Great Falls weekly tribune., 1895-01-11
THE SCHOOL TRUSTEES MEET
Architect White Makes Report Show
ing the Amount of Work Done
on the High school.
d. he Board VIII Open Bids For the
New School BnndS on Feb
,Uary ~ ut " q. M.

The board of school trustees held d
meeting Saturday, being the first
meeting of the board since the recent
bond election. There were present Irus
tees Pomeroy, Holmes, Gockstetter
| Poole, E9rll and Emerton. The clerk OF
the board read the minutes of the last
| two meetings, which were lengthy, com
prising list of the names of those vot-
ing at the late election, which were made
part of the minutes, although 1T WAS
not thought necessary to read them
over. Principal Largent called the at
tention of the board to the Case of
two families who were enumerated in
district No. II, but desired to send their
children to school here. In one instance
the parents did not feel able to pay the
tuition fee fixed Oh for outside scholars.
The board Instructed the clerk TO cor
respond with the trustees Of district No.
II, and if they we're willing to pay over
the money apportioned to them for these
children, the principal was instructed to
receive them free, otherwise not.
Architect White submitted to the
board detailed statement showing how
much work had been done by the con.
tractors on the new high school building.
The report states the total number of
yards of excavation, the number of
perches of footings and rubble work, and
the Eumber of square feet of cut stone
completed up to date and is accompanied
by plan showing just where the work
is. He computes the total value of the
work done up today on the building by
Mckay Bros. at 5;lG,3G3.13 They have
been paid 5l3, 1886. After deducting 10
per cent on the total vaue of the wotll
done, as provided by the contract, to be
held TIL the completion of the contract,
1t appears by Architect Whites figures
that the board still has margin of
about 81 800 due the contractor. which
is not yet paid. The statement shows the
value Of the work done on the extra
contract. The report was referred 10
the building conmlttee.
On motion it was decided to transfer
Mrs Mitchell, now teaching in the old
south side school, to the B. d NJ. s.ddl-
Blodgett, at present teaching in Lewis
town. to take Mrs. Mitcheii's place in
the old south side school.
r,,c nr6o ornI 4bat Tho h,,iIlip,, oop,
mittee take steps to tix up vacant room
scnool children, at an expense of not
more than SO.
A large number of bills were reported
by the auditing committee favorably and
ordered paid.
The CLERK of the board made report
| showing the expenses of the board dur
ing the past four months, as follows:
September, 54,45994; October. S9,9l2.75;
81. Total 500, ,4o4 60. OF this sum Sl3,
purposes, and the remainder. 5l6,2G1.O9,
running the schools for the four months
teachers during that period amounted to
Cio,fo''oo anu Jdultols bdidlitS Cdulo W
| SSS5.5O more.
| The report of the clerk was supple
mented by statement by the county
| treasurer showing the state of the varl
Gus funds belonging to the school dis
tricts. The sinking fund mas uomInaiiy
$4,000 to its credit, although about half
of this is in the defunct Merchants Ma
tional bank. The building fund has
| s-pt To, t-, ,r,ll;t f,,r
after de1ucting the amount reserved for
interest. etc. shows SlO,lS1,9o available
for the support of the schools. and the
special fund. which has been used here
tofore to piece out the general fund
now has ii credit OF s. 4Gl 50
This gives total of SIT ,GJ2 ~
at present in sight to carr,
on the ordinpTy expenses OF the pubic
schools for the next year and does rot
present very cheering financial outloot
for the district.
The question Of advertising the 800, ,OUC
bond issue, authorized 1T the late eIec
ton for sale, was brought up by Trustee
Holmes and the matter was generally
discussed. It was finally determined tt
have the bonds dated March |. 1895, t,
advertise for bids for the same t. bt
opened February IS at 9 a. N. Each
bid was to be accompanied by checl
made payable to the president of tht
school board and certified by some banl
in Great Falls. The advertisement wal
ordered inserted in the two daily paper
in this city and the Weekly News a
once. There being no further business
brought before the board an adjourn
ment was had.