The Savannah morning news., 1900-06-30
MAY SUBMIT THEIR OWN PLAN.
BOARD OF Quotations PROPOSAL
no ACADEMY TRUSTEES.

The Trustees Building Committee
Having Failed TO Submit a Plan
Satisfactory to Them They Pro-
pose That They Be Allowed 10 Sub
init a Plan TO the Trustees With
the Hope That an Agreement May
he Reached in This Manner-A
Committee of Five Appointed to
Submit n Plan in the Event This
suggestion Is Agreed TO.
The Board of Education, at its special
adjourned meeting yesterday afternoon,
40 consider the report of its committee ap-
pointed some time ago, to confer with the
Building Committee of the Chatham Acad-
envy trustees. adopted a resolution recit-
.ng she facts of the situation, and re-
Questing the trustees to consider a plan
TO be selected and submitted to them by
abe Board of Education,
In effect, the resolution is a statement
that the trustees having failed to submit
a plan which was acceptable to the COM
xnittee of the Board OF Education, and re-
guessing the permission of the trustees
for the board 10 submit plan of its own
choosing, to be accepted or rejected by
zhem as they may see TT.
All the members of the board in the
city were present, namely, Col. George
A. Mercer, president, and Messrs. b. A.
Denmark, Lee Roy Myers, T. J. Charlton,
Henry Blum, J. II. Estll, Herman Myers
J. R. Saussy, =. A. Stovan and NJ. A
o'Byrne. The report of the Conference
Committee, which was read and laid over
at the previous meeting was taken up.
This report was published in Thursdays
Morning News. on motion of Mr.. Lee
Roy Myers the request of the Conference
Committee to be discharged was granted.
Hon. Herman Myers then offered the
following resolution, which was adopted:
Whereas. The Building Committee Of
the trustees of Chatham Academy have
been unable to procure and submit to the
Conference Committee of the Board of
Public Education a plan for a new gram
mar school building, which the Board of
Education. under its sense of duty TO
itself and 90 the public, has been able
TO accept.
And, whereas, The Board of Public
Education is able to secure a plan for
such building which will, in its deliberate
Judgment, fulfil all reasonable require
school system and the just demands of
the community, and which can be erected
within the combined resources of che trus-
tees and the Board of Education.
And, whereas, In view of the present
urgent needs of the public schools, which
are to occupy and use said new building
and pay large rental for the same and
whose convenience and wishes should
therefore, be largely consulted, and of the
raff
commodious modern school building,
worthy of the prominent site it is to oc-
cupy, should be erected by the trustees
Of Chatham Academy,
BE it, therefore, Resolved, by the Board
of Public Education, That the trustees of
Chatham Academy be, and they are here
by respectfully but earnestly urged to
now consider plan 90 be secured and
submitted by the Board of Public Educa-
ton. which plan. if not at first entirely
acceptable to the trustees in its totality,
can, after mutual conference and conces-
sion, be SO modified as 40 meet the rea-
sonaole wants and expectations of all
parties in interest.
On motion of Mr. StoveIl it was decided
that in the event of the trustees Of Chat
ham Academy agreeing 10 the proposition
made in the resolution that the president
of the board should appoint a committee
of FIVE. of which he should be chairman,
TO procure suitable plans for the new
academy building and to present the same
to the trus tees for their acceptance. In
pursuance of this resolution a committee
was appointed consisting of Col. Mercer
and Messrs. Lee Roy Myers. NJ A.
OByrne, T. ]. Charlton and Superintend-
ent Ashmore.
The Conference Committee having failed
to reach an agreement with the Building
Committee of the Trustees through their
Inability to accept of any of the plans
offered by the latter, the course adopted
by the board at its meeting yesterday is
evidently the only one left open by which
sn agreement may be hoped for.
The action of the Board of Education in
the matter was at once forwarded to the
chairman of the academy trustees. The
latter body is expected to have a meeting
at an early date for the purpose Of receiv-
ing the report of its Building Committee
at which meeting due considerati ton will
doubtless be given the request of the
Board of Education.