Urbana High School - Rosemary Yearbook (Urbana, IL)

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 (The Simrmanj ■OH '•’V THE BOARD OF EDUCATION The Board of Education of School District Number 116, Urbana, Illinois, consists of a president and six members. The president is elected annually, and two members are elected every year. The Board is selected by a majority vote of the people of the district, and receives no compensation. Regular meetings of the Board are held the first Thursday of each month in the Board room in the high school building at 7:30 p. m. Special meetings arc called by the president. The most important duties of the School Board in conjunction with the Superintendent of Schools arc to employ the teachers, janitors, truant officers, and other officers, and to fix their salaries, to select text books, and to adopt courses of study, to purchase supplies and fuel, to keep school buildings in repair, to submit bond issues to the vote of the people, to erect school buildings, and prescribe duties to teachers and others. Another important duty is to determine the amount of funds necessary to run the schools—not only the total amount, but also the amount needed for each item of the budget. The budget consists of eight main items .namely: General control business Educational Instruction Supervisors Principals Teachers Text l)ooks and supplies Operation of plant Janitors’ salaries, fuel, water, light, etc. Maintenance of plant Repair of buildings and repair of equipment Fixed charges Insurance, taxes Debt service Interest, redemption of bonds Auxiliary agencies Library, books, promotion of health Capital outlay Land, new buildings, alteration of old buildings. The real financial business of the Board of Education is to distribute the money collected by taxation and otherwise, as indicated by the budget above. Miss Walsh ' H. S. Secretary IU23 osb Twenty

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