Show school board makes wise E expenditures public money la Is judiciously spent tn in in erecting new school build ings in vintant vintah district on this page we show bow photographs photograph a of school bull buildings dings recently completed plated in uintah county and compare them with photographs ot of pi pioneer neer school buli buildings dings in thia district ahe contrast is su so marked that one way may well wonder hw school gilhool was conducted in such buildings in t which lich neither proper lights light heat nor ventilation was now however with the now buildings constructed ted additions made to existing buildings and other cha changes aiges made to promote school elti clency the schools in the uintah district stand as a monument to the and business ime hue administration ui the board of education of the uintah school district in connection with the pro gres sive spirit and executive aballi ability t y of superintendent larl thompson Thomp Bon i which has also manifested itself in the res results ulta obtained i when it la Is considered that four now new tour four room buildings and two dom ne two room buildings were con strutted ted and repairs made to every other building at a total cost of 98 it Is indeed to bo be considered a distinct accomplishment ahe average cost per room was slightly in excess of 2500 2600 architect pope in his letter to the board as published last week la in this rey ray gard said eald this la is about the amount this character of school buildings usually costs in the most thickly settled parts of the state where both labor and materials are readily available and consequently comparatively cheap whereas in your district both skilled and labor and materials of all kinds an very ivery difficult to obtain and come abnormally high and sume some like Por cement tor for ivanco are almost prohibitive it will therefore be at once onca app araut that the cost coot at which your now new bui bai dings dines were ore built is ie the result of the moet painstaking and judicious expenditure of the funds 0 of f the not all the new are shown in the accompanying photographs but one each of the three types of buildings is shown the work which required architectural supervision was as aa follows vernal school toilet room and boiler room additions and modern heating and ventilating system masser maeser same as vernal ce central bennett school two room addition to old two room building union school new lour four room building i lapoint school I 1 new four our room building wilson school new four room bu building alding alta school new four room building I 1 dry fork school new two room building indea independence indence school now new two room building A detailed report of 0 all work done tou fou brick buildings with tour four class roona rooms one library and one t teachers eacher a room each one two room brick building and one fo roomed cement block building with book and supply rooms two portable school houses one two room addition with ith new hall and supply room two additions for heating plants two boilers tw two 0 fans and complete heating equipment properly installed and four toilet rooms fully equipped with flush toilets 24 neat sanitary outdoor out door toilets 10 sightly and substantial stant lal coal houses and 6 cement cisterns are included in the above amount in addition practically all the old buildings have been repaired remodeled painted and calco mined as needed twenty nine and one halt half acres of land was purchased by the board at an expenditure of school furniture and app apparatus aratus totaled 08 out ot of this amount the expense of installing 61 51 round oak heaters at a cost of 2 20 each Is included furniture and equipment tor for the office building of the board of education amounted to 08 A floating indebtedness 0 of f was assumed and an aut automobile mobile costing 1139 was purchased A grand total of 4 44 4 was expended out of the funds secured by the bond issue and a balance of 2927 66 56 remains both the state school architect joseph monson and the district architect hyrum pope are very p praiseworthy balse of the achievement of this county in the matter or of erecting school buildings the county now has buildings that will render efficient service for years yearb to come and will assure the best beat possible conditions hoped for in the matter of environment viron ment in the school room architect pope said eald the following in regard to the purchase of the tha automobile automobile As tar far as construction Is concerned the buildings bull dinga are of good quality and the district has received value tor for every ever dollar which was expended in this respect you yoo have been moa fortunate than moms come school districts that we know of which have lost several thousands of dollars through the simple fact that t the he actual construction work was rot frequently inspected durin the progress of the buildings apparently patently ly you realized real laed from the very start the imports importance nce of 0 thus carefully supervising the work on each building and inasmuch as your country is one of magnificent distances dl ou also realized that in order to accomplish this i it t was absolutely i imperative that you have quiet quick v means ot of con conveyance ce and you therefore provided yourself with tn automobile the money expended on this has haa come back mant fold on this item of supervision alone as it his enabled you to make more frequent infectious Inspect lona of each job and you thereby could dete detect t and order removed any improper or materials ind and workmanship before the buildings had bad progressed too tar far to mike make the removal of defect defective ivo wor borik impracticable |