Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-04-27
ITO THE PlOfLE OF
SHENANDOAH COUNTY

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public statement to the people
5 charging that the school levy fol-
: next year as made by the Board
tof Supervisors al the April meet.
; ing, is not sufficient to maintain
the schools properly for the ensu-
ing year, and the statement pro-
leeds also to tell the people what
will happen to our schools with
the levy just made.
i The Board Of Supervisors de-
sires 10 say that they have adj
Ivanced the school lew since Mr..
Shoemaker has been Snperinten-
dent up to 57H cents and that
they have on several occasions
| fixed the school levy as high as
the law then permitted, and on
1.-TWO occasions they made special
appropriations besides the law
limit levy to satisfy the request
of Mr.. Shoemaker and the School
Board. There have been other
years when the Board of Super
Wilson's did not allow Mr.. Shoe
maker for schools as much as ne
asked for and no public howl was
made of it by the School Board,
and the schools kept going all
right just the same. What mo-
tive is there for this public ate
tack in all the county papers on
the Board of Supervisors at this
time
This year the Supervisors had
presented to them a petition of
about 1000 names asking that no
increase in the county levy be
made and the Supervisors took
into consideration the petition of
these persons and proceeded to
make the levy for the county the
same as last year, counting that
which was levied for both MAIN
tenapce and bonds.
III fact the levy made this year
is in excess of that made last
year for school maintenance, as
last year several of the districts
made special levies to pay for in
terest and principal on school
bonds III their districts snd the
two levies averaged 571a cents for
all school purposes for the county |
This year there is an extra levy
III all the districts besides the
57H cents to pay for interest and
principal on these school bonds,
and if the schools could be opef-
ated heretofore, why not this
year on the 573 cents wholly for
school maintenance
The school budget as submitted
by Mr.. Shoemaker contains some
items which the Board of Super |
visors think should be eliminated |
and if this were done the school
could be properly maintained
wi hout the curtailmeDt of either
the term or salary of any teacher
aud a possible reduction in the |
levy might be made. (This bud
get will be published later i'll
necessity requires it with COM
ment added
If the School Board thinks that
the Board of Supervisors have
not made sufficient levy tol
properly maintain the schools for
the next year, the law gives them
the right and authority to ap-
peal to the people of the county
for an election to be ordered by
the Judge of the Circuit Court in
June of this year to determine
the matter.
Let the School Board appeal to
the people to decide the question
and If they want a greater levy
than that made by the Super
visors at the April meeting, then
the Board stands ready to man
to make the levy whatever the
people want it. This would
settle the matter without any
further controversy. The Super
visors try faithfully to represent
the wishes of majority of the
Ipeople and they are ready and
willing at all times to do it.
| The School Board graciously
turned over to the Supervisors
public school debt OF more than
$40, 900 90 this year for them to
tax the people to paw both inter-
est and principal, and there was
nothing else for the Board to do
but to proceed to make a levy
sufficiently large to pay the ma
, turing interest and bonds This
/ debt was contracted by the old
School Board and an additional
levy as already stated is made
this year by the districts and
! will be added to the one made to
Y m aintain the schools and we
t certainly think that this heavy