The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-01
ASKS COUNCIL
FOR S757,978
Declares Increase Over
1925 Needed for School
Expansion Program.
OPERATE FOR S7O4,646
School Board Expects Deficit
of $4,000 at End of Year,
the Budget Shows.

The city council is asked to raise
total of $757,978 in city school taxes
for the operation and maintenance of
the public schools system of the city
in the budget for the twelve months
ending December 81, 1925, just
dopted by the school board and sub
mittcd to the city council for consid-
Grafton at its next meeting. The total
asked for represents an increase of
$176,325 over the budget for the year
1926 and includes in it several items
which will further the expansion
the coming year.
The budget shows that operating
expenses for the calendar year 1926
will total $784,27O, and this item is
divided into the following specific
expenses: general control, $33,496;
instruction, Dol; operat o n,
$111,100; maintenance, $4,000, and
undistributed, $13,683. These items
include operating and maintenance of
the office building, salaries for en-
ployes not on instruction stats;
salaries for principals, supervisors,
teachers; text books, supplies, jani-
tors, fuel, water, gas, and electric
service; maintenance of buildings and
grounds, insurance, school equipment,
school libraries, promotion of health,
transportation of pupils, and miscel-
laneous items. The figure Of $784,270
for 1925 is compared with the operat-
ing expenses for the present year as
shown in the 1925 budget, $707,873
On the other side of the ledger the
eh t,fe
ing the coming year which will total
$10S,410. These are divided to in
clude $42,50O from county school
taxes; $42,750 state fund apportion-
ment; $7,560 from state aid for special
courses; $l1,z5O for tuition from
pupils residing outside of the city;
and $3.50 from interest on deposits
in addition to miscellaneous receipts
estimated at an even $1,000.
The budget also predicts that the
estimated deficit at the end Of the
present year will be $2s,786, but this
deficit is not an operating deficit, it
is pointed out, but it is the result
of payments for miscellaneous capital
items during 1925 for which no APP
preparation was made. These items
are grouped as follows: purchase of
the Bruins property, $35,000; new Balm
school portable complete, So 1000; water
mains, stubs, and sidewalks, $2,804;
and miscellaneous items, $7,4S2.
For Capital Expenditures.
The expansion projects which will
be taken up during the next year by
the new school board when it takes
office, are accounted for in the 1925
budget in the following manner: pay
ments on land contracts $500 with
addition interest of $1,016; for NOV
ing five new portables and building
four more, the cost is estimated at
$4,000; a new open air school which
will cost $4,000 when completed;
new water mains, stubs, and side
\ walks, $1,916; and miscellaneous
items estimated at $4,000.
The large increase in the budget
for the coming year is accounted for
through these additional capital ex-
penditures, and through other pro-
jects which the board has in mind
in purchase of land, and other con
struction work which is found to be
an ABSOLUTE necessity in the opera
tion of the schools. The completion
Of the new high school building ex-
pected early in 1925 also represents a
formidable item in the increase.