Show T THE HE BOARD OF EDUCATION the board of education met in regular session thursday night in the at absence sence of president baskin vice president nelson occupied the chair the members in attendance beret pike pratt New newman marp young duke doey doely baldwin ray bould and alff after the minutes of the previous meeting had been read and approved business was transacted as am follo follows wt SITE BITE PROPOS 11 IONS de witt blowe offered to sell rods on th the corner of eighth south and third east streets for corn com mitte on sites and buildings J W hamm offered IWO on third south street near fourth east for and on 00 the corner ot of fourth fast east and fifth south street facing south and west for committee on sites ELk DISTRICT BUILDING the committee on sites and reported that they had opened the bids for the erection of a four stor story y school building in the eleventh district the lowest bidder was A rief his bis bid being and the highest bidder T K lloyd whose bid was the commit committee toe in its report averred that abat the former according to allegations had been connected with the construe tion of a couple of buildings the arec tion of which could bardl hardly y be considered satisfactory the next lowest bid was that of W H jay for the latter offered bon bondsmen domen whom the committee considered good for at least which is the amount the boari board required the committee therefore recommended that the contract be awarded to mr jay mr alff a member of the committee brought in a minority report recommending om mending that the contract be awarded to mr rief A brief and unimportant discussion followed after which mr newman brought up the matter of whether or not the title of the lot in the eleventh district rests with the board it appears that the board of trustees of that district have not turned the title over to the board of education and an opinion of Attori attorney jey van cott showed a very uncertain certain ui tenure of title the question was laid over for one week THE whittemore WHITTE SITE BITE the committee on sites and buildings reported recommending the purchase of feet on seventh west street and between second southland cannon street for the sum of the committee also reported that they had bad considered a lot about the same size and just across the street offered by by ingersoll thompson for this lot is ia a swamp and the owners agree to fill it in in regard to the two lots iota the committee says the locations are equally desirable the difference being that your committee consider the whittemore lot more preferable because it does not require to be filled in while the lot offered at the lower price would require to be filled in several feet adopted it was decided to erect an eight room class building on the site NO POLITICAL MEETINGS can hereafter be held in the school houses bouses according to a conclusion arrived at by the board last night UNITED STATES MAPS the committee on school work reported arted that six maps of the united C states ates had been received from john T caine and the committee recommended that they be distributed among the six eighth grade soh schools adopted ONE IS ENOUGH the committee also reported that the night school 1 is becoming less largely attended and they recommend that the assistant teacher be dismissed as one ane teacher is now able to do all the work adopted the same committee reported that the first floor of the odd fellows temple on market street could be obtained for the use of the proposed school exhibit this hall to is a large and well lighted one and can be secured for one week for 25 there are now 60 in the hands of the D A M society but the may amount to something more and recommend that the board stand good for the same not to te exceed 25 over the 60 on hand adopted appropriations the following bills were allowed B BT F allen rent 85 03 tribune job printing company printing reports etc 61 51 00 tul lidge co glazing work 16 20 spencer bywater co repairing stoves 2170 21 70 J 0 murphy oo co rubber stamps 1050 10 60 fourteenth ward ecclesiastical association rent r 00 utah paint oil company glazing and painting 2675 26 75 eighth ward ecclesiastical corporation rent 60 50 oo 00 P F M hisaw bishop iura insurance uce of seventh ward 92 00 george E blair rent 85 00 isaac hunter rent 75 00 anna A bobbins clerical work 40 00 tribune publishing company advertising 40 william pinney services 60 00 twentieth ward ecclesiastical corporation rent J A aleiss betas rent 50 00 A W davis rent 10 00 total 65 MR PIKES MOTION trustee pike moved that the committee on sites bites and buildings prepare an inventory blank and require the janitors of each school to furnish a full report of all property under their care ou on bond endorsed by the principal and file it with w ith the clerk of the board at the end of the school chool year and that the clerk of the board be authorized to withhold the pay of any janitor until such time as the report is furnished adopted FROM THE SAME GENTLEMAN the same gentleman also m aved 9 v act that the committee on school work be requested to at once formulate an inventory to be furnished by the auperin of schools to the principal of all the schools to make a full report of all school property in each room by name and return to the clerk of the board at the end of the school year and that no teacher be paid the last months pay until such report as ab well as all other reports required by the law shall have been furnished carried adjourned for one week |