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Show Conditions of Our Public School As Seen by Club Committee (Continued from last week) 1915 1910 District tax $33,403.26 $33,394.47 County tax 10,208.96 Transitory herds, forest reserve, etc. 2,002.91 undeterm'd State tax 13,990.25 22,318.00' High school 1,846.46 1,500.00 State lands 4,497.00 4,378.00 Tuition & fees 2,250.00 1,880.00 Rents 246.56 250.00 $68,445.30 $63,710.47 The decrease in revenue will be $3,000.00. RESOURCES AND LIABILITIES. (Consolidation effective) meetings. They 'generally attend teachers' institutes and occasionally visit the schools. The superintendent of schools is the executive officer. He nominates the teachers or recommends their dismissal dis-missal and the board confirms or rejects. re-jects. He has general supervision of the work of the teachers and the ja nitors and is responsibe to the board for the f ffioiency of the system. The Ogden Survey has the following to say In regard to the relationship and duties of boards and superintendents, superinten-dents, "A similar relationship should exist between a board of education and the superintendent of schools as exists between a board of bank directors direc-tors and the cashier of a bank, or between be-tween a board of directors of a hospi-. tal and the superintendent of the hos-tal." hos-tal." The duties and responsibilities of the superintendent are far greater than those conferred upon the county superintendent under the old system A comparison of salaries is illogical, June 1, 1915. ' Resources Cash, $791.34; sinking fund invested, $5,287.21; notes of Man- ti and Fayette school districts, $2,900 LiabilitiesBills and accounts payable, pay-able, 4,816.49; bills payable high school; $2,900.00; balance, $1,262.06. July I, 1916. Resources Cash, $1,455.94; sinking fund, $2,327.21; total, $3,783.15 The use of sinking funds to the amount of $3,060 for general purposes is illegal, as was also the creation by some of the old boards of the debt handed over to the consolidated district. dis-trict. The levy of 1916 for sinking fund purposes will produce about $1,400.00 Over $6,000.00 is necessary each year if the outstanding bonds are to be paid when due. The bonded indebtedness of the district is as follows: Ephraim bonds - $25,450.00 Manti bonds - 20,000.00 Fayette bonds - - 2,500.00 Sterling bonds - 1.500.00 Gunnison bonds - 20,000.00 $39,450.00 The land, building and equipment of the district is estimated to be worth $172,000. The Ephraim Public School building build-ing and the grounds has cost $59,600. In eight years a floating indebtedness indebted-ness of $29,500 was paid, additional school grounds were purchased costing cost-ing $4,600, and $2,327.21 was placed in the sinking fnnd and turned over to the new administration. The Manti School district turned pver to the new district cash and cash resources amounting to $4,534.62. Fayette had cash and cash resources amounting to $798.89. The High School district was behind be-hind $4,347.04. The Gunnison School district was behind about $2,000. GENERAL ADMINISTRATION.., Due to a quite general misunderstanding misunder-standing of the duties and responsibilities responsi-bilities of the board of education and the superintendent, a statement is necessary. The board of education is made up of five members, who are chosen re spectively from the five voting precincts pre-cincts into which the district was divided di-vided by act of the county commissioners. commiss-ioners. As a body when in session they represent all the people of the district and not one town or section. As a body they exercise complete control, con-trol, and all appointees are reponsible to them for the proper performance of their duties. Individually the board members have no authority save that which is delegated to them. On nearly all matters they act con-certly, con-certly, occasionally assigning special duties to committees or individual members. The care of school property proper-ty and its repair is assigned to the member residing within the precinct. Primarily tLey are a legislatiue body and not administrative. The board meets regularly once a month and about as often in special |