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NEWSLETTER |
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The average attendance in the whole school, last month, was 205 scholars, divided among the four rooms as follows: Grammar Department, 38; First Grade, 35; Seeond Grade, 50; Third Grade, 82. In the second and third grades, the number of scholars in attendance far exceeds the accommodations, fully twenty in the latter being without seats or desks. Considering it as an accepted fact that this overcrowded condition of our schoolrooms is conducive to neither health nor learning, the mind naturally turns to inquiry as to the best manner of securing increased and sufficient accommodations. The entire upper story of our school edifice is as yet unfinished, the space being merely partitioned off, by studding, into a hallway and four rooms. An estimate of the cost of finishing, made recently, by two of our carpenters, is $450 per room, which with $250 for furniture, would make the total cost for one room, $700; or of finishing all four and furnishing one, $2050. We believe, however, that the work could be done for much less than that, and that $1700 or $1800 should cover the whole expense. The school fund on hand at the present time, amounting
to about $500, is necessary for and directed by law to be used
exclusively for, the payment of teachers and the general maintenance
of the school. There is, therefore, no other way to secure increased
accommodations, either temporary or permanent, than by the levying
of a special tax, for that purpose. The assessed value of the
taxable property in Livermore School District is about $700,000.
To raise the $700 necessary to finish and furnish one room, it
would be necessary to levy a tax of ten cents on the hundred
dollars; or, to raise the $2050 considered necessary |
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| to finish four rooms and furnish one, a tax of thirty cents on the hundred dollars. The cost of assessing and collecting, which is apportioned and added to each man's tax, would be about $100 in each instance. If the smaller sum be raised, an additional expense of $100, for assessing and | collecting, must be borne by the taxpayers, when it beomes necessary to finish another room, and levy another tax. Should the larger sum be raised, it will undoubtedly be unnecessary to levy another tax, for many years to come, if ever. |
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November25, 2000
