Arizona republican., 1915-09-19
BOARD REPLIES
 ID INSPECTORS
School Trustees Agree to Make Changes In Central School Building That Will Make Structure Comparatively Safe This Year.

Cut off sewer connections to old toilets.
 Provide fire extinguishers in each recitation room.
 Three fire axes and one fire hook to be placed in the lower hall. i Close stairways to second floor.
 Remove oils to safe place.
 Keep oily waste in self-closing safety can.
 Cut off old electric wiring in en- i tire building.
 l Rubbish to be cleaned up and re- moved daily
 Janitor's store room to be cleaned i up and kept so.
 ] These in substance are the recom- mendations made by Fire Chief A. F. | Wright with. relation to the Central School building. They were made on | the heels of a report submitted to i City Manager Robert A. Craig by l City Building Inspector Herbert J. Mann, exclusive mention of which was made in The Republican yesterday morning. And immediately upon their receipt, meeting of the school board was held. Both reports were fully considered and a reply was drafted in which the board agreed to make the changes suggested.
 After pointing out that there are portions of the report of the building inspector which seem exaggerated. the school board says:
 The fire chief agrees with us that by using only the ground floor for school purposes, the personal hazard will be reduced to a minimum. We had already decided to abandon the 11ca of ha vision should be made elsewhere for the fifty children who now attend school in the upper rooms. We have decided to take care of them by fit ting up the basement of the Monroe building.
 The present use of the Central School building is against the prefer ences of the school board and the school superintendent. of course: but there is no other way out during the present school year-unless we should rent store rooms or other vacant quar- ters; which would be to send the children to quarters less safe than this building. Were we to abandon the use of the building therefore. as the building inspector recommends. we should be going from bad to worse
 
 having found that a sale of the Cen tral property was improbable we had decided to ask for a bond issue in the { sum of at least two hundred thousand ! dollars, wherewith to provide new ! buildings and grounds. But the war ! and the business depression came on. 7 Taxes were high. and the growth of i the town slowed up. We found that public sentiment seemed substantially unanimous against another bond issue at that time for school purposes. We thereupon decided that we should wait until this fall before ask ing for a bond issue hoping that by this time we could fairly forecast the city's needs during the following two years We shall ask for this bond issue within the next few weeks. If the bonds are voted. buildings will be and ready for use at the beginning of the school year next Sep the Central building will he finally abandoned at the close of he present year. It is well to keep in mind however, that further bond issues for school purposes have been made extremely difficult by the legis- ature in it's wisdom.
 Meanwhile, we can only hope there will be no fire in this or any other building. If the building in spector will take the trouble to exam me the other school buildings which were constructed prior to the incufn- 5ency of the present board, he will lind that they also are unsafe as to fire But we cant ask the people to Bankrupt themselves for new school buildings ResDectfullv.
 SIMS ELY.
 "W. c. TOLLESON,
 Trustees.
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