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BOARD ORDERSCHANCES AFTERNEW ULTIMATUMLength of Building Will Be Cutas Council Committee Limits Sum to $200,000Reduction of the length of the proposed new Vocational school to be built at Fourteenth and Clark streets in an effort to reduce the costs to within the $200,000^ appropriation voted by the city council was authorized by the Board of Vocational Education last night after members of the council committee on finance had delivered the ultimatum tliat present finances of the city required that the building be within the appropriation. 'The finance committee, through Chairman Frank Drumro, declared that approval would be withheld for all plans and contracts calling for expenditure in excess of the $200,000.The action of the Vocational board in -immediately instructing the architect to revise plans to meet the lowering of costs indicated the spirit of co-operation of the board with the council and the desire to avoid any controversythat might interfere with carrying out of thfe pfofect which the council itself is responsible for by its refusal to ‘sanction the use permanently of.the old Washington high school for a Vocational school, Members-of -the Vocational board and the council finance committee said today that-they would work together in an effort to secure results satisfactory to both council and board.tlAITGWill Not Cause Bio DelayReduction of the building length is not expected to materially delay receiving of %ew proposals-for the erection of the building, the board members declaring that the revisions could be completed within a short time. , Had new plans been required, the work wduld have required more than a month and caused further tedious delays, it Was declared.The meeting was declared to be a harmonious one with the only differences of opinion' existing as to the amounts to be expended and' the ultimatum that It would be im-. possible, to. approve anything costing more than the' appropriated sum which was accepted by the board.Sum Reduced to $226,000Figures .submitted ..by the boardjnmnanL.fihQ.TEgd ...that application ctf'alternates and the eliminationfhmiticsiiunt.eiMi•geticButh:gaUS'thiupdaPitshteiofwculidr•* a^'tirbposed $11,000 swimming pool had brought the figures down tb $226,000 for the complete project,-the sum including the tees ctf _the. architect.-f-No- equipment is planned to be purchased at this time, the board members*:declaring'that'spffbesiD~ dlcated on the plan- were shown to efcplain where it , was planned to place machinery, etc., as funds were available in the regular annual budget allowed the Vocational school.- Suaqested New Plan 'Mayor Martin Georgenson was in attendance at the meeting and suggested that new plans be prepared to keep the complete building costs tp between $150,000 and $165,000 and. leave an amount available for new equipment if it were needed. Securing of new plans was recommended by the mayor after it was shown that application of some of the more than 30 alternates provided would bring the general contract figures down to $146,000 instead of the original figures of $177,000 submitted by the Schuette Construction company of this city.Funds Soon Available Funds for the building program are expected to be available soon as the printed bonds, aggregating $450,000, were delivered to city officials tills . morning and now rwait the signatures of the mayor; city clerk and attorney general before being turned over to the First Securities company of this city and associate purchasers. The city retains $17,500 of the 4Va per cent bonds for its various pension funds.in*Tli-ansirdeve:atasg(atHmtoraledrarListCiM’ni I A HT TAtoM
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Manitowoc Herald News
Manitowoc, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Aug 12, 1931
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