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Show 9 Iron County School Board Holds Semi-Monthly Semi-Monthly Meeting The Iron County School Board approved the basis for teachers salaries for the coming year at its regular semi-monthly meeting held Monday, by continuing the increment incre-ment on the same basis as last year, with the understanding that the total appropriation for salaries will remain the same except that If additional teachers are needed, there will be an appropriation made to take care of the extra cost. This approval was also given on the basis that the total operating expenses ex-penses would not exceed the expenditures ex-penditures for the current year and that they would come within the tax levy of 10 mllss set up for 1941. This does not include the levy set up to take care of the debt service of the system. There is a possibility that one new teacher will be required in the elementary school at Cedar City, It was announced, due to the Impossibility Impos-sibility of breaking the four divisions divi-sions of the first grade down to fewer than four in the grades above as has been done In the past. It will also be necessary to employ four new teachers at the Cedar City high school to take care of the additional load caused by taking over the fourth year of the high school, heretofore handled at the B. A. C. The Board also authorized the employment of a librarian for the local high school, such librarian to be employed early enough so that books in the library can be cataloged cata-loged before the opening of school in September. Other matters taken up at the Monday meeting Included the question ques-tion of participation in an elementary ele-mentary work conference to be held at the Utah Agricultural College Col-lege this summer, starting about June 16 and continuing for a period of three weeks. All the districts in the state have been invited to participate in the conference and It was decided by the Board that the Iron County district should take part. Approval was given to the request of the Parowan high school that a class of approximately 25 agricultural students attend a conference con-ference to be held In Logan on April 24-25, the district to furnish transportation there and return for the boys. Thornton Jones, custodian of the Cedar school buildings, met with the Board and presented proposals for Improvements in the heating plant and incinerary equipment, the proposals being taken under advisement for further consideration considera-tion and investigation. Board members Dr. James S. Prestwich and Heber Sevy, together with Superintendent N. J. Barlow, gave reports of the administrative conference held in Salt Lake City last week end which they attended. |
