Show THE BOARD OF EDUCATION the board of education met in regular session sealon april president scott in the chair the members present were newman nelson armstrong colbath and duke THE presidential RECEPTION AI the following communication was read to the board of education salt lake city gentlemen at a meeting of thom cittee on invitation to the president held april the secretary was waa directed to communicate with your honorable board to request that you take steps as are deemed necessary with the view that the children from the various district or ward schools participate in the reception given the president on the ath of may very respectfully M IC PARSONS secretary TO FURNISH FLAGS superintendent millspaugh stated that he hail had been bet n requested requests d by the patriotic order of the suns sons of america that they be allowed to furnish the school children with flags on the occasion of the visit of president harrison aud and party to this city referred to the superintendent with power to act FIRST DISTRICT proposition joseph warburton on behalf of the the eu organization of the first ward offered to sell to the board a lot on the west end of lota block 12 plat I 1 t B rods for of which was to be paid in cash referred to the committee on sites ANOTHER TEACHER superintendent millspaugh recommended the employment of miss mcginnis as a teacher in the twentieth district school at a salary of 66 65 per month committee on teachers tea chera FINANCIAL REPORT the treasurer of f the board filed a statement th e finances of the board as follows amount in trea tre nory abury april 1st ast 35 credit eleventh district 8 80 TOW total 25 paid clerks warrants 82 balance a 88 committee on finances WARRANTS TO BE ISSUED As the amount of money to in the trea treasury aury was not sufficient to pay all the teachers for the present month the clerk was instruct eu to issue warrants committee on finance MAY HOLIDAY on recommendation of superintend aut nt Mille millspaugh paugh it was decided to celebrate may lat as a holiday in order to allow the children to enjoy themselves thema elvee ON CROWDED SCHOOLS the committee on school work ta to whom was referred the matter of the crowded schools reported that the third grade of the twentieth school hail had been transferred to a vacant room in the lutheran church approved NOT ALLOWED in regard to a claim of Newburn Mr for additional compensation for some additional work which he had performed in the tenth school the committee on teachers recommended that it lw be not allowed adopted mr nelson prepared and read them following memorandum the recent decision of the territorial supreme court in the matter of the school taxes for last year in this thin city re leaves the contestants in suits suite of resistance to that taxation from the obligation of paying the sameon the ground that the proper years assessment roll was not taken soper ken in the reckoning of the tax levy it follows therefore that those who have paid their special school taxes for that hat year have yielded to an improper levy and should have relief it is likely that they would find it impracticable to recover by lawsuit and much difficulty certainly surrounds the whole subject but nevertheless elemin in order that the burdens of the maintenance of the schools may be equally distributed among the taxpayers a way out of the dilemma and for the refunding of the mone money should be lound that is the purpose of ibis memorandum oran dum let the money received on the school tax levy of last year be treated as a loan a debt to be repaid to those who have ad danced it this will be legal on the concession that the board receives ece ives from tho the people of the several districts school sites and school houses to many times the value of this money so advanced in fact a large percentage of the money received from that taxation was meant for the purpose of paying for sites and building school houses and has been so applied this construction will bring the money so advanced and to be treated as an indebtedness debt edness within the statutory specification of purposes for which bonds may be voted and issued let the amount of bonds pro proposed ed to be issued be increased from COJO to and the so addad added to be sold and the proceeds used in refunding to collector hardy the money he has turned over to the treasurer of this board on said special school taxes to be by said collector hardy repaid to lose those who advanced it on last years school tax this amount named being the almost exact sum of the total of said taxes in this city it could all be thus repaid by the sale of the bonds proposed in the faith of this repayment let those who have objected to the payment of the tax now come forward and pay it but in case they do not there would be DO so much the less to repay to the collector and the residue could be available for public uses the late election for bonds having been declared invalid by the supreme court no special inconvenience as regards the new election would result in the adoption of the above while it would be absolutely fair and lust just to all in that it would apportion the school taxes of the city upon the people at large therein according to the valuation of their property properly contemporaneously with the adoption of the general school system after a brief and unimportant discussion the matter was referred to the finance committee the board then adjourned for two weeks |