Show HE EXONERATEO Mrs Miners Charges Against Dr Millspaugh Entirely Fail THE DOCTOR REELECTED TO SUPERINTENDENCY OF SCHOOLS mANIMOUSLY Miss Heltons Terms Acceded to By the Board of Education More School Buildings For the WestSide West-Side The Treasurer Has a Balance of 33602934 On Hand At last evenings meeting of the board of education the MilnerMills paugh incident came to an end without with-out any discussion whatever The findings and recommendation of the committee of the whole bore the signature sig-nature of Mr Newman the chairman and were as follows Your committee of he whole to whom was referred the communication Milner charging Dr of Mrs Maud E 1Iiner J F Millspaugh superintendent of schools with negligence of duty and abuse of official authority to such an extent that her standing as a teacher has been seriously affected begs to report that it has carefully investi gated all the charges preferred and unanimously recommends the adoption of the following resolution Resolved That Dr J F Millspaugh superintendent of schools be exonerated exoner-ated from all charges presented against him by Mrs Maud E liner and further fur-ther we find that in all his actions in the matter under investigation he was governed by the directions of the committee com-mittee on teachers and school work and the board of education The report of the committee of the whole was adopted by unanimous vote UNANIMOUSLY REFLECTED The next in order as unfinished business busi-ness from last week was the election of a superintendent Mr Nelden proposed pro-posed Superintendent Millspaughs name at the salary now paid him On Mr Wilsons request the salary part of the motion was eliminated to be voted upon later Only one ballot was taken I resulted in 6 votes for Superintendent Superintend-ent Millspaugh and one blank FIXING THE SALARY Mr Moyle moved to make the superintendents super-intendents salary 2400 per year a cut of 100 from the figure now paid In support of his motion Mr Moyle asserted as-serted that it was only consistent to make cuts all along the line Mr Nelden denied that reductions in salaries had been made all along the line He deemed it Injudicious to re I duce Superintendent Millspaughs salary sal-ary any further and offered an amendment amend-ment for 2500 Attention was called to the fact by Mr Colton that not long since the superintendents su-perintendents yearly salary was cut from 3000 to 2500 An efficient superintendent su-perintendent who could properly supervise su-pervise 250 teachers and manage the schools at which over 11000 pupils receive re-ceive instruction he believed to be worth more than 2500 a year to the taxpayers Mr Moyle replied that the cuts made in the salaries of others were not because be-cause of any inefficiency but for the reason that the demands of economy must be given due consideration In his opinion to not reduce Superintendent Superintend-ent Millspaughs compensation when the salaries of others had been cut would be cause for just criticism However he expressed the belief that all of the teachers were not receiving enough salary and none of them too much The amendment making the superintendents super-intendents salary 2500 yearly the same as now prevailed Wilson Colton Col-ton Brigham Baldwin and Nelden voted for the amendment while Glauque and Moyle voted in the negative nega-tive THE PRIMARY SUPERVISORS ULTIMATUM UL-TIMATUM M Adelaide Holton notified the board of her acceptance of the position of supervisor of primary grades at a monthly salary of 135 provided that she be paid for nine months The communication was ordered referred re-ferred to the committee on teachers and school work but a little later in the session the action was reconsidered and by a vote of 4 to 3 the minority being Nelden Baldwin and Wilson the proposition of Miss Holton was rejected re-jected and ten days were allowed for her to accept the boards offer which was on a basis of eight months salary Later still and just prior to adjournment adjourn-ment Mr Brigham succeeded in securing se-curing another reconsideration In reply to a question President Baldwin stated that he believed Miss Holton would not return from the east if her terms were not acceded to Mr Moyle took the stand that Qther teachers could a satisfactorily or better bet-ter perform the supervisory duties of primary grades than Miss