The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-03-20
IN SCHOOL ELECTIONS
The Address by the Board to the
Salt Lake Public.
WHY MONEY is BADLY NEEDED
How and in What Manner the Bonds are to be
Paid-The Many Legal Questions
Involved.

The board of education met last evening
with Vice President Nelson in the chair.
The trustees present were Messrs. Young,
Newman, Armstrong, Pike, Snow, Goliath
and Piper.
Mr.. WILLIAMS on THE ELECTION.
The clerk read the following letter from
p. L. Williams in response to a communi-
cation from the committee on finance:
The Board of Education Of Salt Lake City:
GENTLEMEN-Feplying to your inquiry con-
veyed by letter CT Mr.. Moretsn Of March l6, /
have been unable tc give the requisite attention
TO your inquiries fully in detail, and my absence
flom the city tomorrow will necessarily post
pone such answer beyond your meeting
tomorrow. Briefly, my opinion is that the
election TO vote upon the issuance of bonds
is an election within the meaning of the
act of Congress creating the Utah commission,
and giving it full power to take charge of all
elections. I am conscious that taking all the
provisions of the law, territorial and national,
makes the matter somewhat obscure, but
think the course that is being pursued is most
satisfactory and in accordance with the proper
construction OF all the statutes upon the sub.
lect. shall, however, within a few days at
Tempt TO write you more fully. stating the vari-
GUS provisions upon the subject and informing
p. L. WILLIAMS.
JANIToR NO. u.
On motion of Mr.. Newman, William
Crouch was employed as janitor of the
Twelfth district.
MR.. KLETTING's CLAIM.
The committee on buildings recommended
that $500 be paid to r. Kletting in settle
ment of his claim. The report was adopted.
Messrs. Nelson, Piper and Newman voting
no.
MORE ROOM is NEEDED.
The committee on school work called at
tention to the fact that the Seventh school
was now over crowded, and recommended
that during the remainder of the school
year an assistant teacher be engaged for
that school. Colonel Nelson stated that he
was opposed to this report, because he
thought the pupils at the Seventh school
could be accommodated at the Fourteenth.
Superintendent Millspaugh said there
was at present an enrolment at the
Seventh school of nlnety-eight, and it was
increasing all the time, and the enrolment
IN the primary department of the Four
teenth school was up to the accommoda-
tons for pupils.
On motion OF Mr.. Snow, the report was
referred back to the committee on school
work with power to act.
DIED FOR WANT OF A SECOND.
Mr.. Snow moved that the committee on
sites be authorized to have a school census
taken by blocks, and that an appropriation
be made to cover the expense. The motion
died for want of second.
FROM THE COMMITTEE OF FINANCE.
Colonel Nelson, of the committee on
finance, then read the following report:
Gentlemen Of the Board of Education:
The board having decided to ask the people
to vote for the issue of $500 in bonds for The
procurement of school sites and the erection OF
school houses and this committee having been
delegated TO present to the poople
the reasons for the boards action as stated do
now submit the facts on which that REQUEST
was based
The city has total school population accord
Ing TO the census of July last of SSiS This
population is distributed among the several
school precincts by old school districts as fol
lows, and for convenience we have stated in the
same tables the seating capacity of the several
schools, the enrolment and the deficiency in &C
commodatlons in each, as compared with the
total school population. The seating Capacity
Is reckoned on the usual standard, Is square
feet floor space per pupil, and of course in it nc
rented buildings are counted. The schools are
numbered to correspond substantially with tn e
old districts or wards.
FIRST PRECINCT