Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1910 — A CLEAN BILL GIVEN [ARTICLE]

A CLEAN BILL GIVEN

The Rensselaer School Board By the Field Examiners. The report of the field examiners who recently examined the school corporation of Rensselaer was received by the members of the school board Thursday, and it gives the board a clean bill and comemnds the management of the school affairs very highly. The report goes back to 1903, and in subimtting same to W. A. Dehority, State Examiner, the field examiners say: 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 ings of the" treasurers record, ” and source, and have verified the footthe amounts carried -forward on same, and find the balances in the two funds to be correct, as shown in our report. We have carefully summarized the amounts paid teachers, and other employe- and the salaried officers. comparing payments toTeachf ers with contracts on file and find that there has been no over-pay-ments.

Our analysis of expenditures for supplies. Shows that there has been no excessive pureha-es, or any otb•r irregularities in connection with the management of the school affairs of tfce 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 paid 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” from which service the school city 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.