| Show y T THE BOARD OF EDUCATION ie 0 board of education met in lar ar session nov eth in the ab of president scott vice prest t bielson occupied the chair the there berg ip in attendance were young Bay bould newman pratt pike duke ond and alft AIT the following communications were read and referred the surveyors of the pacific insurance union have issued a circular of the rate of insurance on the several schoolhouses of this city after having inspected the buildings which are as follows on the 1000 for one for three year years nos NOB 8 10 11 12 11 18 19 20 and 21 9 00 1800 18 00 no 13 1000 2000 nos 5 and 7 1160 1150 2300 23 00 nos NOB 8 and 4 12 1250 69 26 2500 00 we should be plea pleased sied to insure any of the above yours truly FULLER YOUNG SCHOOL BOOMS TO LET understanding that you are short of school rooms to accommodate pupils will say that if ahe fourteenth ward school rooms will be of any service to you yon we can let you have the three rooms that have been used for school purposes they are seated and supplied with steam heat ready for immediate use yours youra respectfully GEORGE H TAYLOR geological collection to the board of education chairman of committee on supplies dear sir we wish hereby to apply for cabinet of geological collection 0 of the seventh grade fourteenth school respectfully JENNY k M CARNEY CAKNEY A W SMITH TREASUR treasurers ERS REPORT the following report of receipts and disbursements for the month of october was made by the treasurer amount of overdraft first of the month S 43 received from D K R allen alien county tax 00 D B R allen alien county tax e 00 EB E R clute city tax 1000 oo 00 J B moreton for credit of nineteenth district rent ll 11 1 00 10 03 disbursed i paid clerks warrants 01 balance overdraft dose close of october 17 47 I 1 hereby certify that the above is a correct statement J B WALDEN treasurer of board of education received and filed f SCHOOL WANTED A large number of residents of that portion of the city lying between third and fifth east streets south of ninth south street asked that school be established in that vicinity forthwith referred to the committee on buildings and sites BOND BIDS the following bond bids were read and rejected on a vote of 7 to 1 mr newman alone voting for the adoption of one or the other SALT LAKE CITY nov 3 1891 to the honorable board of education salt bait lake city gentlemen for 1000 5 per cent 20 year gold bonds of your district dated july 1 1891 interest and principal payable at some bank in the city of new york we offer loss less a cash commission of 6 7 15 per cent the bonds to be delivered at some bank in boston mass on or before january 1 1892 ana and taken up and paid for by us as follows on or before january 1 1892 on or before march 1 on or before may 1 1892 25 on or before june 30 1862 1892 ya provided that of said ad bonds shall i be taken up and paid for on delivery of said bonds with papers evidencing satisfactorily facto rily to our attorneys their legality and that on all ail bonds taken up and paid for before dates given above 5 per percent cent interest per annum anburn shall lye be deducted from the amount to be paid for said bonds bondi for the time thus sooner taken up and paid for it this bid is accepted we offer to furnish within fifteen days the guarantee of the broadway national bank of Z boston in the amount of 5 per percent cent or that this contract will be fully and faithfully performed this bid is conditioned on immediate acceptance in writing A FERNALD O A co 20 water street boston SALT LAKE CITY utah nov 2 1891 to the honorable board of education salt lake city gentlemen for the 1000 5 per cent twenty year gold bonds bonas of your district dated july 1 1891 interest and principal prin principal ciTal payable at some bank in the city 0 of now new york ork we offer less a cash commission of 6 7 15 per cent the bonds to be delivered at some bank in chicago or new york at our option on or before january I 1 iwa and token taken up and paid for as follows follows on or before january 1 1892 on or before march 1 1892 on or before may 1 1892 W on or before june 0 1892 pi provided that of said bonds shall be taken up and paid for on delivery of said bonds with papers evid evidencing encino satisfactorily to our attorneys their legality and that on all bonds taken up and paid for before the date above givens per cent interest shall te be deducted from the amount to be paid said bonds for the time thus sooner taken up and paid for this bid is conditional on immediate acceptance PARSON LEACH fe co by GEO chicago ills agent TEACHERS AND SALARIES the committee on teachers reported as follows we the committee on teachers recommend that the superintendents employment and assignment of the teachers named below