Show THE BOARD OF EDUCATION the city school board met in regular session last night vice president nelson in the chair the members present were young Bay bould alft A iff pratt newman pike duke baldwin and dooly application REFERRED the application of frank harry to be appointed janitor in the school situated in the district recently annexed to the city was referred to the committee on furniture and supplies supplier EQUITY IN IM INSURANCE close cannon asked that in the taking out of fire insurance policies on school buildings their company be not forgotten or ignored committee on sites rites and buildings FOR FOB LEGAL ADVICE williams van cott attorneys sent in a bill for for legal services rendered the board flum march idt 1st of the present year up to december committee on finance A CONTRACT AWARDED on motion of dooly the contract to construct water closets for the eleventh ward school for 1027 was wag awarded to ellerbeck Eller beok WARD WABD SITE in the matter of the bid for the seventeenth ward school site the committee on sites and buildings reported that the seventeenth ecclesiastical ward association had offered for the site referred to sod and recommended that the president and clerk of the board be authorized to execute a quitclaim deed to the said association laid on the table lable for one week HEAVY CLAIMS the committee on sites and bull buildings d submitted the following to the honorable board of education Gent gentlemen leinen your committee on sites and buildings beg to submit the following report on bills ot of R kletting architect hereto attached bill of december ath eleventh school bryant 3 per cent of for a complete lete set of drawings for a two story addition to eleventh school now complete and recommend that said amount be paid on condition that he receipt in full for services rendered on said building bill august nineteenth school washington for plans as per agreement 1000 1000 we recommend that 60 per cent of this amount e now paid 15 per cent when building is roofed and 25 per cent when building is accepted bill august twentieth school lowell S per cent of the cost of twentieth school building exclusive of heating and ventilating apparatus you will observe that this bill to is rendered exclusive of heating beating and ventilating apparatus in conversation with the architect he claimed that he is entitled to a percentage upon the cost of the heating and ventilating apparatus as well as the cost and conist construction ruction of the sewer lateral your committee recommend that he be not allowed the percentage claimed on the heating and ventilating apparatus abild an d sewer laterals literals late rals first lor for the reason that he be is not entitled to itt it and that thai such charge has been made by no other architect connected with the school buildings and second for the reason that no plans for the heating healing and ventilating and sewer connections made by him have been accepted they recommend that in lieu thereof he be now paid 75 per cent of the and 25 per cent when the building is completed competed and accepted provided that in consideration of such amounts he receipts in full to this board for services rendered on said building he also submits another bill for for plans furnished for the addition to the eleventh school and services rendered in the years 1891 and 1892 which plans were not used by this board inasmuch as an some ot of the members of this committee were not on the board at the time this bill is alleged to have been contracted they submit same without recommendation preferring that the merits of the claim should be decided by the entire board in thus submitting it your committee wish to call your attention to the fact that they have recommended m ended the payment in full of for plans furnished in lieu of those for which this amount is claimed your committee further recommend that in view ot of the annoyance of this controversy regarding architects compensation that for all future buil buildings dingi that contract contra c t be made and executed with architects that will preclude the presentation of these claims in presenting this report your committee would also call your attention to the fact that all architects that have made plans for this board have been obliged to revise remodel and resubmit them before they were finally accepted and in no case has any bill been presented they consider that the allowance of this amount would establish a precedent that in i n their judgment would be gunj unjust not ta to other architects and incur an outlay which your committee believes would be unjust adopted on a vote of 6 to 4 THE NEW DISTRICT the some same committee reported as follows with reference to tn the recently annexed sixty sixth school district diet riot Asb assessed Asbee essed sed valuation tor for 1892 0 M amount of tax levied 2222 82 the school population of the district Is the board of trustees reports outstanding warrants amounting to which they consider a liability of the board they allege that this amount is the aggregate of all the liabilities of the district yur Y ur committee is in informed that all of the said raid sixty sixth district is annexed to this city except about eighty acres in the southwest corner thereof your committee is of the opinion that the board is the