Holton atj J less salary He declared that Miss I Holton was not the possessor of a degree de-gree from a firstclass college and t I much sides she was already being paid too I Mr Nelden exhibited the published list of teachers in the Utah university and the salaries paid to them He believed I be-lieved none of them were receiving excessively ex-cessively large salaries although seven I or eight of them were not owners of college degrees Mr Nelden was will I I ing that Miss Heltons abilities and worth should be judged by her works I A motion to accept Miss Heltons ul I timatum was carried by the tmatum carIed following vote Ayes Wilson Colton Baldwin Nelden and Brigham NoesGiauque I I and Moyle I MORE BUILDINGS FOR THE WESTSIDE j WEST-SIDE I I The committee on buildings and I i I grounds recommended the adoption of the following resolution II Resolved That the committee be authorized au-thorized to negotiate for a school site i for the district lying south of the I Franklin school and recommend the same to the board I SecondThat the committee be authorized au-thorized to advertise for bids on the I plans and specifications prepared by the superintendent of buildings for the I erection of an eightclassroom school building on the site to be selected four I rooms of said building to be furnished I ready for opf iinnnov for the next school nn year Third That the committee advertise for bids for the erection of 3 two room school building to be located over the Jordan river in the northwestern northwest-ern part of the city The resolution was adopted FINANCIAL AFFAIRS Treasurer Barnett submitted the following fol-lowing financial report Balance on hand May 1 40914 41 I Miscellaneous receipts 25 50 Total 40939 91 91 Clerks warrants paid 4910 57 Balance on hand May 3136029 34 By way of summary the treasurer reported as follows Balance on land June 30 1897 12305 45 Receipts for eleven months 362613 3Q Total 374918 75 Disbursements eleven months 338889 41 Balance on hand May 31189S 36029 34 On recommendation of the finance committee appropriations aggregating 94154 were made The action of the committee on finance in auditing and authorizing the payment of the teachers payroll for the last month and a half of the z = school year ending June 3 was approved ap-proved The payroll amounted to 24 64049 APPLICATIONS TO TEACH Applications for teachers positions fromthe following were referred to the committee on teachers and school work Frank Evans George Y Robbins Hettie Seeley George A Hedger Margaret garet C Hull Martha Savage Dora M Mybroie Bertha Pease Mamie A Keeler May Hartwell Juliette Littley Zetta Rand Eloise Freeman Rancke Lcnore Samson Loviha Van Cott Carrie Car-rie Erickson Martha P Alexander Emma Hamlin Ella V Hutchison John Holt Albert M Merrill Emma C Perkes Hattie M Smith Charlotte Rowberry Ray Riggs Martha Watters Ernest J Taylor all of Salt Lake City I Eva Ranier Benjamin Utah Henry Peterson Coalville Utah W I Brown Nephi Utah Lena Sayers Ella Cock rum Park City Utah Maggie Outcalt H B Arnold Ogden Utah Kathleen Duffield Broken Bow Neb Hattie A Boulden Risen Ak Carroll S Alden New Haven Conn J A Koontz Mountain Home Ida A Belcher Lcadville Colo William A Riley Greencastle Ind H W Randolph Emporia Kan Mary Tremain Lincoln Lin-coln Neb George W Mannix jr Greenville 0 Frances E Duncombe Ithaca N Y Lenora E Henry Topeka To-peka Kan E A Eisenlohr Columbus 0 Mary R Fitz Gibbon Sioux City Ia Katherine S Handke Menominee Mich Thomas K Lewis Columbus 0 Harriet Rossiter Biuabik Minn Ida II Clark Racine Wis C A Gog gin Fort Scott Kan Lucy Mage t A = z 3 t I i th t t t k I V II I H SUPERINTENDENT m HILLSPATJGH Geneseo Ill Mrs Nellie Stone Boise Ida B S Potter Bloomington Ills Lucie E Shumate Deadwood S D Nellie l Roe Burlington Ia O E Wagner Ann Arbor Mich PREVIOUS TO ADJOURNING The resignation of Minnie A Bartch from the corps of teachers was filed Mr Nelden arose to request the reporters re-porters to correct an erroneous statement state-ment in the newspapers giving the sa ary of Miss Uller and Professor De Leery the teachers of German and French respectively at 20 a month each The fact is that the salary of each language teacher is 20 monthly for each class period The board adjourned till next Thursday I Thurs-day evening when bids for 4000 geography text books will be opened and considered I II I |