BOARD EDUCATION IRate I-Rate of Tax For the Ensuing Year Fixed IT WILL BE ONE AND A HALF MILLS fte Finance Committees Report On the Ex jrcndltures and Resources of the Board Other Business Transacted Tho board of education met at 730 last evening withPresident Scott in the chair and Messrs Young Newman Armstrong Nelson Pike Colbath Johnson and Snow 1i attendance P L Williams tho boards attorney reported re-ported that the amount of taxes enjoined in the tax cases was 4900 Ho expected that ttc question would be determined at the coming session of the supreme court The claim of Taylor Romney Armstrong Arm-strong represented that they held note for 5000 given bj the trustees of the Eleventh school district and they wanted the cash Referred to the committee on finance Miss Lizzio Koini one of the public schoolteachers S school-teachers tendered her resignation on account ac-count of ill health Accepted The building committee reported that the Fourteenth ward school building has been finally completed and there was due the contractor about 87000 Accompanying this was a communication from Architect Monheim m which he recommended that the building be accepted and that the penalty pen-alty against Contractor Baldwin for delay be not enforced as the delay could not be avoided and tho contractor had lost between be-tween 4KO and o000 on the building because be-cause of the advance in the price of material ma-terial Mr Pike thought it might be well to find out whether there was any mechanics me-chanics lien on the building but on Mayor Scotts statement that lien would not hold against a city building this was dropped Mr Johnson stated that he know thero had been great difficulty in obtaining build Jug material Other members stated that on investigating investigat-ing the matter they had come to the conclusion con-clusion that Mr Baldwin was not to blame tor the delay n o zt luuiiuu LU pay uiu uuuuumur uicepu tho building and not enforce the penalty was carried I P L Williams to whom was referred the claim of Hanlon Benson who were awarded a contract for erecting the Fifteenth Fif-teenth Ward school building and aid not get a chance to carry it out and who therefore there-fore claimed damages forl700 the amount of profit they would have made reported that the parties were entitled to some i compensation but he thought a few hundred i hun-dred dollars would satisfy them As a i matter of law the measure of damages would be the profits they might have made if the contract had been performed Referred Re-ferred to the committee on buildings P J Moran offered to put in the Fourteenth Four-teenth ward building a 50gallon boiler and heating apparatus for 110 Referred to the committee on building Mr Armstrong of the committee on furniture fur-niture reported that another carload of desks had been ordered from the Grand Rapids company The two school bells had arrived and were ready to be hung Adopted The committee on teachers reported that another room in the exposition building had been fitted up for school purposes They had instructed the superintendent to extend the holidays from Friday until the first Monday in the New Year The committee com-mittee recommended that Harpers series for supplemental readers be adopted that east and west side high schools be consolidate consoli-date d into school Fourteen and that the superintendent utilize in that school the teachers now employed in the east side school the consolidation to take effect immediately im-mediately after holidays Adopted On motion of Mr Pike the committee on buildings was authorized to make such disposition dis-position of the east side high school building build-ing as might be deemed best as soon as it becomes vacant The committee on finance to whom was referred the matter of compensation for P L Williams as attorney of the board recommended re-commended that the compensation be not fixed but that Mr Williams be required to furnish bills for services from time to time The committee also reported several accounts referred to them The same committee sent in the following important report In accordance with the provisions of section 121 chapter Laws of Utah 1820 your committee com-mittee on finance beg leave to submit their estimate esti-mate and financial statement as therein required re-quired The revenues estimated to be available lor the schcols of this city for the current year tndlng June iX < next are as follows trom the district taxes as pet Collector Hardys reckoning leavingout amount in litigation 114000 Territorial school fund apportionment 60000 i Total n 174000 Tho expenses will be as follows i Current cost of running schools expenses ex-penses ol board official salaries ete5l30000 Finishing Fouiteenth district school part already paid 0000 Furniture uu G503 Old district liabilities probably payable th ycaruu 8703 Total uu S170 JOO Leaving a surplus this year ofu 3800 For the succeeding year beginning July 1 IPai our estimates are Current expenses u Un 5135000 3Tirniture 3000 Extraordinary expeuSesn 2C03 Total u 8140000 To meet this we reckon much upon as territorial terri-torial apj otionraeat as we shall receive this resent year which would have been S7C200 to be raited by taxation A tax of 1V4 mills on the ollar will almost exactly be the sum required i nil we therefore recommend that our levy be made 1t that rate VVai XELSON Chairman JOHN N PIKE It W YOUXG HuiAii JGUKSOX The following bills were allowed lAucrbaclt Bros 8 171 CO j A L Williams n 177 SO itLPoThCo 5 00 D Gaby n u 2M JO Kelly Co JU SO Adams Brown 45 90 Pahel Cunningham 5 00 ephTrcaiayiie 21 00 Jirfcrtf News 555 Jribune < u S5 M V J Newman 3700 Vv S Emery h oj m Joslirt Pailt 35 go T C Armstrong 7305 George Low 3120 Jacob Weilcr 2t1 on rfG Walden y 7 0 Alex SIcRae rn m V Matthews om J E Dooly 107500 W S Voollcy 4500 William Fowler 4 55 Total Tg > 373 23 The board then adjourned until the second sec-ond Thursday in January