The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-01-30
FAVOR A LARGE ADDITION
Suggestion Is Made That Eight Rooms
be Added to the Balm School and That
New Sixteen Room Building be Built
in South Part of the City,

The big problem of the immediate
financial demands of the schools of the
city was taken up at a joint meeting
of the finance committees Of the city
council and the board of education
held at the office of Mayor Dan O..
Head on Wednesday evening and
while no final determination was made
as to what will be recommended to the
two governing bodies the matter was
threshed out. from so many different
angles that at the conclusion of the
discussion a much better understand
ing ef the ideas Of the school board
men and Of the city officials was
brought about.
The suggestion that seemed to ap-
peal to both. parties was that the city
should provide a twenty year serial
bond issue ir the sum of $150,000 and
that from this amount of money the
members of the board of education
should provide for the building Of an
eight room addition to the Balm school
and for such building 90 the south
side of the city as could be secured
for the appropriation. The members
of the school board insisted that a
twenty room building was needed in
the south end of the city and a four
room addition to the Balm school, this
giving a total OF twenty four new
school rooms.
Members of tho council committee
suggested that the addition Of eight
rooms to the Balm and the building
of sixteen room building to the
south would offer better distribution
of the rooms. This suggestion met
with the favor Of the board members,
but even with an eight room addition
to the. Balm they suggested that it
would be economy to build twenty
room building on the south limits. At
the suggestion Of Mayor Head the
members of the school board will Sc
cure bids on the eight room addition
and for both sixteen and twenty
room building at the south and after
these bids have been received some
formal recommendations will be made
to the council. It is planned to secure
the completion of the addition to the
Balm school before tie opening of the
new school year in September and the
completion of the large new building
in April of next year.
It was declared at the meeting that
within a few years a building would
be demanded for the use of the indus
trial schools ald it was suggested that
the Deming school be set aside for
this purpose and when the new build
ing was completed this building could
be turned over for the uses of the in
dustrial board. The meeting showed
that there was decided opposition to
the building of twenty room school
building at the south limits of the
city. Mayor Head insisted that in
his opinion no school with less than
sixteen rooms should be built and
held that every grade school in the
city should contain the full eight
grades.
The possible abandonment of the
big central building as a high school
and its use as a grade school follow
ing the erection of a modern high
school building was discussed at some
length, but the members of the board
held that this matter could be laid
over five years and that schools to take
care of the young pupils were great
er need than new high school.
Alderman stsmm suggested the build.
ing of four eight room buildings in
different parts of the city, but the
school board men insisted that the
cost of four buildings would be large
ly in excess Of one large building and
that the cost OF up keep would be
greatly increased.
It is thought that with bond issue
of $l50,0o0 sufficient school room
space can Sc secured to take care of
the demands OF the city for the next
two or three years and that the
schools will be left in better condition
than they have seen in many wears.
1t is expected that the report on the
bids will be sent to the council at the
second meeting in Febr larry and that
action to provide for the issue of the
bonds will be taken shortly after that
time.