The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-03-03
Joint Meeting Recommends the
Placing Bond Issues Be-
lore People.
IMPROVEMENTS ARE ASKED
C0lOred Children Are Provided
ior in Plans, as Well as Indus
trial Training for all Country
Boys.

When the city council meets in reg
ular session Monday morning, March
Il, and when the county commission
crs meet next Tuesday morning III
! esular session, a committee will ap
| ar before the respective bodies with
Y resolution asking that a bond cleo
ton be called.
The city will be asked to call 6
bond election for $40,0D0, of which
$4,000 viii be for a new school tC
be located in the south end of town,
and $4,000 for additions and improve
ments Of the Risley school. The coun
ty will be asked to call bond cleo
tion for $4,000, of which $35,000 will
be for erection and equipment Of .
County Mechanical and Industrial
noys' School" Understandings to be
located in Brunswick, and $4,000 for
q second community school building
to meet the needs of children in the
northern part OF Glynn county.
The resolution in question was
adopted at the second joint meeting
held yesterday, of the mayor, the Cit!
council, the county commissioners
the board of education and the boarj
OF Trade. That meeting APPOINTED
ard Instructed the committed, whose
members are c. d. Ogg, chairman; N
II, Ballard A. V. Wood, George VI
Smith and J. T. Colson 81 .@
The resolution is worded: ~
BE it, and it is hereby resolved
by this, the joint meeting Of the
Board of Trade Of the city Of Bruins
wick, the Commissioners OF Roads
and Revenues of Glynn county, the
Mayor and Council Of the city Of
Brunswick, and the Board of Educa
tion of Glynn county as follows:
a. After Investigation, this joint
meeting finds that the public schools
of the city of Brunswick are now IN
all overcroWded condition, and, by
reason of the inadequacy Of the pres
ent-.school buildings, children of the
city of Brunswick are being deprived
OF the opportunity of attending school.
We believe that this condition as a
tpresent reality will become very acute
in the next few months. An increase
of / 900 white people in the city would
result in an increased school attend
ance of more than 200 pupils. BY rea-
son of the present overcrowded con
dition we find that it is necessary in
order to accommodate the pupils that
small children from various portions
of the city have to go over a mile
to attend school.
= ''We, therefore, recommend that 9
bond election be called by the city
authorities for an issue of 100000 in
bonds for the express purpose Of con
structing in the southern portion of
the city a grammar school building.
80 We find a deplorable situation
as to the facilities for the education
of the colored children in the commu-
nifty. AS a matter of fact. the board
of education has never spent any
money toward the construction of
buildings for colored children. The
present Risley school plant including
hl1iIdinp and land was dedicated IN
the board of education There are
approximately LOO colored children
in school in Brunswick, and of this
number, the public schools take care
OF only 450; and the facilities are 50
extremely inadequate that, in order to
accommodate this limited number the
board has to have double sessions at
this school.
1--WE, therefore, >recommend that
the city authorities call an election
flr the issuance of $4,000 bonds to be
devoted to the construction Of addi-
tional buildings at the present Ris-
ley school plant.
''3 While the city of Brunswick
and the county of Glynn have reason
to be proud of the present system of
public schools in this city and coun.
,4g in so far as the efficiency of the
work that is undertaken, yet we must
face the fact that the present sgs-