Evening star., 1946-04-03
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0fAth|eticFunds
Urged byGroup
Arlington Federation
Calls Plan Sound
Accounting Practice

Accounting Practice
A Recommendation that the Ar.
lington School Department handle
athletic activity funds so as to meet
State requirements and to follow g
sound accounting practice, was votec
last night by the Arlington Civic
Federation.
A resolution approved declared
questions recently have arisen with
respect to the athletic funds and
may recur on other miscellaneous
funds collected by school board
employees.
Although the matter was not Spe-
cifically mentioned in the resolution
or the ensuing discussion, legal
action instituted by Frank L. Ball
jr., and County Treasurer John
Locke Green now is pending in the
Circuit Court to compel School Supt
Fletcher Kemp, Chairman John M
Stewart and other public school
officials to deposit school athletic
association funds with the treas
urers Office to be handled as public
money.
Voucher System Favored.
The motion, presented by George
Hieronymus, School Committee
chairman recommended that al
other monies in which the public
has proprietary interest and which
are collected by the school board OF
its employees should be handled by
vouchers for each transaction"
Individuals who handle $500 OF
more annually should be properly
bonded, the resolution continued
and where fund raising activities
are largely due to students efforts
the amounts collected should be
handled by a representative of the
parents, or the parent teacher as
sociation, in conjunction with an
agent of the school administration
In no case" it was said, should
any public funds be handled by a
single individual when that indi-
vidual is not properly bonded as the
State statute prescribes."
School Building Approved.
Another resolution of the School
Committee, also adopted, COM
mended the School Department for
its announced comprehensive build
ing expansion plans and recon-
mended quick action on the proposed
construction. Also recommending
that plans be perfected as soon as
possible for county kindergarten
program, the Federation indorsed
the proposed tax levy increase of
S cents and recommended its in
crease in the amount necessary to
the best plan of financing, not to
exceed 10 cents.
The federation also voted to ap-
point special committee to pre-
pare and arrange for the circula-
ton of petition to Circuit Judge
Walter T. Mccarthy requesting a
referendum on the question of
electing County Board members
every four years.
The organization. which original
ly favored the establishment of the
present system, recently reversed
itself to support the simultaneous
election of all five members of the
county governing body.
State Sales Tax Forecast.
State Senator William D. Medley,
guest speaker, told federation mem
bers it Is being freely predicted in
Richmond that a sales tax will be
voted in the 1948 session of the
General Assembly.
Virginia is losing its wartime in
come and additional revenue, will
be needed, Senator Medley said.
The present budget, he added, is
$3.50 ,000,0 900, compared with $249,-
000,00 two years ago.
Senator Medley also discussed the
legislation of local interest which
was enacted by the session of the
legislature just closed.
DR.. Victor Meyers was named
chairman of the War Memorial
Committee of the federation by
William G. Watt, president. The
creation of the committee was voted
on the motion of Mrs. Beulah S
Goss.
Jail Held Outmoded.
Describing the Arlington Jail as
"clean and sanitary but old and out
model the federation adopted a
resolution offered by the Public
Health and Sanitation Committee
recommending the establishment OF
a Northern Virginia regional Jail.
Notice of the action will be sent
to Maj. Rice M. Youell, State com
missioner of corrections.
Two motions of the Good Gov
eminent Committee also were adopt
ed. One recommended that Claude
O. Thomas, Electoral Board secre-
tary, be requested to have the poll
books purged before the general
election this year.
The other recommended that tn,
federation initiate petitions and cir.
culate them in move to effec
changes in Arlington's politica
precinct boundaries. The State code
it was said, provides that such peti
tions require only the signature O.
20 qualified voters owning real estat,
within the election district con.
cerned.