Arizona republican., 1913-06-12
WITHIN NEXT
 TWENTY DAYS
So That Electors Can Say Whether Central School Block Be Sold to the City and County or Leased for a Term of Years

a Term of Years
 After three hours of earnest debate by the mass meeting of the taXpaE- CTS of school district number one. held in the upper room of the city hall last evening to further consider the civic center idea, the resolution of H. B. Wilkinson, which was tabled at the previous meeting. while not taken from the table, was passed substantially as he proposed it at that time, and the matter of the sale to the county or the lease of the central school block. will be put up to the people of the district at q special election to be held within the next twenty days, if the school trustees follow the unanimous re- quest Of the meeting.
 When the meeting met it was for the purpose of receiving the report from a special committee of five, ap- pointed by Chairman Dwight E. Heard shortly after the adjournment of the meeting one week ago, and naturally when the meeting was call ed to order last evening this report was the first thing brought before the meeting
 H B. Wilkinson. who had been ap- pointed chairman of the committee read the report as follows.
 To the Taxpayers of Phoenix and
 Maricopa County. ill Mass Meet
 ing Assembled:
 Your committee. appointed at meeting of taxpayers held on June 4. 1913, at the city hall in Phoenix, Ari- zona. under the following motion:
 That a committee of five be ap- pointed by the chairman to investi- gate other sites: also a plan of leas- ing the school property, and report q definite plan to mass meeting to be held Wednesday, June II, 1913, presents the following report:
 Mr. Frank D. Lane, a member of the committee. has investigated the values of surrounding properties and will present such facts as he has been able to obtain in regard to values of property available for a civic center site other than the Central school property.
 The committee has canVassed plans of leasing of the school property and are unable to suggest any feasible plae of leasing said property except through the school board, should the leasing of the school house property be determined upon.
 Ill IIiS COnItCAIbII q ljOIOuSAiiy liable citizen of Phoenix stated to your committee that he was ready and willing to take a 99-year lease of the whole of the Central school block, paying S20 per year for such lease. with a reValuation after fifteen years, and revaluation every ten years thereafter, and that he would put up a bond to secure the payment of 5000, ten per cent of one years rent.
 Your committee has been creditably advised that if the school property is leased it will be subject to taxa tion under the present state law.
 Your committee being appointed for the purpose of presenting to the tax pavers in mass meeting assembled such information as could be obtain ed in regard to sites and the leasing of the school property. has confined it's Iabors to these subjects and hence does not attempt to make any re- commendation to the taxpayers.
 Respectfully submitted.
 H B. WILKINSON. J. C. ADAMS L. b. DAALERON. NJ. GOLDBERG. F. D. LANE. Phoenix, Arizona, June II, 1913. MT. Dwight B Heard, Chairman, Phoenix, Arizona
 My Dear Sir:-ConcerninG the available sites for the civic center, We are pleased to advise you that the block north of the pOstoffice and the Water Users Temple can be purchas- ed for approximately $130.000. This would be 300 feet square, but would have no street on the north side of it. At least thirty three feet of this should become a part of Van Buren ! street In order to get street on the north side of this block, it would , be necessary to buy an additional hundred feet which would cost ap- proximately $5TOO0, making total of $176,0O0.
 1 The block west of this, Hatch ad- dition can be had for approximately s1O5 .OOO. This would consist of 37'X 300 feet. which would allow for a street on the north side of the prop ertY.
 l The block south of the Commercial hotel could probably be purchased for $175,OOo.
 Block T. Phoenix, being the block | between Washington and Jefferson streets and Sixth and Seventh avenues (Continued on Page Seven)