The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-03-29

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 Polling Places: Juneau City Hall; P.AA. Building Aux Bay; Territor- ial School Tee Harbor.
 Eligible Voters: U. s. Citizens 2l or over, resident one year in Terri tory and thirty days in proposed district.
 Propositions: 1. To establish an Independent School District to in clude all of the area centerlng about Juneau on east side of Gas tineau Channel
 2. To elect five School Direct ors for the District if established.
 Decision: Majority vote of the entire area for the district.
 For Directors, the five persons receiving the most votes. Voting IS for five members.
 Tomorrow the voters of Juneau, Thane, Aux Bay and Tee Harbor will go to the polls to determine whether the proposal to establish an Independent School District to serve the entire area shall be adopted.
 The proposition to be placed be- fore the voters is one proposed by the present Juneau Public School Board and its Superinten- dent. It has been endorsed by the Juneau City Council anS. the Parent-Teachers Association.
 The Juneau Public Schools cur rently provide public school fac ilities for all the people residing on the east side of the Gastineau Channel except for a one-teacher school operated by the Territory at Tee Harbor.
 Under the proposed Independent School District, the service to this area will remain the same. The present schools will continue to op- crate and the present transporta- tion system will be continued The Tee Harbor school would be taken over by the Independent A5chool District This change in organiza- tion would not affect the Winfield Home in any way as it is not a Public School.
 Financial Proposal
 The reason for the proposal to change from the present Juneau Public School system to that of an Independent School District is primarily one of finance. While serving the entire east side of the Gastineau Channel the present school districts boundaries are only those of the City of Juneau. As a result the financial burden of maintaining the public schools, except for tuition paid by the Ter ritory which does not equal the cost of education, rests entirely upon the people within the City Limits despite the fact that the children of the entire area are being given an education.
 The people who reside within the city and the Juneau Municipal government cannot be expected to long continue the support of the present situation. Particularly is this true when a need already ex- ists for additional school facilities and this need has arisen largely from the growth of the areas sur rounding the city.
 One basic question which will be decided at the polls tomorrow is whether the Juneau area shall re- main a single united school com munity or will eventually divide itself into several small districts. In the event of failure of the pro- posal the Juneau Public School Board might be forced within the next few years to exercise it's legal right to exclude all children re- siding outside of the Juneau City limits.
 Five Man Board
 The Independent School District would be under the control of five man Board of Directors elected by the people of the entire area. Six persons have filed for election to this Board and their names will appear on the ballots at to- morrow's election. They are Rob- ert M. Akervick, Douglas P. Bab- cock, Mrs. Daniel D. Vivie, Mrs. Ruth Popejoy, Dr. Joseph o. Rude and Woodrow M. Triplette.
 If the Independent School Dis trict proposition is favored by majority of the voters then the five candidates receiving the larg- est number of votes will become the Board of Directors for the Inde- pendent School District.
 Duties Of Directors
 The Board of Directors will have the power to establish the policies of the schools, determine it's bud get, choose the location of any future schools, employ personnel to operate the schools and gen. erally maintain the educational system in the same manner as it is done by the present Juneau