be approved with the salaries that are mentioned after each name name assignment alignment salary ary mary A bowers hooper TO 00 mrs 8 A henry fourteenth 65 00 miss bliss mabel T held twentieth 66 65 00 A AM M graves whitney emma whitney 66 65 00 S as R bartlett tenth 65 00 georgia wheeler seventeenth 56 55 00 georgia errington fifth 66 65 00 nellie neille leach Leac hHooper 70 00 nellie shelley seventh 70 00 mrs A J gunnell 76 75 00 rose B hooper 60 00 we also recommend that each of the following named teachers have their salary raised 5 per month miss F blackburn eleventh school miss blanche hindman seventh school and that the increased salaries begin with with the third month OFFERS RECEIVED the committee on sites and buildings reported as follows regarding the school site advertised for in the sixth ward we have received the following offers william buttle offered to sell rods in lot 3 block 44 plat A for C fenton offered one half of lot 3 block 44 plat A for J C watson atson hugh watson cateon T ireen green and J H poulton offered rods on fifth south between third and fourth west streets for we also report having secured an offer from mrs emma fenton for rods and an offer for rods and WO rods of back land adjoining the land offered by mrs fenton featon we recommend that the offer of these two persons be accepted and arrangements ments a at ai once be made to secure the title thereto on such terms as the board ma may determine it will be observed th that at boak both these offers are for cash but your committee believe that on payment of 1000 to mrs fenton and 1000 to mr battle that deeds can be secured vesting title in this board and said deeds deposited in escrow with the county recorder or one of the banks in this city on conditions that the deferred payments of and 2500 respectively ively draw interest at 8 per cent per annum with the understanding that the board take immediate possession of the property and proceed to improve the same on consults con sulta ion with some of the members of the finance committee it was deemed advisable to discon discontinue all negotiations tiati ons for sites for bonda bond as a sale of a few of the bonds in this way would prevent a consummation of a sale of the remainder to the bond buyers A discussion followed which ended in the committee being authorized to accept the offers of mrs fenton mr buttle and mr poulton SCHOOL HOUSE PLANS the same committee offered the following report which was waa adopted we have also examined plans for school houses and recommend the building of a hall in the third story atory for the use of the schools in entertainments general exercises and political meetings meeting etc your committee ask that they be authorized to solicit bids for the erection of such buildings and recommend the adoption of the plans lans by Q G D geo F costerisan Coate 3 J J huddart and Mo monheim nhim bird SCHOOL SUPPLIES the following rc recommendations commendations from the committee on school work were adopted adopt eo we the committee on school work recommend that a purchase of school maps be made so that each school may have one complete set this will necessitate the purchase of seven full sets and twenty single maps at a total cost of net 2 we recommend that the superintendent be authorized to have painted on the blackboard in pr primary amary i rooms staffs of gray lines for use in teaching penmanship the cost will not exceed 25 cents per linear yard and the total number of yards will probably not exceed 8 we recommend that a partition be constructed in the south upper room of the armstrong building in order to secure a recitation room the arrangement will permit of our relieving a greatly overcrowded primary room and at the same time grant the principal needed apartments for supervising his school an additional teacher is contemplated in this recommendation 4 we recommend that the committee on buildings secure if possible an additional room for use of the primary department part ment in the second school this will make it possible to use the smaller room in the second for relief of the larger which is greatly overcrowded this plan also contemplates the employment of an additional teacher 5 we recommend that the lease for the basement of the lutheran church be cancelled upon the payment of the rent in full to january 1 and that the department occupying that building be transferred to the womans comans industrial home building 6 we recommend the pure purchase awe of books for the high school as selected by the principal and teachers the cost of these books is about and a balance of about 20 of the amount appropriated ted by the board for such purpose will be left for future needs 7 we recommend the adoption for use in the fourth and higher grades as