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Show Hebo School Board discusses many pertinent school problems Board of Education of Nebo school district met in regular regu-lar session April 16 with all members present. Claims, amounting to $83,-777.27 $83,-777.27 were approved for payment. pay-ment. ' A statement of funds report dated March 31 showed a bank balance of $588,633.62, with outstanding warrants in the amount of $79,607.32, leav ing a balance of funds available avail-able in the General Fund in the amount of $509,026.30. A budget report covering the period of July 1, 1961 to March 31, 1962 showed $4,-410,055 $4,-410,055 budgeted, $2,972,151.43 expendea and $1,437,093.57 or 33 unexpended. Building construction report showed total contracts of $1,- 894,679.12 on the new Spanish Fork high school with payments pay-ments to date amounting to $1,516,553.98, leaving an unpaid un-paid balance of $378,125.14. No objections were presented to the board regarding the building bonds and refunding bonds which notice was previously pre-viously published and a resolution resolu-tion was adopted to pay the bonds. The Superintendent and Clerk discussed with the Board estimated funds for the 1962-63 1962-63 school year. . Total estimated esti-mated receipts for the 1962-63 fiscal year were $4,140,338 as compared with $4,410,055 for the 1961-62 year, which represented repre-sented a decrease of $269,-717.00 $269,-717.00 in estimated receipts and balances. The discussion was then continued to include proposed expenditures for the 1962-63 school year. Superintendent Stansfield recommended re-commended that the Board consider a policy of extended sick leave for all full time employees, em-ployees, as other districts have done. He also asked the Board to consider the possibility of assuming a greater share of the cost of the present group insurance plan in the District. The reaction of the Board was favorable, providing funds could be budgeted to cover additional ad-ditional costs. Superintendent Stan sfield : presented to the Board the field plans for the new Spanish Fork High School, which were approved by the Board. The Board of Education scheduled three special meetings meet-ings one to be held in each area, to be held as follows: Springvile area at ,8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 25th. Spanish Fork area at 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 26th. Payson area at 8:00 p.m. on Friday, April 27th. A tabulation of the bleacher bids for the new Spanish Fork High School was presented to the Board, including recommendations recom-mendations of the Board members mem-bers who had visited exhibits and installations. A motion was made by Dr. Wiliam H. Sorensen, seconded by S. Rol-anld Rol-anld Lindsay, that the Board accept the bid of Hull Equipment Equip-ment Company to furnish, deliver de-liver and install the bleachers, as specified. Motion unanimous. Because of inadequate advertising, ad-vertising, a motion was made by S. Roland Lindsay, seconded sec-onded by Dr. William H. Sorensen, So-rensen, that the Board reject all bids submitted to furnish commercial fertilizer and authorize au-thorize the Clerk to call for bids a second time. Such notice no-tice for the call was to be advertised ad-vertised in the local newspapers news-papers and also to include a call for bids on paint to be used by the maintenance department de-partment of the District. Motion Mo-tion unanimous. Superintendent S t a n s field presented and recommended an Advanced Placement Program Pro-gram for high schoool students ih Nebo School District who can take advanced work in English. After discussing the program in detail, the Board authorized the Superintendent to plan for the program for ' the 1962-63 school year. The Superintendent reported , that he had met with the officers of-ficers of the custodians' organization organ-ization and that they had requested re-quested the Board to consider either a longer vacation period or a program of extended sick leave and additional insurance benefits. The Board felt that the custodian group should be considered along with other groups in the District. Superintendent S t a n s field reported that the same summer sum-mer program as last year would be offered again by the Central Utah Vocational School. He reported that 64 students from Spanish Fork area, 23 students from Springville Spring-ville area, and 20 students from Payson area had participated partici-pated last summer. |
