I ASSERT PROVISIONS ARE AR ARNOT NOT CONSTITUTIONAL City School Board Bo rd Does Not Recognize Recognize Recognize nize Arbitration Findings in Granite Board Dispute That the state law providing for ar arbitration arbitration arbitration In case ca t of disputes between boards t of df f education is unconstitutional al in that it provides for the acting of executive officers ot cers in a Judicial capacity is s jI the tho contention of the Salt Lake City board ard of education In the dispute be between between between tween It and the Granite school board The Tho statute of which the city elly board of education complains was passed two years ago ag and purported to be bo for the purpose bf of assisting boards in dispute to arrive at an amicable agreement It provided that in ease cast of such dispute the superintendents of the two districts with the state superintendent of edu education education cation atlon should form an arbitration board and antI hear the matters in ques question question tion There is a strong suspicion on the tho part of the tho members of the city elt board of education U cation that the tho act was passed to help out the strict d district In the controversy D H iI Christensen city eit superintendent acting on the advice of the tho board b ard refused to sit and the arbi arbitration arbitration arbitration committee met without him and decided on the Issues in favor of the Granite district The city however has never neer recognized rc the finding The difficulty with the Granite district dis district dates from the thc taking over ocr of the Waterloo school from the Granito Granite die dis district triet into the city The building was vas found to be in such a both from sanitary and actual working standpoints that it was necessary to almost rebuild It ft The city cit therefore thought it should not be called upon to pay several se thousand dollars as the Granite district Insisted upon The Granite district on the other hand held that the ther city on taking over oer tho the school should assume the bonds outstanding which were issued for the purpose of paying for the erection of the thc building The original amount of the tho dispute was about but it is isnow Isnow isnow now between and The city board of education while not in any way recognizing the arbitration commission is disposed to compromise rather than have a lawsuit on Its hands and a meeting will be held early next week eek to consider what shall be bedone bedone bedone done In the matter