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Show J. B. Smith ! Elected School Board Pres. At the semi-annual school installation instal-lation board meeting which was held Monday afternoon at the school board offices, James B. Smith was elected president, Thomas A. Bar-ratt Bar-ratt vice president, and Joseph Wal-;ton, Wal-;ton, clerk, with Jarvis Aydelotte treasurer and A. V. Watkins attorney. attor-ney. These men will hold office for the next two years. Reports on several matters were given. Mrs. Mable Nelson, primary supervisor super-visor gave a very interesting report of her recent visit to the schools of the state of California. She first expressed her appreciation for the privilege granted her by the board of education, making this most profitable prof-itable trip possible. She had an opportunity op-portunity of visiting many large training schools in the state of Cal-' ifornia. Her impressions were convincing con-vincing to her that the schools of the Alpine district were moving in the right direction, that we were progressing, along with the better schools of the country, into the more modem methods of educational procedure. pro-cedure. Superintendent Gourley made a report for the committee relative to the rebuilding of the water system at Fairfield. He stated that he had found that approximately 2800 feet of pipe is necessary to rebuild this system and that it would possibly be to the best interests of all concerned con-cerned for the Fairfield community to incorporate either as a city or as a water company in order to protect pro-tect the interests of all. This will cost the community from $75 to $100; a blue print of the locality will cost approximately $5, and the pipe will cost from 47 to 50 cents a foot, according to the quality. The 47 cent pipe will be satisfactory for (such a system, and the matter may be accomplished through the medium me-dium of a government project. The outlay of the board would be approximately ap-proximately $1500 should they proceed pro-ceed on the basis of furnishing materials ma-terials and the local community providing pro-viding all the labor. At . this time the committee from Fairfield reported re-ported that, they had investigated and were willing to incorporate, preferably pre-ferably into a water company, and to make whatever provisions are necessary to assure the board of education that their interests would be fully cared for from time to time in the future. The following recommendations were also made by Superintendent G""rpi: That the board nay the amount of $78.25 assessed by the State School Board Association to the state legislature committee to employ counsel to assist in the legislative legis-lative program now under way. That the board investigate1 the best possibility for a central store room, whether to continue the base-' base-' ment in connection with the office or to purchase property directly across the street from the present office. That the board establish a custom of paying bills only after formal 1. cf the board of education. That the board accept a proposition proposi-tion frm the Utah Power and Light company to replace the old electric ranees with new uo-to-date1 equin-ment equin-ment at a cost to the board of $25 for each exchange, it being understood under-stood that the power company would maintain this equioment under this now agreement and replace same at least every five years. The board approved the foregoing rec-mmendatons of Sunerintendent Gourluy and indicated the desire tvnt thv adopt that recommendation recommenda-tion referring to the payment of bills for a period of two months in OTder to trv out this request of the superintendent. |
