Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-08-12 | Page 14 | Desks Taken from Another Building

DESKS TAKEN FROM IBTB BllDI GnuiHe School Board Slips Second Sec-ond Coup Over" on City School Board. When the Sugar House district was annexed an-nexed to Salt Luke City several montlu; ago, with its 300 school children and a six-room school building, tho city board of education was under the Impression that the school property would bo available avail-able for uhc without any additional x-pensu x-pensu to the board, but it. now develops that the Granlt.i school board stole a march on the city board and removed all of the desks from tho building, and left nothing but the bare building,"" without with-out any furniture- whatever. At a recent meeting of the committee on buildings and grounds of the board of education, the rriutter of pressing the Sugar House school building into service until other provision could bo mado for the pupils In tho annexed territory was discussed, and It was thought that iho building could be used without any additional ad-ditional cost to tho board. Superintendent Superintend-ent oMiulIdlngs Eli A. Folland gave tho members of the committee quiW; a shock-when shock-when ho Informed them that every desk had been removed from the building by the Granite board and that new furniture would have to bo purchased. For the six rooms this would mean an outlay oi $800. and as the building is old and until for permanent use, the committee com-mittee decided to make other arrangements arrange-ments for the accommodation of the Sugar House pupils. This Is tho second lemon handed to the city board of education by the Granite board, as the same action was taken when the Waterloo school properly was annexed 10 the city nlong with that territory. ter-ritory. Instead of getting school buildings build-ings ready for occupancy In both cases, the city board got empty buildings, with nothing but screw holes in the lloors to I indicate where the desks once stood. There Ik some question as to the legal right of the Granite board to remove tho desks from the buildings, but tho clly board docs not seem inclined to lest tlie matter.