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Show U Why're New School ;t Buildings Needed Items ol Structure and Main- 4 v tenance In the School Buildings v Of North Sanpote School District pr. l.Jinibort st.-Uos, rourdln this chapter, "Tlu-iv are ttmv major purposes" in presenting tlu paragraphs which follow: i-'i.-. "One purpose Is to liulleute items that may require- attention atten-tion atul that can bo Ineludeil v in the district's regular main- tenanee program In tho future. A siwnJ purpose is to put on "i record some of tho detailed evl- deuce that tho school buildings in this district are old and in-flexible in-flexible buildings, and that fu-ture fu-ture costs for repairs and main- tenatuv on any one or more of ;! , these buildings will bo inorvas-"s inorvas-"s ing costs. A third purpose to put in this record many items of building design and i structure that should be avoided b-if- in the design and construction .,.' of any buildings in this district '""'i In the future. :;5 "From these paragraph which follow, readers should not has-"r- ten to tho conclusion that 'everything 'every-thing is wrong with these buildings and nothing is right,' for such a conclusion would be -.? erroneous. It is only that b v. necessity these studies place . the emphasis upon items that 5 iv; must require attention. Elementary Buildings Structurally the elementary -i 3 buildings are made of brick or stone. The walls are thick apparently solid, with good foundations. In most Instances In-stances the roof structure is in good condition, with the pos- sible exception of the Moroni "" elementary school. The buildings build-ings without exception, have ... been built from forty to fifty ' years, and are of the traditional tradi-tional elementary school type prevailing at that time with four rooms on one floor, and a hallway running either one r:; ; or two ways through the mid-. mid-. die. If additional rooms were l-i :; required, one or two more stories were added, with the s rooms and halls following the .-t".. same pattern. !:r - Originally these buildings r.i.; v; were not constructed with the iz:r: idea that toilets, libraries, audi-r-i r. toriums, gymnasiums, lunch-v lunch-v l rooms, playrooms, teacher ... s rooms and administrative ' suites, and janitor closets were " necessary. Because of their r- original design, remodeling jo' -i 'i axe difficult. Consequently the acceptable elementary school program of today is in some instances impossible t' haw; and in other cases where it has been inaugurated, it is difficult to administer. ASH Toilet facilities are, in some instances, inadequate. At the Hamilton and Wales elementary elemen-tary schools they are too small; Spring City elementary school has no toilet facilities, neces-"lll neces-"lll sitating the students going to I the Junior high school building: A 1 1 in some buildins toilet fixtures J are obsolete and difficult to keep in repair; lighting conditions condi-tions in the toilet rooms are poor; and sanitary conditions are hard to maintain because of the type of construction a-the a-the material used. Natural and artificial lighting conditions are poor in nearly l every case. This is particularly J' ft noticeable on cloudy days. The K minimum accepted ratio of glass area to floor area is 1 to 6. At Wales this ratio is 1 to 7. All windows in the elemen-n elemen-n ta7 buildings, due partly to ' age and partly to deterioration tV through lack of paint, are draughty. This particularly becomes be-comes a problem in cold weather to regulate and control con-trol the heat in each one of these rooms. There are difficulties diffi-culties which arise every year (in some buildings more than ..niin others) with regards to the 111 J Plaster which has been placed U there some forty-odd years ago. The furnaces are old, and in some cases repair parts are impossible im-possible to get. If these elementary ele-mentary buildings are to be used for many more years, new furnaces and entirely new heating systems must be installed. in-stalled. Fire escapes at some buildings are inadequate. Reg-Jlar Reg-Jlar panic-bolt door fasteners '' ' iM.sUUed In each building where fire escapes are now constructed. Water and ice from the roofs should not be permitted to drain onto the fire -scapes. Fire escapes should not go past or directly above windows in the buildings which they serve. Stairways in every Instance except at Valr-vlew Valr-vlew are constructed of wood ather than of fireproof material. mater-ial. The electrical wiring is in poor condition and If buildings arc to continue to lx in use, 'he fires, fixtures, fuse plugs, and switch boxes should be chocked and repaired. Lunch rooms have been made out of classrooms In Spring City. Falrvlew, Moroni, and Fountain Green. These are quite satisfactory. At the Hamilton School they have no lunch room, lunch being served in the regular classrooms. To put these buildings In a s'ate of repair is an expensive undertaking, and at the host would cover a period of several years. To remodel these buildings build-ings to provide special facilities which are needed for auditoriums, auditor-iums, libraries, physical education, educa-tion, and many other things, is a still greater undertaking and must be made part of a longtime long-time building program. It is important to note that the Board o' education and the people of North Sanpete must decide in the very near future how many of these schools They will maintain. main-tain. Junior High Schools "The three school buildings In the North Sanpete School District Dis-trict that are designated Junior high school buildings are all small, one-story brick buildings whose design is such that a series of traditional classrooms enclose a gymnasium on two or three sides, with an inside corridor corri-dor running between the classrooms class-rooms and the gym. This is also the design of the Moroni high school building which houses grades seven to twelve. With the exception of the gyms these buildings never had any other specialized units such as libraries, librar-ies, auditoriums, science rooms, etc. built into them. The specialized spec-ialized units that exist are improvised im-provised ones." These buildings are all of brick construction, being erected since the time of the elementary schools, with Fairview and Fountain Foun-tain Gr?n being erected in 1916 and Spring City at approximately approxi-mately that time. The Fairview junior high school home economics department! depart-ment! is held in an old city Jail which adjoins the junior high school. It is inconvenient because be-cause it is necessary to either go through the gym to get to the home economics department or to go outside and around the building. There are no home economics departments in either Fountain Green or Spring City. The ratio of glass area to floor area is inadequate at the Fair-view Fair-view home economics kitchen, being one to eight in the cooking room and one to ten in the sewing sew-ing room. The acceptable ratio is about one to six. The showering facilities are also inadequate at the three junior jun-ior high schools. This is particularly par-ticularly true at the Fairview junior high school. The two units which serve as shower rooms at Fairview and Fountain Green also serve as dressing rooms, locker rooms, washrooms, and toilet rooms. All three schools are inadequate inade-quate so far as locker facilities and sufficient showers to accomodate accom-odate students are concerned. The music rooms at Fairview, Fountain Green and Spring City are simply regular classrooms converted to use as music rooms, but they have neither the arrangement, ar-rangement, acoustics, the storage stor-age space, nor the insulation against sound expected in proper pro-per music rooms. Appropriate science laboratories, labora-tories, counseling units, health units, and libraries are all absent ab-sent in these buildings. |