The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-02-01
CAME 70 No UNDERSTANDING.
The Council and the Board of
Education.
Failed to Agree On the School House
Estimate.
Stranded on the Rock OF Ward Lines
and Still st Sea ON the Matter of
Appointments.

The city council and the board OF ed
ucation are still as far apart as ever on
the school bond election proposition,
Notwithstanding meeting OF the two
bodies was held yesterday morning for
the purpose OF definitely deciding the
matter.
1t was the law that interviewed this
ime as much as anything, though there
is still difference in the ideas of the
two bodies.
The NEE ting was called at o'clock
and after little council business had
been done the bond matter came up for
consideration by the council.
Before any time had been spent in
useless discussion the city attorney was
cAllsd.in and asked for his opinion on
on this all-important subject
1t waa Mr.. Dnnn's opinion that the
proceedings would be irregular unless
she board Of education had careful esti-
mates and plans made for every new
building, and the council, as the legisla.
tive body of the city government, ap-
proved the plans and estimates. These
estimates should be made by q oompe-
tent architect Of recognized ability and
standing.
The stand which the city attorney
takes and which the council accepts is
that when the ordinance calling for the
city election is passed 1t must recite
the exact location of each proposed new
school building, and plans OF the build
ing with an estimate OF its cost.
Mr.. Dunn does not hold that the
buildings must be built exactly as
planned, nor cost exactly the amount
stated in the ordinance, but that the
people must know what they are vot-
ing for as nearly az possible.
1t was suggested by Councilman Muu-
son that the meeting could be turned
into Joint conference on the matter OF
locations and number of rooms par
celled out to each ward, and that if a
decision could be reached at the session
in each Csc it would expedite matters
eomew what.
Acting upon this suggestion the coun-
ell proceeded to take up the subject by
wards and to definitely locate the new
school houses and designate the number
of rooms, 80 that the board might have
something to go on in having plans pre-
pared.
But the very frat proposition brought
out difference of opinion. The council
announced new 12-room house on the
Griffin avenue site. The member of the
board OF education from the First ward,
Mr.. Kennedy. objected to a 12-room
house on Griffin avenue, on the ground
that 10 rooms are all that are needed,
and that there should oe a room addi-
ton to the Gates street school in his
ward.
Mr.. Kennedy spoke with some feeling
of the fact that the superintendent Of
rooms gave his ward eight new rooms
and the Third ward 10, when his ward
had more children to care for according
to the school census.
The discussion which this line OF
thought opened up made it apparent
that the two bodies would not come to
any conclusion in this way, and Mr..
Munson desired that his motion be
Withdrawn and the meeting brought to
close. An agreement was made that
the members OF both bodies should get
together shortly in a sociable way and
try and get the matter in auch shape
that the board could proceed with the
plans and estimates.
After the adjournment of the Joint
meeting yesterday the members of both
boards came together in an informal
way in the committee rooms, and it was
mutually agreed that the sum which
will be named in the ordinance of in
tention for the bond election ahall be
placed at 1906, 900.
Saturday night the school board will
meet to arrange for plans and estimates.