Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-12-14
OFFICIAL COUNCIL
PROCEEDINGS
REGULAR MEETING

The common council OF the city OF WauSau
met in regular session on the above date at
100 p. ~, Mayor Flatter presiding,
Roll Call-Present, Gaetzman, Crooks, Kim
gle, Borowitz, Ohm, Morisette, Smith Gear
hart, Gehring,- Raduechel, Dechsel Schulen-
burg Kell Luedtke, Prochnow, (15). Ab-
sent, Crooks, Sehofeld, Pregont ~. Total,
Is.
Supervisor Luedtke moved that the read
ing of the minutes be dispensed with and Super
visor Deichsel seconded the motion. Car
ried.
Petition for Light on DeKalb ST. and Sew
enth ST. Referred to committee on lighting.
Petition for resurfacing Division st. from
Fifth st. to Grand Ave- with concrete. Re-
ferred to committee on paving.
Petition in adopting ordinance regulating
and licensing the operation of taxi lines in this
city. Referred to committee on judiciary.
Communication of Palace Clothing Co., in
re rest room on Gallon st. and First Ave. Re-
ferred to committee Recreation.
Communication from banks Of city in re as
sessment made against them.
Alderman Ripgle moved that this matter be
referred to the committee finance and one
representative for each ward, appointed by the
mayor together with the city attorney Sup
pervisor Morisette seconded same. Carried.
The mayor appointed The supervisors to act
with the committee on Finance and city attor-
ney.
Communication from mayor and report of
consulting architect.
To the Common Council:
Lady and Gentlemen: / take this opportu-
INFORM
ing the problem Of relieving the congestion in
our high school and also to remedy conditions
in the vocational school in way satisfactory
from educational point OF view and being
more economical financially than the original
plans which has caused division in the opln-
ion of the council, and since Recommendations
made by the board have, without offering
plan of compromise, been ordered placed on
file by you, and, whereas, problems OF such
nature will not solve themselves, therefore
your mayor has taken the liberty Of consult
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of competent person of high standing in
such matters. This gentleman, accompanied
by the president of the council and the mayor,
has made a preliminary survey OF the ioea a
ton of nearly all of our schools, their archl-
lecture and possibilities of enlargements to
meet conditions at moderate cost:
I respectfully submit to you and also to the
board Of education copy of the report by Mr..
Childs and suggest that you get together with
the board, discuss with them in business
way the keynote by Mr.. Childs, which he
fdent that regular program giving immedi-
ate relief where the most needed for the well
fare of our school population benefting all Sec
tions of the CITY can be accomplished
EMIL PLATTER, Mayor.
Mayor Emil Platter, Wausau. Wis.
Honorable Sir: Confirming our converse,
ton of last Monday we are suggesting that
before proceeding with any special school build
ing project in your city, it would be wise TO
make a careful survey OF every school dis-
trict and building. In order to give every
other cities are carefully laying out build
ing program extending over period OF ten
to twenty years, apportioning their budget to
the various schools, giving immediate reilef
where it is most urgent. Ann Arbor in Michi-
gan and Oak Park, in Illinois, have such a
program, and you doubt would be inter-
ested in the, details of their problems; ~
In general, today, only freproof schools are
considered No easements are being built and
no additions to old buildings OF temporary
nature tolerated. What you buld build
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While there is quite a division OF opinion
among educators in regard to school programs
and building arrangements to suit such pro
grams, there has been great stride forward.
The public on the one hand, is demanding
that the money for school purposes be spent
in business-like manner, for buildings we'll
constructed with no waste space. The smaller
classes and added instruction in many sub
jects requires the school to concentrate, SINH
lar to big business enterprises.
To place your schools in order requires
today generous budget, coupled with the
strictest economy in spending 1t for structures
so planned as to secure the utmost disable
square foot area, well lighted and heated, and
built in fashion to require the least future
maintenance
A trip to one or more cities where ade-
qpate modern schools are being erected VIII
do more to convince you of the extent of the
work YOU have in hand, and will give you a
fair idea of modern school standards. 1t will
then be an easy matter to interest your city
in a definite program An exact idea OF costs,
tioOc nSHN
ventilating then be formed and decisions
made as to details best suited to your conditions
Should you, for any reason not wish to fol-
low out the original plan of your Central
school, you could, by the purchase of thirty or
sixty feet additional property to the
west, provide twelve additional class rooms:
housing from four hundred to four hundred
and eighty pupils. Included in this addition
would be additional shop space forty-ive by
eighty a gymnasium forty-fve by seventy.
equipped with stage, dressing rooms all well
1iuhf cd hv windows
enabling the to penetrate to every corner.
With economical planning, and using present
building to the utmost, this can be done for
approximately sixty-fve thousand dollars
Should you prefer an auditorium TO the adj
ditional shop space, this can be had for about
ten thousand dollars additional. The gymnasi
would provide total seating capacity of
eight hundred, including main floor and gal
lery. The main floor seats should be placed
runners so they can be slid under the
stage and the entire floor cleared within few
minutes for athletic work dancing
With this increased pupil capacity in the
Central school it will then be possible to abon
don the present Humboldt and Washington
buildings, at future date when conditions
warrant giving more play space for the Central.
providing ervenue by the sale of the WASH
ington, site, and saving two THOUSAND dollars
annually in the management and maintenance
of one building in place of three.
The above addition could be so planned that
as your city grows and your Central school
expands, the elementary and grade pupils
housed there can be transferred to a new
building in a more suitable quarter and the
twelve grade rooms thrown together, forming
six shops of proper size
A junior school would greatly relieve the
ovcrcrowded high school, a condition which
should be corrected at once as the basement
and attic quarters here neither safe nor
sanitary. BY removing the freshman class
of four hundred and thirty-fve pupils, the con-
gestion would be remedied to the benefit of all.
If it is not possible to project junior
school Of one thousand pupil capacity at once
i could be begun in units In Menomnee
Michigan and Waukegan, Illinois, the program
Of the junior and senior schools are closely
related. and while the buildings are separate
all shop or other expensive equipment is housed
between. and used in common Mantowoc
Wisconsin, in issuing bonds for its new high
school. has approached it's bonding limit within
five thousand dollars, and while you, doubt
would not care to within less than fifty
thousand dollars of your limit, we believe
conditions at your high school merit serious
consideration Of generous expenditure at
once
The Franklin school will be relieved by the
erection Of the junior high, provided il is built
on or near the present high school site The
Grant building is modern structure, and as
there are two rooms vacant now, will be ade-