4. To elect a physician, not a member of the board, whose salary must not exceed twelve hundred dollars per annum; 5. To elect a secretary, whose salary must not exceed six hundred dollars per annum, who must give bond in the sum of five thousand dollars; 6. To prescribe in particular the duties of the superintendent, physician, and secretary; 7. To purchase, from time to time, such materials as may be suitable for the requirements of the manufacturing and other departments of the home, to audit the bills therefor, and forward them to the state board of examiners; 8. To fix the market price of all wares manufactured in the home, and of all wares manufactured elsewhere by non-resident beneficiaries, and to provide for and regulate the sale of all such manufactured wares; 9. To fix the compensation of common laborers and of all other employees in the home, whose wages are not herein established; 10. To grade and fix the price of skilled and unskilled labor and the amount of work required in the various departments to constitute a day's labor, and to permit the inmates to work at piece-work; 11. To authorize work to be let out to blind people, so that such beneficiaries as in their judgment may require it, may receive it at their residence, and for such piece-work to pay liberal prices, so as to yield, as near as possible, the compensation of resident laborers; but in no case, to incur any indebtedness for labor contracts with the beneficiaries, resident or otherwise, when there is not sufficient money on hand to pay the same; 12. To take, receive, manage, and invest all moneys or property hereafter bequeathed or donated to said home, in accordance with the wishes of the testator or donor; or if no conditions are attached to the bequests or donations, then to invest such moneys or proceeds of property for the best interests of the home. If any donation or bequest is trammeled with any religious conditions of a sectarian character, or conditioned in any manner antagonistic to the provisions of this chapter, or in conflict with any necessary rule or regulation of the home, the board may refuse to accept such donation or bequest, and is hereby authorized to reject the same. Donations or bequests may be received by the state treasurer, or by the president of the board of directors; but no donation or bequest accompanied by any condition must be received until it has been ordered approved and received by the board, and notice thereof given by the secretary to the state controller. Any bequest or donation received or collected by the president of the board must be immediately paid over by him to the state treasurer, and at the same time the president must forward to the state controller a statement thereabout, verified by his oath. All moneys received by the state treasurer must be placed to the credit of the "fund of the industrial home of adult blind." The investment of funds by the board can be made only in the same manner as the approval of claims, subject likewise to the action of the state board of examiners thereon. History: Enacted March 21, 1907, Stats. and Amdts. 1907, p. 790. § 2207d. DUTIES OF DIRECTORS. The duties of such board are: 1. To make inquiry into the department of labor and expense, the condition of the home and its prosperity, and to employ all reasonable means to make the same self-supporting; 2. To hold stated meetings at the home at least once in every month; 3. To keep at the home a record of their proceedings, which must be accessible to the public during the hours of nine a. m to four p. m., excepting on legal holidays; 4. To report annually, in the month of December, to the governor a statement of receipts and expenditures, the condition of the home, the number of inmates, and the number of beneficiaries doing work at their own residences, and such other matters touching the management of the home as they may deem proper. The annual report must be verified by the oath of the president of the board of directors. The superintendent of state printing is authorized to print annually two thousand copies of such report, which copies the board must circulate in the manner appearing to them to be in the best interests of the home; 5. To provide dormitories for males and females in separate departments; 6. To contract for provisions, fuel, and all other supplies needed for any period of time not exceeding one year; and such contracts must be limited to bona fide dealers in the several classes of articles contracted for. Such contract must be given to the lowest responsible bidder, at a public letting thereof, if the price bid is fair and not greater than the usual market prices. Each bid must be accompanied by such security as the board requires. Notice of the time, place, and letting of each contract must be given for at least two consecutive weeks in a daily paper published in the city of San Francisco, and in one newspaper published in the city or town where the home is located. If all the bids at any letting are deemed by the board unreasonably high, it may decline to contract, and may again advertise for proposals, and so continue to renew the advertisement until satisfactory contracts are made; and in the mean time the board may contract with any person whose contract is just and equitable, but no contract thus made must extend beyond sixty days. No bid must be accepted when it is higher than any other bid, made at the same letting, for the same class or schedule of articles. When two or more bids are equal in amount, the board may divide the contract between the bidders; 7. To designate the number of employees, prescribe their duties, and fix their compensation, and to approve or disapprove the appointments made by the superintendent. History: Enacted March 21, 1907, Stats. and Amdts. 