The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-10-16
INSURANCE ON
INSTITUTIONS
is TOO SMALL
Report to Board of Admins.
tratiOn Results in Order
Of Appraisal
REVAMPt PURCHASING

Appraisal of all state institutions
will be made by firm employed by the
state board Of administration, as a
result of the appraisal report of the
Lloyd-Thomas Appraisal Co., on the
state penitentiary and insane hospit-
al at jamestown, which, according
to board members showed them to
have been insured far below their
value. The appraisal of these in
stitutions was ordered because Of
lack of definite figures on the value
of these institutions.
The Lloyd-Thomas report gives
the replacement value of the state
penitentiary at $1,253, ,663.3O. The
boards August report showed that
insurance in force on the prison was
$319,100 on buildings and 100000
on twine fiber. The appraisals of the
insane hospital at jamestown gives
the value of the insti-
tuition at $2,805,83597. The boards
August 81 report showed insurance
of $642,025, since increased to ST.
141, 10000 through the state insur-
ance fund. Since the state insurance
fund is limited the amount of risks
it can assume, the state has been a
co-insurer on the two institutions to
such extent that it was assuming
burden of 33 IL to so percent Of the
value, which situation in case of
fire would cause serious loss to the
state.
REORGANIZING PURCHASING,
. The board is now letting contracts
for supplies for various institutions,
and it is announced that the entire
purchasing system has been re-
organized. A shortage of $4,000
was found to exist in the purchasing
department as conducted by the
former administrator of the board,
according to members of the Nestos
administration majority on the
board. This shortage is represented
chiefly in supplies and materials
which could not be accounted for,
and in less measure to depreciation
in gooos bought at higher prices and
not consumed, according to the re-
port of the examination of the de-
partment. Under the reorganization
system a. perpetual inventory is to
be maintained in the supply depart
ment, so that at the close of each
days business report may be OBJ
tained showing just what had gone
out during the day and the exact
amount of supplies on hands. The
is now under the direc-
tion Of M. E. Mcintyre.
Change Building Method
Requisitions will not be filled in
the future just as they are made by
the state institutions. Board mem
oers will keep a close touch on the
needs of the various state institutions
and endeavor to furnish the kind of
goods needed at the lowest prices for
which they can be obtained. Com
plants have been made by bidders
that the specifications were too in
1efinate as to the quality of goods to
oe furnished, and some bidders
further allege that articles were so
grouped in estimates so as to make
t difficult if not possible for various
obbing houses to bid. The former
purchasing agent grouped scores Of
articles which, as unit, could be
furnished by but a very few business
houses. Under the new system they
will be segregated so that the busi-
less houses which specialize in GER
ain lines may have opportunity to
I'D, according to members.
Report of Needs
Investigation has convinced board
members that lack of systematic
PLANNING of the future needs of insti-
utions has resulted in haphazard
which is wastcful in many
ways. The board is having made a
typographical survey at the Agricul-
ural College, University of North
Dakota, Insane Hospital at James,
own, Valley City Teachers College,
Deaf School at Devils Lake and
tuberculosis Sanitarium at Dunseith.
his survey will show not only the
utline of property used for institu-
ional purposes, but all buildings to-
ether with utilities, such as the
eating plant, sewage system and
onnections. The object Of this
aeth cd is to have a definite plan on
which extensions and additions may
e made.
Because Of the prevailing fad for