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- wwu:33323
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- WWU Board minutes October 1895
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- 1895-10
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- WWU Board of Trustees minutes October 1895.
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- Board of Trustees of WWU Meeting Minutes
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- Western Washington University Board of Trustees Records
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- 1895-10 WWU Board of Trustees meeting minutes for October 1895 Volume 01 - Page 013 [transcript needed] WWU Board of Trustees meeting minutes for October 1895 Volume 01 - Page 014 [transcript needed] WWU Board of Trustees meeting minutes for October 1895 Volume 01 - Page 015 [transcript needed] ##
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1895-10 WWU Board of Trustees meeting minutes for October 1895 Volume 01 - Page 012 Meetings of Oct. 12 to 18 Inclusive Oct. 12, 1895 - Board met pursuant to call of the Chairman at 10:30 AM, all memb
Show more1895-10 WWU Board of Trustees meeting minutes for October 1895 Volume 01 - Page 012 Meetings of Oct. 12 to 18 Inclusive Oct. 12, 1895 - Board met pursuant to call of the Chairman at 10:30 AM, all members and the clerk present. The minutes of the meeting of Sept. 11 were read and approved. The following bills were presented and allowed on motion of Mr. Edens and ordered certified to the State Auditor for payment: Voucher No. 10 - favor of O. H. Culver, clerk, $76.00, for compensation as clerk from July 23 to Oct. 1; express [?] [?] view of building, $.75cents; rubber stamp $25cents. WWU Board of Trustees meeting minutes for October 1895 Volume 01 - Page 013 Voucher No. 11 - favor of R. C. Higginson, $3.95; for expenses of trip to Seattle as per order of the board. A recess was then taken until the 2:30pm to await arrival of architect W.P. Skillings and M.J. Carkeek from Seattle. Reconvening at that hour with these gentlemen present, the board held an afternoon and evening session, examining and considering the completed plans, specifications, and details for the construction of the building. The following day being Sunday, no formal meeting was held, but Mr. Skillings and Mr. Carkeek, accompanied by Mr. Wilkins and Edens, visited the grounds and reviewed the proposed site for the building, returning to Seattle by the afternoon train. Oct. 14, 1895 - Monday at 10 am, another meeting was held with all members and the clerk present. Upon motion of Mr. Higginson, seconded by Mr. Edens, the plans, specifications, and details for the construction of the Normal School building, as shown by the blue prints and accompanying descriptive specifications, prepared by Skillings & Corner, architects, and presented and explained to the board Oct. 12, 1895, as already recorded, were accepted, subject to such alterations as the board may hereafter direct, and the said architects were engaged to supervise the construction of the building, their compensation for said plans, specifications, details, working plans, and supervision to be five (5) percent of the amount for which the contract for construction shall be [set?]. A "Notice to Contractors," prepared by the chairman and clerk, as directed by the board, and of which a copy is hereto attached and made a part of the record, was adopted and the clerk was directed to have the same published three times in the Seattle Daily Post-Intelligencer, Daily Spokesman-Review, at Spokane, and the Tri-Weekly Blade, at New Whatcom. The clerk was also directed to have 25 copies of a blank form of bidders' bond and 25 copies of a form of bid printed at the office of Edson and Irish, according to the forms furnished by the board, the cost of said printing to be $5.50. No further business was transacted at this session. WWU Board of Trustees meeting minutes for October 1895 Volume 01 - Page 014 Oct. 15, 1895 - The board reconvened at 4:30 PM Tuesday with all members and the clerk present. The chairman read a letter from W.P. Skillings, architect, in relation to plans, and requesting that the firm of Skillings and Corner be allowed two hundred dollars ($200) on account. On motion of Mr. Higginson, the plans of Skillings and Corner for the Normal School building having been fully accepted as shown by the record, the request was granted and the chairman and clerk were directed to certify the necessary voucher to the State Auditor upon attaining the required signatures of the payees. Upon motion of Mr. Higginson it was ordered that Mr. A. Lee, of New Whatcom, be employed as building superintendent on the part of the trustees during the period of construction, if the board and Mr. Lee can agree upon the question of compensation. Adjourned. Oct. 18, 1895 - The board, with all members and the clerk present, met at the grounds at 3:30pm, with Engineer A. R. Campbell, and made a careful examination of the proposed site for the building. Adjourning then to the usual meeting place Mr. Edens moved that the vote of Aug. 16 by which the building was located in conformity with the contour line, as recommended by E. O. Schwagerl, landscape engineer, be reconsidered. Mr. Higginson seconded the motion, which was carried, the chairman voting "No." Mr. Edens then moved that the building be located as follows: "Beginning at an elevation of 335 feet above the city datum, at a point 350 ft. N.E. and 250 ft. S.W. from the North Corner post of the tract, and running thence S.W. parallel with the line of High Street 85 feet; thence N.E. 150 feet parallel with the line of High Street, and thence S.W. 85 feet to the place of beginning." The motion was seconded by Mr. Higginson and on a vote being taken Mr. Higginson and Mr. Edens voted "Aye" and the chairman "No." The chairman was directed that the following record be made of his vote: - WWU Board of Trustees meeting minutes for October 1895 Volume 01 - Page 015 [Oct. 18, 1895, continued from Vol. 01 - page 014] - "The chair votes "No" for the reason that the location of the building as shown by the record of Aug. 16 was made upon the report of an expert landscape engineer and at an expense to the state of $50, and the chair can see no reason why that location should be superseded by a location not based on the opinion of experts in that line of work, and, in the opinion of the chair, to the detriment of the interests of the state." Mr. Edens stated that he had originally voted to locate the building as recommended by Mr. Schwagerl solely in deference to that gentleman's judgment, but as much opposition to the location as [many?] had since developed that he felt it to be his duty to bring the matter again before the board and vote for the change, especially as it was strongly advised by the architect Mr. Skillings, and by Mr. Carkeek. Mr. Higginson stated that the change was in accordance with his views as indicated by his vote against the original location, and added that he had been informed by Mr. Skillings that he would upon his return to Seattle formally advise the change in a letter to the board. Upon motion of Mr. Edens A. R. Campbell was employed to mark by property stakes the precise location of the building as shown by the above record. The following buills were read and approved and ordered certified to the State Auditor for payment: - Voucher No. 12 - favor of Skillings and Corner, $200.00, first partial payment for plans and specifications. Voucher No. 13 - favor of Edson and Irish, $5.50, printing blank forms for bids and bidders' bonds. Voucher No. 14 - favor of O. H. Culver, clerk, $7.00 - sundry expenses for typewriting, telephoning, postage, and mounting plans. No further business bing presented the board adjourned. Record of meetings from Oct. 12 to Oct. 18, inclusive, approved at the close of the meeting of Nov. 7, 1895. O. H. Culver, Eli Wilkins, Clerk Chairman ##
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