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1896-04 WWU Board of Trustees meeting minutes for April 1896WWU Board of Trustees meeting minutes for April 1896 Volume 01 - Page 029 1896-04-01 Board met at 2PM pursuant to- WWU Board of Trustees meeting minutes for April 1896 Volume 01 - Page 030 1896-04-01 call of the chairman, with all members, the clerk, and architect Skillings present. The minutes of the meetings of Feb 18, 19, and 29 and March 3rd were read approved. Mr. Skillings reported the discovery of a spring inside the basement, the water of which would be necessary to disperse of by means of a suitable drain. While the matter was under discussion the contractor entered and on agreement was made with him to lay the necessary drain pipe and connect it with the main sewer in the boiler-room, the work to be considered an extra and the sum of $30 allowed for it. The attention of the board was called to the fact that the specifications as adopted provided for pressed brick in the outer course of the rear wall of the basement of the main building, although Hills' sand brick were specified for the stones above Mr. Skillings stated that the cheaper brick might just as well be used in the basement as above it, and the contractor being present an agreement was entered into with him to substitute Hills' sand brick, or equal, for the pressed brick specified in the place mentioned and allow the board as a consideration for such change the sum of seventy-eight ($78) dolalrs. Mr. Skillings presented the fourth monthly estimate in favor of the contractor covering work done during the month of March, which estimate dat April 1st, and is as follows. Stone, 449 @ $2.70 = 1212.30. Brick 190 @ 10.50 = 1995.00. Iron $28.00. Cut stone $14.00. (?) $35.00. Asphalt hire $70.00. Extra stone in (?) 10 perch @$2.70 = $27.00. Cut stone $50.00. Total $3431.30. Signed Skillings Corner by Warren P. Skillings. Vouchers were ordered certified to the state auditor for the issuance of warrants in payment of bills allowed by the board as follows - WWU Board of Trustees meeting minutes for April 1896 Volume 01 - Page 031 1896-04-01 Voucher number 32 favor of O.H. Culver $103.00 for salary as clerk Jan 1 to April 1, $100 and incidential expenses $3.00. Voucher Number 33 favor of A. Lee, $72.00 eighteen days labor as superintendent during the month of March. Voucher number 34 favor of Skillings Corner, architects 2 1/2% commission on contractors 3rd 4 1/2 estimates, $110. Voucher number 35 favor of B. Davey, $2578.44, eighty percent of fourth month by estimate as above noted and $27.00 additional for extra stone-work, less $172.00 previously deducted, or ordered deducted, on account of excavation as per record of Dec 31, 1895. No further business being presented the board adjourned.Record approved May 1, 1896. O.H. Culver, clerk. Eli Eilkin, chairman. 1896-04-15 Board metpursuant to call of chairman at the contractors office on the Normal School grounds, with the chairman, Mr. Edens, the clerk, architect Skillings, the superintendent, contractor, foreman, and with contractors present, Mr. Higginson detained at his place of business. The chairman stated the object of the meeting to be to harmonize, if possible, the differences which he understood to have arisen between the contractor and superintendent over certain clauses in the specification relating to the stone and brick work ; and in order that the board might arrive at a clear understanding of these reported differences he had invited all the persons concerned to be present and had sent for the supervising architect, who drafted the specifications, to hear any statements that the contractor or subcontractors might desire to make, and give further instructions that he might deem necessary to facilitate the work. All the points in question were fully and freely discussed with the result that all apparent differences were amicably settled, and the superintendent was authorized to use his own best judgement- WWU Board of Trustees meeting minutes for April 1896 Volume 01 - Page 032 1896-04-15 as to the necessity of requiring the strictest possible compliance with the specifications in all instance explaining promptly to the board any questions of special importance, should any arise. No other business was presented the board adjourned. Record approved May 1, 1986. O.H. Culver, clerk. Eli Wilkin, chairman. ##