supplementary tary books on penmanship exercise books A and B of Apple tons standard system of penmanship PLANS ADOPTED the committee on sites and buildings reported the following we recommend the adoption of the four plans of architects george S george F costerisan J T J huddart monheim bird fc Proud foo the object of the committee in recommending the adoption of the four plans is to encourage different styles of architecture and to promote competition both as to construction and convenience between the architects themselves we are advised by these architects that the cost of these eight roomed buildings will not exceed each fortio stories and bm basement ement but the committee suggest that they be authorized to solicit bids from reliable contractors that in the coast construction st of said buildings will be the best beat evidence of their cost and your com add to the plans a large hall as a third story we present for your favorable consideration and adoption the following plans without however recommending any special system of heating or sanitation suggested by the different architects reserving that for further consideration and all other plans be returned to the different architects presenting the same with the 1 hanks of the board for the energy and public spirit manifested by them thein we let the contract to the tenth ward building and lumber association for fence and coal house on the school ground for also recommend the execution of a new lease on whitney building original to the utah national bank to include the renting of the third room 70 per month for the three room sin the second precinct we rented a room for 20 till july I 1 from J hicks and we also becom recommend mend the officers to be authorized to execute lease we also recommend the form of deed we will present resent for your approval transfer of school property to this board appropriations the following appropriations were made Bay bould reiber on account 1000 oo 00 david james co plumbing 95 75 tremayne covey leveling fourteenth school grounds mcallister callister gibbs maps of school districts 16 00 utah title in urance trust co inter est eat 66 rand hand mcnally Ss co five ati at asses lasses 37 60 50 utah paint oil co repairing ant 8 70 grant bros broa co tor for surrey thomas winters moving desks 6 5 00 rock 8 springe r in a coal co coal 1 1025 26 L S ab White aeed cleaning carpet 6 46 times co print printing irig notices 1240 tribune job printing co printing sup plies 58 salt lak lab e transfer co drayage 7 85 walker W alker bros ft F evler ler do oo 00 supplies aupp ies 16 15 38 B E M husbands labor 2555 26 65 joseph T kingsbury services as examiner 48 00 0 S baxter services ar ap examiner 48 00 george W reed note of fifty first district 60 CO hartford couret advertising bonds 82 00 boston journal advertising bonds 69 00 neve child repairing and supplies lids 88 83 50 salt lake hardware company supplies 62 total 02 superintendents REPORT superintendent Millo millspaugh paugh submitted the following report of the public schools showing their condition at the close of first month of last year and at the close of the first mouth month this year total enrollment this year last ye tear ar for the month average number belonging 3 7 average daily atten attendance danee received by transfer lost am remaining at end of mouth i per percent bent of atten attendance attendant dan number cases tardiness 2 on 2 suspensions for irregular attendance j a ten danee 3 bust suspension bension for bad conduct 9 5 oases cases of corporal punishment 26 1 visits by members of board a visits by parents and citi zens 96 there have been 1751 pupils not at or tardy this year teachers have c mao visits to parents number of pupils per teacher thi this I 1 year ltv number of per teacher la last at ye year ar is it was moved and carried that tt salary of janitor job reynolds of t tl eighth schoolhouse be raised from to 85 35 per month it was moved and carried that jj J W va sanders be engaged as janitor of w school held in the african M V XH church also that francis edmunds wa employed as janitor of the tenth school oho S view vice W J harris resigned the following motion carried whereas the board of edu education catin rii ri I gards gard it as a menace to the moral wel rare fare of the school children entrusted care that any saloon be located in the binl s mediate neighborhood of any school building and that the city council be re x quested not to grant or renew any license to any saloon within twenty rods ot of a i schoolhouse school bouse this motion also carried that a night school be opened provided not less than thirty persons within a month signify their intention to attend not more than one school to be opened and not more than two teachers etti eft |
