Show THE BOARD OF EDU EDUCATION CATION the board of education held a special meeting monday night to hear the report and consider the recommendations n of the committee on site and buildings I 1 in the absence of president scott vice president nelson presided the following members were present colbath pike duke new man young pratt and baldwin the committee reported as follows to the hon ioard of education gentlemen in presenting the following report redart your committee on sites and buildings desire to say that during the past week in company with the superintendent in we have visited many of the schools school and find them so crowded in every ward that it is impossible to do J 4 V justice to the pupils for lack of the necessary room and aspeci especially f ally is this the case in the sixth first second ninth the hunter building the nineteenth twentieth twenty first and eleventh wards your committee feel that valuable time is being consumed that n ight be eme loved 1 in the erection of much needed guilding and believe that they can be couer contracted for at from 10 to 20 per cent cheaper now than next spring because of so much labor being available and even if this should not prove to be the case the nee need of additional school buildings is so great t that we are justified in getting ar buildings ild ings under way wa we have no doubt dom of being able to secure all the sites needed and buildings erected for school bonds or cash at the option of the board very respectfully L W COLBATH chairman B 0 ARTHUR PRATT JOHN committee additional recommendations the following additional recommendations were adopted adopt eu first that a piece of ground shall be secured at once in or near the sixth district and recommend that this board solicit tenders of sites on streets running east and west in that district the site required to be ten by twenty rods and payment made in school bonds second that as soon as a site has been secured and approved this board proceed immediately to approve a plan and erect thereon hereon an eight room school building with all modern conveniences and improvements prove ments 9 third that in the erection of said bAil building ding payment be made for same in school bonds or cash at the option of this school board fourth we recommend that an addition of two rooms of about the size ot d 24 x 30 on the west side of the present building and 22 x 45 on the east side or thereabouts hereabouts be built immediately at the seventh school and of brick fifth that the committee be empowered to employ an architect adopt plans procure bids and award contract to lowest bidder sixth that this board proceed at once to approve PP ove a plan and invite bids for the erection of an eight room school building on the site of the second school which in tile the opinion of your committee is large enough and can be erected with very little inconvenience to the school chool t and in inviting bids for such building let it be understood that payment will be made in school bonds at par or cash at the option ot of the board seventh that an addition to the ninth school building be made in accordance with the plans now on file with such modifications as the committee may determine on and that this board invite bids for such work eighth that a four room building be erected in the rear of the eleventh school in accordance with plans already prepared with such modifications as the committee may determine on ninth that the platform in the nineteenth school should be removed so as to increase the floor space a chimney or chimneys built and spouting and conductors erected the artesian well should be repaired and a drinking fountain put up your committee recommend that drinking fountains should be erected at all schools where hydrants are now in use tenth that the committee on building and sites be instructed to invite bids for two sites in the third precinct each to be approximately rods and to be paid for in cash or bonds or by exchange of ifor the present site in the sixteenth ward and that two buildings be erected thereon 4 t 3 aft ather r eight or twelve rooms in the of ahe committee afi that an eight or twelve room ang ng be erected in the twentieth on the ground owned by the board building can be erected without ng with the school now in session I 1 same flame to be paid for in school bonds or ih h at the option of this board elath fth that two additional rooms be i to the twenty first school of the height and adjoining the some same on northwest ie e board then adjourned |