Show BOARD EDUCATION Emergency Created by Lack of School Funds NO PLAN YET DECIDED ON TO I MET IT Little Probability That the School Year Will Be Cut Short How over Water at Uintah School Treasurer Barnetts Report I I I was expected that the board of education would take some steps at its meeting last night to meet the emergency emer-gency occasioned by the Merrill school tax decision which deprived the city of about 0010 of school funds The bpard will either have to use money from the sinking fund borrow or else closedown close-down the schools earlier than usual I is of course not at all likely that the school year will be cut short but that some means wjll be devised to carry on the school during the entire school year The matter has been discussed dis-cussed at committee meetings but a settlement had evidently not been reached else it would have come up last night On recommendation of the committee on teachers and school work a resolution resolu-tion was adopted ordering a notice published calling for bids and terms from publishers to furnish text books for the coming year NO TEACHERS Mizs Blanche Chadwick teacher In i the Lowell school was granted a leave of absence for six weeks Miss Grace Hadley teacher in the Washingto d school was granted a leave or absence for one month The resignation of Miss Clara Shaw teacher in the Washington schoolwas handed In and accepted by I < UUU u uTUITION TUITION RECEIVED The committee on finance reported having received the sum of 21550 tuition tui-tion on nonresident pupils and the same ordered turned into the treasury The sum of 30 received by the finance committee from the Salvation army for rent of the Thirteenth school building for February was also ordered turned Into the treasury UINTAH SCHOOL Harry Chapman janitor of the Uin tah school called attention to the condition con-dition existing in that building He sa sin s-in a letter Gentlemen You have GentemenYou probably heard of the bad condition of the furnace fur-nace room at the Ulntah school caused < by the surface water of the surrounding surround-ing country soaking through the walls and floor In some places the water gushes hi a if from a spring and you may get some Idea of the amount which must I be pumped out daily when I say tat over 1800 gallons runs in every 21 hours In consideration of this fact and Ii that the pumping and my other duties keep me almost constantly at won from twelve to fourteen hours dally Saturdays and Sundays of course included i in-cluded and that it more than doubles the amount of work which would ordinarily or-dinarily be expected of me I think It is but justice that you should increase my salary Furthermore the damp condition of the said boiler room where I am confined con-fined most of the day is not conducive to good health Therefore I respectfully respect-fully and most earnestly ask that my salary be raised to 50 per month be ginning with the first day of February lE97 lE97The The matter was referred to the committee com-mittee on building and grounds FOR POSITIONS TO TEACH Applications for positions to teach were received from the following Gertrude Troy of Minneapolis Helen Merwin and Maud C Rowles of Alliance Al-liance 0 Gertrude 1 Hodges of Baker Ba-ker City Ore Mattie L Shoup Sioux City Ia Katharine Hawthorne Cincinnati Cin-cinnati 0 Frances O McNorton PIttsburg E A Gamut Winnipeg WInnlfred E Jones Racine Wlnnlred ones WIs Es tella Mulholland Council Bluffs laW la-W I Brown Nephi Miss M E Allen Al-len San Jose I J Penrose Randolph N Y P B Peters Storm Lake Ia Harold Lewis Salt Lake Referred to the committee on teachers teach-ers and school work Health Commissioner Dalby sent in notices directing the board to have the Twelfth ward school and the Seventh ward school connected with the sewer system TREASURERS REPORT Treasurer Barnetts financial report for the month of February was received re-ceived and was a follows On hand Feb 1 6394410 Feb 25 city tax received 1500000 Total receipts J7S04410 Paid warrants 2992001 warnt Balance on hand 57024J O > The amount of disbursements for eight months past was given at 179 21905 21905he The committee on finance reported having audited Treasurer Barnetts report re-port for the month of January and the same had been found correct APPROPRIATIONS The appropriation list amounting to 2042668 was then passed after which the board adjourned for four weeks |