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Show Conditions of Our Public School As Seen by Club Committee (Continued from last week) EXPENDITURES The salary of the board members was lixed by the county commissioners commission-ers at $200.00 apiece, with traveling expenses not to exceed $100 each. The salary may now be raised by the school board to $300.00, the limit set by the legislature. The total traveling expenses ex-penses of the first year was $274 23. The superintendent is paid $1,500 and traveling expenses, which amounted amoun-ted for the first thirteen jnonths to $343.00. This amount should not be charged wholly to that account as lie distributes supplies, books, brings teachers or board members together for consultation, etc. The surplus of books and supplies are taken where needed. Considerable traveling is necessary, as the superintendent is expected to spend much of his time in the schools. Last year his mileage was over 3000. An otlice assistant was paid $64.00 for typewriting and mime'ograpliic work. By the use of tli'e mimeograph hundreds of pounds of printed outlines out-lines and helps were sent out to the schools and that at a very low cost. The clerk's salary is $(300.00 with no allowance for traveling. He attends all board meetings, keeps the minutes, issues all warrants, keeps the accounts and checks up with the principals for all supplies and equipment. The administrative expense is $1.51 per capita of school population or 5.8 of the total. That ' of North Sanpete for the same year was $300.00 greater but the per capita was $1.46. That of Sevier countv is over $2,500.00 greater and the per capita is $1.78. The teaching cost per capita in the above named districts was $1.48 in are in a good condition can responsi-bilty responsi-bilty for any damage be fixed. INSURANCE All buildings are insured for about one-third of their cost. The present legislature will be asked to organize the state schools into an insurance district and a fund will be created Sevier, in North Sanpete $15.68 and South Sanpete $16.73. The elementary elemen-tary school's of South Sanpete ran two weeks longer than in the other oth-er districts. The teaching costs of these districts is a minimum when compared with that of other districts of the state. According to reports Sevier county is now pursuing a policy of rigid economy, The system of accounting now in general use in school districts of the state, if followed out completely will give very definite information in regard re-gard to the varied costs of the system. A supplemental annual report should be published which would reveal re-veal all the necessary details pertaining pertain-ing to the expenditures and income. SCHOOL SUPPLIES The system which is being worked out charges the supplies used or distributed dis-tributed to the school principal using them and lie in turn with each teacher. teach-er. The teacher keeps a check on each student. The wasteful use of sufficient to take care of the probable losses from fire. The statistics of fire losses give warrant to the conclusion conclu-sion reached by a representative committee com-mittee that a considerable saying can be effected. All boilers are now insured, which brings an additional outlay of $50 per year. This carries with it regular expert inspection which may, as it already did in the case of the temple boiler avert the disaster of an explosion. explo-sion. By following the advice given by the insspeccor a yearly saving in fuel consumption of about $200.00 lias been effcted in Manti. TRANSPORTATION The expense of transporting pupils amounted in 1915-16 to $1,703,12. Two wagons are run for grade children one from Christenburg to Gunnison and the other from Westview to Gunnison. Gun-nison. Schools were formerly held at those places, but it is fourid to be a more efficient and considerably cheaper method. A mileage of five cents per mile on.e way for each high school student residing more than three miles from the school is allowed. The maximum however is fixed at 35f per day. (Continued next week) I materials is thus largely eliminated. The supply order for the first year was based on what had been usually purchased. At the end of the year approximately ap-proximately $1,200 wortli were on hand. Not all of this can be attributed, attribu-ted, however, to the economical use of material. I Under consolidation supplies have j been obtained at a much lower price. I The small districts often paid a double dou-ble price, The supplies for the cur-' ' rent year were largely purchased early ear-ly last spring, before the advance in paper supplies had effected the price materially: Since then there has been a raise of about 100. If the present prices of paper maintain ; thefcisel ves there will be a heavy additional ad-ditional burden placed on the school system, as not only wili it effect the cost of paper used but that of the text books as well. REPAIRS AND REPLACEMENT t The policy of keeping all desks in a decent condition, which lias been fol-" fol-" lowed in the elementary schools of ' i Manti has been adopted by the board j and all desks are now in good shape, j ; The initial cost has amounted to sev-3 sev-3 eral hundred dollars, but slow and steady process of destruction has been effectually stopped. Only when desks |