successor in interest of the said sixty sixth district and is entitled to its assets and should after the said assets have been received pay its liabilities as heretofore stated they recommend that no payment be made on account of the said liabilities until the amount be received from the county comity collector we are also informed that the said eighty sores acres of the sixty sixth district was by the county court annexed to the twenty ninth district on december 6 5 1892 your committee recommends that the matter be referred to the atto attorney ruey of the board with instructions to demand in the name idame of the board of the county coll collector Actor the amount of said special tax and of the territorial urial com schools the amount due on account of i the he school population of the said district as per the last school census if such deman I 1 to is in compliance with law your committee cammi atee is of the opinion that if this board is legally bound tor for the liability of the district that should receive its assets adopted thu the a s me committee reported that there was an e of on school furniture in the same district on first school and a ad on second and third schools sad and that the poll cles be assigned to the board of education that the first schoolhouse can be rented for 10 per month with recommendation men dation that it be secured at the same rental for the balance of the year that school no 2 be discontinued sod and the insurance be to cover the furniture therein wherever it may be removed that the third school in th the lincoln eLincoln park subdivision be continued at a rental of 12 per mouth month for the building adopted Adopt edL IN A dilapidated CONDITION the same committee to whom was referred the communication of hyrum P folsom and others relative to in sufficient accommodations condition of buildings etc reported as follows follone fol lowe first we found the building in a very dilapidated condition with five large panes of alws out also that it would endanger the talling of the atila ney in said building to take down the partition as suggested in the communication referred to Second the building now in use is entirely unfit for school purposes and to is not worth the cost of improving it in any way we at tach plan of a two class room building with four cloak rooms to be constructed of wood in a substantial manner which your committee believe can be built for about 1500 and which can be moved at any time your committee commit teeg therefore recommends that they be authorized to report a suitable site for building such schoolhouse school house sod and to ad vertise for bids for the erection of such a building and report same to this board adopted TO AN EXHIBIT on recommendation of the committee on school work was appropriated to asleen in defraying expenses expense in making an exhibit at the worlds world Is fair millspaugh the committee on teachers reported that hat the charges of mr watt against superintendent millspaugh Mille paugh had been fully investigated and that the he unanimous opinion of the committee was to the effect that hat the he superintendent was entirely J justified asti fled in refusing to recommend mr watt and further that the superintendent auperin had not been influenced in his hia recommendations of teachers by the church connection of the applicants adopted appropriations the following appropriations were made after which the board adjourned for one week 81 81 building and manufacturing co fifth payment on lowell school building 00 J W telfe fifth payment on prank frank rn school building bu 1600 00 payment on jackson school building 40 r F M wright fourth payment on washington school bui building laing 80 wm lister first payment on bummer school building 2788 00 payment on wasatch school building 40 croxford oxford Or bros a bryan sixth payment on hamilton school building 1916 80 wm win carroll Oar roll architect of oquirrh school 50 per cent of amount of contract t too 00 heating and ventilating company 25 per cent of contract 30 JW telfer extra for extension flue franklin building chimneys and attic floor 97 21 stout drage hauling soil from wasatch to hamilton school 00 wm Lister extra for curbing foundation of summer bummer sch ol 01 to 10 Or oxford bros bryan extra for laying attic floor of hamilton school 70 8 L building company f for r rustic entrance to many twelfth bohomol bo hool ns oo 00 sierra nevada lumber company material for fence at bryant school 63 17 utah stove and hardware company repair repairing g all stoves in the schoot school buildings land and supplies 90 educational publishing company drawing books purchase 18 83 20 james spence company repairs at fourteenth school 79 35 J james ames spencer bateman company gas as fixtures icove room 8 32 ai J 9 0 watson freight prepaid and drayage on desks 9 16 tenth ward building association lumber 1 70 tribune publishing company advertising 15 00 herald publishing company advertising 2785 27 85 J B moreton clerk for telegrams stamps tam 0 etc 7 76 75 ife T U co pai painting aing dado and hall a at high school gas company gas as board rooms and high school 7 20 isaac huse buse rent for burlington school house election dec ath 1000 10 00 charles livingston rent for eleventh Ule ward church vestry from sept to oct 15 45 00 total |