The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-24
COL. ULLMAN PRESENT.
BEFORE FINANCEBOARD
Urged Appropriation for School Site and Issuance
 of $1OO,O 900 Bonds.

Colonel Isaac M. Ullman appeared be- fore the board of finance yesterday in behalf of the request made by the board of education at the session a week ago for an increased appropriation for the purchase of a school site. to relieve the Wooster and Eaton districts. The state has given authority for the bonding of the city for $100,O0O for school build ings and sites and the board of finance has the power to decide whether or not such bonds shall be issued. The board of education representative, pr, Spang, stated that his board was under the impression that the board of finance was going to order the bonds and that the board could get the additional mon- ey for a site out of this bonding.
 Colonel Ullman presented the urgent need of a new school in the Wooster district stating that two basement rooms were now in use there which was an unwholesome state of affairs. He agreed on the general principle that the city should not be bonded for the build ing of schools as they were current ex- penses, but he stated that he considered this an extraordinary situation The city, he said, had been lax and had not kept up with the school population in crease some years ago and the city was COT secuently in a bad place now. He considered the proper action at the present time to be to "get out of the hole" as he expressed it, land then keep straight" Therefore he favored bonding in the present instance.
 Furthermore he explained that more schools would be required, at least one and perhaps two, out of direct taxation next year and so the city could scarce- ly catch up without bonding. He stat ed that schools were urgently needed in the Cedar and Washington districts all SO
 Colonel Ullman told the board of the high price of sites in the locality where the school was desired and asked the board to authorize the board of educa- ton to expend certain sum for the site in order that the board might be able to get the site desired.
 After Colonel Ullman had departed the bond issue was discussed for some time. The board was reluctant to de- eide upon bond issue at the meeting and ultimately got out of the difficult ty by voting authority to the board of education to purchase the site that seemed best to it without naming any sum, the board of finance to supply the sum paid out. Thus the matter of a bond issue was again laid over for later consideration. Comptroller Rowe told the board he would find way of get- tins the site money without authoriz- ing the bond issue. if necessary.
 The sum of $500 was transferred from the contingent fund to the park com- mission to complete a stable and barn erected there. $2,7OO being previously appropriated and the park commission requested the further appreciation
 l.. D. Behler. secretary of the super visors of engineers, appeared to tell the board that the examiners of engineers had on hand a number of models of engines required in examinations which could be obtained for the low price of $135 He urged their purchase by the city and the board went down and ex- amined the models. MT. Behler will present an inventory of the models at the next meeting when they will prob- ably be purchased,
 LAS the next regular meeting would fall on Memorial day afternoon the meeting was sent for next Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock