following remarks:
 Without any dlseourtesy 10 the mayor, feel we should lay this mat ter on the table. l don't see what the mayor has 10 do with this board. We are elected by the people and if they don't like what we do they know what to do. We owe no allegiance to the mayor. think 1t would be a good idea to have the charter amend ed to make the mayor member. ex- officlo. Of this committee.
 'rhe school accommodation com mittee has spent days, weeks and months finding out the needs of the school system. The mayor doesn't know what the needs are. Why should he try 10 dictate?"
 Chairman B. r. Gaffney thought il would be better course 10 pursue to turn the communication over to the accommodations committee and it was so voted. Receipt of the will be acknowledged,
 Mrs. Mangan Champions Teachers
 A petition was received from school teachers who have taken normal school girls into their class rooms for training. asking that they be allowed 10 collect the $50 offered by the state for this service. The matter was laid over to the next meeting. Those signing the petition were: Misses Marian White, Dorothy Mayer, Ruth { arson Catherine o'Brien and Isabel i Carey.
 Mrs. Laura Mangan championed he school teachers recommending a hat they be allowed to collect the s bonus since they had done extra work | md the state stood ready to pay for T t. In reply to Judge Gaffneys argu- nent that in that event they Wiuld ,e serving two masters, Mrs. Mangan pointed out that under the present ar , .angement they are already serving l wo masters and allowing them to col ' ect what she felt was due them !. would not make the situation worse. , Mrs. Kimball favored paying the ' cachers. Al Mir. Pratt member of the con- 1ittee that recommended asking the :, eachers to take girls in training, be- = eyed they should not be allowed to . ollect z Commissioner P. F. King submitted hat the teachers had performed the q ervices required of them in their 2 eguar line of teaching duties and in ddition had at the request of the fl ,hoo committee, assumed additional o uties. Now that the state is willing ) pay for those extra services, he n ailed to see any reason why they q hould not collect. He qualified this F .atement later by saying that, if the H ,haol board had found in the past 4 lat the practice of allowing teachers \ earn money outside of their regu- [ IT line of school duties had proved 0 then it might be strong tl rgument against allowing them to g ollect. +