Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-25
OPEN BIDS ON
MORE SCHOOLS
bers From City Delayed Let
tings-Quorunn Is Ex-
pected Tonight

Members of the building committee
of the city board of education will hold
a meeting at noon today to open bids
on six additions to school buildings and
on one new two-room building
The full board will hold it's regular
meeting tonight, and at that time it is
probable contracts for several buildings
on which bids already have been opened
will be awarded.
The buildings on which bids will be
opened at noon today are as follows;
Two-room building on Micheltoreno
street, near Sunset boulevard
Four-room annex to Second street
building. on Second near State.
Eight-room addition to Washington
street building, on Washington street
near Budlong avenue.
Four-room addition to the Fifty
fourth avenue building, on Fifty-fourth
avenue and Monte Vista street
Five-room addition to the Cornwell
street building, corner of Cornwell and
Sheridan streets.
Four-room annex to the Utah street
building, at Utah and Kearney streets.
Five-room addition to the Boyd street
building, on Boyd near San Pedro.
Members Were Absent
The award of contracts on four new
buildings has been held up for several
days, owing TO the absence from the
city of three members of the board. A
meeting of the board was called for la st
Thursday for the purpose of taking ac-
ton on these contracts, but only four
members were present. AS it requires
six of the seven members to be present
when subjects of this kind are to be
disposed of, the contracts were laid
over until tonight
1t is expected that Messrs. Scott and
Stephens will return in time to attend
the meeting tonight, which would make
up the number necessary for a quorum
The buildings for which contracts
are to be awarded are the Magnolia
avenue, Hobart boulevard, Logan
street and Main street schools.
Bids for these were opened several
days ago, the lowest on each being as
follows:
Lowest Bids
Magnolia avenue, Robert Byrle
$28, ,492; Hobart boulevard, j. B. Daw-
son. $21,3S7; Logan street, B. D. Kron-
nick, s25,S7S; Main street, Aleck Grant
$21, 800.
1t is possible also that contracts will
be awarded on the buildings for which
bids were opened last Friday These
buildings together with the lowest
bidders, were as follows:
Four-room annex to the Jefferson
street building, Olaf Johnson. $8244.
Eleven-room building at Euclid and
Stephenson avenues, Martin Madden
$2S.534.
Four-room annex to the Gates street
school, j, C. Blair e. Son. $7824
Four-room addition to the Twenty
ninth street building, B. d. Kronnick
$11, 900.
Four-room building on West Vernon
avenue, between Grand avenue and
Hope street, Olaf Johnson, 1874.
Eleven-room building at Fifty-sec.
ond street and Hoover avenue, E6
Arnaelsteen, $26. 200.
Six-room building on TwentY-fourtf
street, near Western avenue, Ed Arm,
aelsteen, $11 .6S5.
Nineteen school buildings will have
been provided for as soon as the con-
tracts now In the hands of the board
are awarded. Members say that work
on all of them will be pushed to com.
pletion as rapidly as possible, and they
are confident the present overcrowdec
condition OF the schools will be great,
ly relieved by September is. the date
for the opening of the fall term.
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