The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-02
SCHOOL BOARD
 IN BIC FIGHT Colonel Uullman and Dr. Spang Resign from
 Committee in
 Disgust. FIGHT OVER SCHOOL PLANS
Board Throws Out Greene Street Bids Because Com mittee Changed the
 Plans Some,
JACKSON DISSoLVES A TIE
Colonel Ullman Says He Consid- CTS Himself Treated as a Messenger and Will
 No Longer Act.

NO Longer ACG'
 To a bitterly fought session of the
 board of education that lasted to the
 hour of midnight thunderbolt con-
 cluslon was added when Col Isaac M. Ullman and Dr. Henry spang, two of the three members of the new building committee announced as the conse- quence of the action of the board on the bids and plans for the new Greene street school that they resigned from the committee which they have been
 members of The battle started over the bids for the building of the school which were opened by the board at the meeting last evening and which was to ] be the main business of the session. The | lowest bids received for the complete l erection of the school reached the fig ure of about $92,000 and immediately the point was raised that this amount N exceeded the sum which the board had expected to pay for the school
 The entire membership of the board I was present when the matter came up with the exception of MT. Jackson. The board spent considerable time discuss ing the bids which had been submitted and MT Moran raised the point that conslderahl changes had been made in the plans on which the bids had been submitted and that which the board had adopted in August for the commit 2 tee to present for the bids. The com
 mittee on new school buildings explain
 ed the changes which they insisted
 were changes of detail made for the
 purpose of constructing a more perfect I school. MT. Moran raised the objection H that material changes had been made
 in the plans as given to the architects
 Brown and Won Beren to work up for Fthe bids from what the board had Hagreed on when 1t had adopted what Twas marked as plan six in the competi- HtiNe presentation of plans by architects ! for the school He claimed that the
 changes made brought the cost of the I building considerably above what had 9been the sum for which the architects Ihad estimated to build the school and $although the proposition was made that Icertain features which had been added 'by the committee should be dropped From the plans as presented so as to 1bring the cost down to the sum of $70,- 575O, which they had named as their sestlmate of the cost of a building with 'an assembly hall in the preliminary plan he held that the changes made in sthe plans were of such a nature that 3new bids should be asked for if the pre- ssent plans were rejected and that it .was not fair to the other architects un- sder the competitive system to allow the aone whose plans had been originally ac- Tcepted under condition that they should I be of a certain style to present chang led plans and then scale down his own Eplans so as to get them within the 3price which the board was willing to bay
 Here Col. Ullman took up the combat. He argued that the building was such
 an one as is needed in the district, that at the committee had added after consult Htation with MT. Beede and pr. Dia-
 mond large session room for the zeighth grade over the assembly hall, (which had not been in the original Splans and other details which brought .the figures up above those which the >architects had presented when they es- =timated the cost of the structure. He
 paid that the suggestions had been made by the committee which took en- Itire responsibility for the plans as they had directed the architects to work
 them out with the additions in them. 'Col Ullman further stated that he did Snot consider this an expensive building aas considering the number of rooms
 (which were included in it the cost per Hroom was not so great as that of the Hwy street school which was the last sbuilt.
 Eli Whitney was against paying so large sum for the school regardless
 of the other points at issue on the Hstand that the entire school with the |site ought not to go over the $1OO,OO0 which was expected for it from the bond issue. Mir Moran further claimed that tL4 oonmittee ought to have had plans for sbidding on without an assembly hall
 as well as with, according to the vote . of the board when the committee was Instructed to get bids. He raised the point that the cutting down of the
 present plans and sealing down the bids to meet the sum the board was willing to spend was not fair to the
 other contesting arguments Dr. Spang defended the action of the new school buildings committee and claimed that
 Moran was too technical in his objec~