1907, p. 792. § 2207e. THE PRESIDENT [AND HIS DUTIES]. The board of directors must elect one of their number president. As such he is ex officio a member of each standing committee, and must appoint all committees unless otherwise ordered by the board. He must make careful and diligent inquiry into the management of the home, and report the result thereof at each meeting of the board, with such recommendations as he may wish to make concerning such management. History: Enacted March 21, 1907, Stats. and Amdts. 1907, p. 792. § 2207f. THE SUPERINTENDENT [SALARY, POWERS AND DUTIES]. The superintendent is the chief executive officer of the home. He must be a man of good education and of good moral character and business experi ence. His salary is twenty-one hundred dollars per annum. He must execute an official bond in the sum of five thousand dollars. His powers and duties are as follows: 1. To superintend the grounds, buildings, workshops, manufacturing departments, and property of the home; 2. To certify to the board of directors the number of instructors and employees needed in the manufacturing departments, and to recommend to the board the appointment of suitable persons for these positions; 3. To dismiss any domestic, servant, or person employed at the homeother than an instructor or employee in the manufacturing department-whenever in his judgment the good of the home demands it; 4. To prescribe and enforce the duties of all instructors, employees, domestics, servants, and laborers employed at the home; 5. To admit inmates only upon the certificate of the attending physician, or by order of the board, as hereinafter provided; to control the inmates, and to prescribe and enforce a system of instruction and labor; 6. To suspend any employee or instructor pending a recommendation to the board for his permanent dismissal, and to appoint substitutes during the absence of any or all employees; 7. [To suspend inmate, when.] Pending a recommendation to the board for his final dismissal, to suspend the privileges of, and remove from the premises, any inmate whose presence appears to be in conflict with the interests of the home. Should any inmate so suspended or removed be in destitute condition, the superintendent must, upon his demand, furnish him with suitable lodgings and board elsewhere, until the decision of the board is made thereon. The bill therefor must be presented to the board for payment, in the same manner as other claims; 8. To reside at the home; 9. To keep a daily record of his official acts in the manner prescribed by the board, and to present the same to the board at each monthly meeting, verified by his oath, in accordance with the blanks furnished by the board for that purpose, and to make in the monthly reports such recommendations as he may deem proper. The monthly report must contain a statement of all stock, goods, and supplies of any nature received at the home during the month; 10. [To turn over moneys, etc.] To turn over to the board, at the close of each month, together with the balance sheet, all moneys derived by him from the sale of manufactured goods, and all revenues derived by him from any source whatsoever in behalf of and for the benefit of the home, and to take the secretary's receipt therefor; 11. [To make monthly and annual accounts.] To make up and present to the board, in the month of July of each year, his annual accounts and statement of the affairs of the home, verified by his oath. The annual statement must be an epitome of the monthly reports, and must contain the number and names of all inmates, officers, and employees, and their respective dates of admission or beginning of employment, and the respective dates of dismissals made during the year. It must contain a full review of all receipts and expenditures, and an invoice of all goods and stock and supplies on hand. It must contain, also, the average weekly cost of board per capita of all persons residing at the home, without considering the labor credits, and the average annual cost of instruction per capita. It must show clearly the relation of the gross products to the gross cost, and the percentage lacking in order to become self-supporting. For the making up of such statement, the superintendent shall have full access to the secretary's and other books of the home, and such statement must be independent of each and all of the other annual reports; 12. To make requisitions on the board of directors for articles and goods needed at the home, and to order the same as directed by the board. It may, by resolution spread upon its minutes, authorize the superintendent, in case of emergency, to make purchase of material and supplies for the home without such previous requisition. He must, in addition, perform such further services as may be required of him by the board. History: Enacted March 21, 1907, Stats. and Amdts. 