Los Angeles herald., 1890-07-08
nd on the roll being called voted mega

lively.
Major Frew, of the committee on
printing, recommended the acceptance
OF the bids of the Evening Express,
Times-Mirror Company, Merrill & Cook,
R. Y. Mcbride, for certain printing ad-
vertised for. Mr.. Whaling was opposed to
the acceptance of the bid of Merrill &
Cook on the ground that the bidders
were not printers. Mr.. Woodbury. ex-
planned that the bid was put in their
name for some one else, and the report
was adopted over Mr.. Whaling's mega
tive vote.
Mr.. Mcintosh, of the building COM
mittee, submitted the following report,
which was adopted.
Recommend that all bids for the
school building on the corner of Magda-
lena and Bloom streets be rejected.
Adopted.
Recommended that the bid of Rom
mel Bros. for the removal of the build
ing on Sixteenth street to Meade and
Dalton streets, at $3,67S, be accepted.
Adopted.
Recommended that the bid of G.. J.
Williams for the building Of the four
room school on Bloom street be accepted
at $S,567, according to the plans of Hugh
Todd. Adopted.
Recommend the acceptance of the
bid of Sherwood & Johnson for the addi-
tion of four rooms to the Amelia-street
school at 1892. Adopted.
Recommended that the bid of the
lowest bidder for the raising and adding
of four rooms to the Thirtieth-street
school, less 81 $3.50 for the closets, be ac-
cepted. On motion of Mr.. Ellis, that of
j. @. Kubach was accepted at $9,281, as
the lowest bona-fde bid.
Recommend the acceptance of the bid
of N. w. Harmon for the erection of the
four-room school at Seventh and Lemon
streets at SO, 443. Adopted.
Recommend that the bid of Phelps for
the erection of two-room building at
Temple and Casco streets at $4,77O be
accepted. Adopted.
Recommend that the contractors be re-
quired to pay penalty of $50 per day
for each day after the expiration Of their
contracts.
After considerable discussion the rec
ommendation was adopted by vote of
five to three. This raised vigorous
objection upon the part of several of the
contractors, and J. G. Kubach announced
that he would not sign his contract un-
less the penalty was reduced. On mo-
ton of Mr.. Cox the matter was re-
considered after the discussion and the
contractors having agreed to stand by
the penalty if set at $25 per day, that
amount was agreed upon, Mr.. Mcintosh
being the only dissenter.
On motion of Mr.. Cox the checks of
the unsuccessful bidders were ordered
returned when the contracts were signed
by the successful bidders.
The building committee was author
lied to approve the bonds Of the con-
tractors, as to their sufficiency.
On motion of Mr.. Ellis the building
committee was authorized to attend to
the removal of the present Seventh
street school building to make room for
the new one.
The recommendation of the building
committee that all the bids for the Rail
road-street school lot building be re-
jected was adopted.
The chief janitor's annual report was
referred to the building committee for
investigation before being read to the
board.
At this juncture a recess of five min
utes was taken for the purpose of exam
lining number of samples of physi-
illogical studies
The finance committee made the fol-
lowing estimate of the school expendi-
lures for the coming year: