The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-08-11
SCHOOL BOARD RECEIVES BAD
NEWS
Finds Way to Adjust Matters
Work Progressing On the New
Building and Will BE Rushed To
Completion.

The school board held special
meeting Monday evsning to go over
lot of details of construction on
the new High school, and some re-
pairs on the Central building. They
dealt mostly with blue prints, and
the contractors were there to explain
what had been done and what difficult
| ties had been encountered in adapting
the plans for the heating plant to the
plans for the building, they having
been drawn by different men who had
no chance to confer about chinnneys
and drafts, girders, eye-beams and
lot of other things that have to be
harmonized when materials are put
in place.
Must Hold Another Election
A painful announcement was made
that the last bond election had been
found illegal by the attorneys of the
bonding company at Denver. Before
advancing the money on the bonds
they go over the abstract of election
and consider everything from the
Lewis & Clarke expedition down to
the present time to see II there Is
any broken link in the jurisdiction
of the board in creating the bonds.
In this instance they found 1t in
most unexpected place. All the
details of the law had been followed
down through the hundred and one
steps as required by the statute as
it read while the board was doing the
work, but unknown to them the last
10 c1o f,yr ho1 70 ant lattnrE
in one certain sentence and put in
three. Where it said that ten days
notice of such bond election shall be
given by posting or publishing, they
took out the word cor" and inserted
land" and the Denver men canvassed
Everything up to the minute and
found that "and' was in effect when
we held our bond election, and had
been for some thirty or forty hours.
That fact broke the link, nullified the
work of the board, and the voters
who had gone to the polls and voted
Bond yes" and that is why the
$4,000 is still in New York instead
of in Blackfoot.
The members of the school board
felt very much disturbed. They pic
ltured our new High school building
completed to the rafters and no
I money to put on the shingles or the
plastering or pay for doors, windows
and furniture. Somebody remarked
that if the new laws enacted by the
Legislature had been published as pro-
vided by law instead of having the
appropriation bill vetoed by the gov
ernor to save paying $4,000 to the
newspapers of the state, this dilemma
would not have existed.
Will Appeal to the People
| After canvassing the situation they
decided to start in anew and hold an
other bond election and ask the peo-
ple to stand by them and again vest
them with authority to sell bonds, IL
being understood that the bonding
company will make the purchase ac-
cording to the negotiations already
; completed, and ask only that the form
be gone through again to make the
bonds valid. 1t need not delay the
construction work on the building
|but only delay the delivering OF the
money.
The board will hold regular meet
ling next Monday evening, at which
, time the order will be made to hole
bond election at the date of thu
regular school election, on Tuesday
the 5th day of September. 1t goe
without saying that the people viii
vote Bond Yes," and speed the da'
when the High school can be opene'
for use and relieve the congested con
; dition at the other buildings tha
must be suffered for several week
. during the first of the term.
: Prof. Vincent was at the meeting a
! he always Is, considering every deta1
] of construction and repair of schoo
) property and learning just how eac
4 fiue and ventilator is placed and hoy
B lit ought to do it's work.