Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 223, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1910 — Rensselaer School Board Commended by Field Examiners. [ARTICLE]

Rensselaer School Board Commended by Field Examiners.

The report of the fipld examiners Who recently examined the books of the school board has been made public. It gives the board a clean bill of health and compliments the board on the way the affairs of the school has been jpanaged. The report is as follows: Dear Sir: In compliance with your instructions we have made an examination of the school corporation of the city of Rensselaer, Indiana, beginning with the fiscal year Aug. 1, 1903. We have carefully checked in the receipts from every source, and have verified the footings of the “treasurer’s record,’’ and the amounts carried forward on same, and find the balance in the two funds to be correct, as shown in our report. We have carefully summarized the amounts paid teachers, and other employee and the salaried officers, comparing payments to teachers with contracts on file and flqd that there has been no over-payments. Our analysis of expenditures for supplies, shows that there has been no excessive purchases, or any other irregularities in connection with the management of the school affairs of the city. It is worthy of note that interest accruing in 1907, of $21.85, was properly credited to the city by the treasurer, R. A. Parkison. Also subsequent to Jan. 1, 1908, the depository law has been strictly complied with, and all funds received, have been placed in depository banks.

With reference to the amount pgid out for “steam heating plant” this was to install the necessary pipes and radiators in two buildings, containing sixteen rooms, in order to utilize the exhaust steam from the city “light and water plant,” for which service the school pays SBOO per annum for -the heating of the two’buildings. We consider that the affairs of the school corporation of the city of Rensselaer are well managed, and that the patrons are furnished with a good school.