Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-06-03

BchoOi Buildings ........... 10000
For General Expenses (Repairing build
ings, School furniture, etc. ........ 10000
For New School Buildings. .......... 10000
L. A. GILBERT,
G. A. HAMILTON, Committe on Finance.
j. Ii MURPHY,
The report was adopted and the Commit
tee requested to submit the satne 10 the
Council.
The same Committee made the follow
ing report:
SAINT PAUL, Mimi, May 81, 1883.
To the Honorable Board of Education
of the City of St. Paul.
GENTLEMEN: Your Committee on
Finance to whom was re-
ferred the report of City Comptr oller
Roche, made to your honorable body at
the last regular meeting respectfully re-
port: that they have carefully considered
the same and find the following errors in
his detailed statement of the High School
Fund.
Mr.. Roche states that the contract price
for the basement was $4,000. We find by
reference to the minutes of the Board, that
the contract for the basement was awarded
to Breen & Young for the sum of $4,000.
We are aware that some changes were
made involving additional expense bat
such charges should be noted as cctrus.
Again, the contract price for inspection
and amount paid for same is placed at
| $6O3.
Mr.. Willard states that he has received
| for inspection of High School building
| 1852, for account steam and roof specifca-
| tions Sill, making total chargeable to
High School fund of 1913. TheI remain
| ing $50 was paid on account of the Gar
| field School and conseq dently should not
| be charged to the High School fund.
Then followed two items of real estate
| amounting to $4,000. TN regard to the first
| charge of $500, we find that the property
in question was bought and paid for before
| authorized, and was a part and parcel Of
the real estate owned by the Board, as
much as the lots on which the Adams
School building stood.
In regard to the second charge of $500,
| gentlemen of the Board will remember,
that property on Tenth street was sold for
the express purpose of providing for the
payment of this sum and it should not
therefore be charged against the 100000
| provided for building High School.
If these amounts ARE charged to the
High School fund, we submit that the
value OF the original Adam School lots
should also be chargedu up against it.
But your Committee are confident that
such was not the intention of the Board
but that these two amounts, as we'll as an
additional amount of $3.50 paid for lot
in the rear of the High School building, of
which Mr.. Roche has made no mention,
should have been charged to the general
building fund.
We therefore respectfully recommend
that the report of the Comptroller be re-
ferred back to him with d request that he
| correct the errors, and transfer the charges
tor real estate from the High School fund,
to the general property fund, where, in
the opinion of your Committee they prop
erly belong. Respectfully submitted,
L. A. GILBERT, o.-...o
= G4 E. n M5 Ht451T0H' on Finance.
The report was adopted and the Comp
troller's report was ordered sent back for
correction.
A communication from Inspector Gill
bert was read and received and ordered
| spread on the minutes.
To the Honorable Board of Education of
the City of st. Paul:
CENTENNIAL the last regular meeting
of your honorable body, a communication
was received from City Comptroller Roche,
which seems to require reply from me.
Mr.. Roche commences by saying that the
| Financial Committee of the Board we're
authorized to negotiate the $4,000 High
| School bonds, which is correct. He then
states that the committee exhausted all
| Iu nd
with bankers, brokers and others and could
get no bids, etc." This statement is incor-
rect. We had by no means exhausted all
endeavors, and Mr.. Roche knew at the time
1 called upon him to get his certificate
about the bonds, that had that morning
offered them to Kountze Bros, New York,
| at the same price paid by them for the
city bonds and that my inquiry of him
was to reply to their questions, pending
| their acceptance; and he also knew that /
had telegram from another responsible
firm asking lowest price for the bonds. Mr..
Roche says he ''then asked me to allow him
to offer the bonds to Kountze Bros. at
same price paid for city bonds and l con
| sented." Mr.. Roche's memory is certain
~ at fault here. l have no knowledge
whatever of such a question being asked
me and l am positively certain that did
not consent to such proposition, and the
fact that Mr.. Bailey, cashier OF the First
National bank, had, that morning, tele-
graphed the same offer to Kountze Bros. at
my request will materially tend to confirm
my statement. What Mr.. Roche says about
consulting with City Treasurer Refs and
then telegraphing par offer on his own
| responsibility, would have been all right,
if he had consulted the Finance Com
mittee instead of Mr.. Refs and telegraphed
on their responsibility instead of his own.
The Committee hoped and expected to
get as much for the school bonds as the
| city bonds sold for, and had waited for the
result of that sale, partly on Mr.. Roobe's
advice, and hut for his hasty action they
are confident Gas they previously reported
they would have realized more for the
bonds.
In concluding his report Mr.. Roche is
pleased to tell the Finance Committee