1907, p. 793. § 2207g. THE PHYSICIAN [AND HIS DUTIES]. The physician must examine at his office, at a stated hour daily, and at the home, at a stated hour upon the days of his visits, all applicants for admission, as to their blindness. If the applicant appears to be a proper subject for admission to the benefits of the home, the physician must forthwith deliver to him his certificate of admission, directed to the board and to the superintendent of the home. Upon presentation of the certificate the superintendent must admit the applicant as a beneficiary. Any applicant rejected by the attending physician has the right of appeal to the board. [Monthly statement.] The physician must present to the board, monthly, a statement of the sanitary condition of the home, and must therein specify the days and dates of his visits, and the age and nativity of each person to whom he has issued, during the month, a certificate of admission, together with the cause or causes of blindness, physical condition, and also as to whether any such inmates would be benefited by medical treatment, as well as any other matters which the board may deem proper to require of him. The monthly statements must be made upon blanks furnished by the board for that purpose. [Annual report.] He must present to the board, in the month of July, his annual report, which must be an epitome of his monthly reports, and in which he must specify, with particularity, all sickness at the home during the year; and such observations and recommendations may be therein made as seem to him pertinent to the sanitary welfare of the home. The attending physician must, in no instance, permanently treat any inmate for blindness, or any optical affection, without permission in each case first being given by the board, at request of the person so afflicted. The attending physician must visit the home once every day. History: Enacted March 21, 1907, Stats. and Amdts. 1907, p. 794. § 2207h. BONDS. The official bonds in this chapter required must be approved by the board of directors, and filed and recorded in the office of the secretary of state. The approval of the bond must be by indorsement thereon by the president, and reference thereon made by the secretary, to such action of the board. History: Enacted March 21, 1907, Stats. and Amdts. 1907, p. 795. § 2207i. PAYMENT OF SALARIES AND EXPENSES. The salaries of the superintendent, secretary, and physician, and all other expense accounts, including the wages of workmen at trades, and of employees, must be paid monthly out of the moneys appropriated by the legislature for the support of the home, or from accumulations from the industries of the home, or from donations and bequests to the home, made without restraining conditions, whenever resort to such donations or bequests is necessary. [All claims, except salaries, to be audited.] All such claims, excepting salaries of said officers, must be first approved by the board of directors, and must be so indorsed by the secretary and attested by the president, and must immediately thereafter be forwarded to the secretary of the state board of examiners. [Method of payment.] When the claims have been approved by that board, the controller must issue his warrant therefor, directed to the state treasurer, in favor of the board of directors. The state treasurer is authorized to pay such warrant only when indorsed by the secretary, and attested by the president of the board. [Auditing claims of employees and workmen.] No claim for wages of employees, or of workmen at trades must be audited by the board of directors until after it receives from the foreman his monthly time certificate, duly verified by his oath, and stating the amount of labor performed by the employee or workman. History: Enacted March 21, 1907, Stats. and Amdts. 1907, p. 795. § 2207j. DELIVERY OF MONEYS. Every officer and employee of the home, and any other person acquiring possession, by any means whatever, of moneys belonging to the home, must, at the close of each month, deliver the same to the board of directors, accompanied by a statement thereof, verified by his oath, taking the secretary's receipt therefor. [Disposition of moneys.] The board of directors must, at least once in every month, forward to the state treasurer all moneys in their charge belonging to the home. The secretary of the board must, at the same time, forward to the state controller a statement thereof, verified by his oath. All such moneys received by the state treasurer must be placed to the credit of the “fund of the industrial home of adult blind." History: Enacted March 21, 1907, Stats. and Amdts. 1907, p. 795. § 2207k. RESOLUTIONS OF ELECTION AND DISMISSAL. Immediately upon the election or dismissal of any officer, whose salary is fixed by the provisions of this chapter, the board must cause the secretary to forward to the controller of state a certified copy of the resolution of such election or dismissal, which the controller must file in his office. History: Enacted March 21, 1907, Stats. and Amdts. 1907, p. 795. |