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- WWU Board minutes 1902 February
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- 1902-02
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- WWU Board of Trustees minutes 1902 February.
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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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- 1902-02 WWU Board of Trustees meeting minutes for February 1902WWU Board of Trustees meeting minutes for February 1902 Volume 01 - Page 208 1902-02-06 The board met pursuant to call at the office of the chairman in the Bank of Whatcom; present trustees White and Edens, principal Mathes and the clerk
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1902-02 WWU Board of Trustees meeting minutes for February 1902WWU Board of Trustees meeting minutes for February 1902 Volume 01 - Page 208 1902-02-06 The board met pursuant to call at the office of t
Show more1902-02 WWU Board of Trustees meeting minutes for February 1902WWU Board of Trustees meeting minutes for February 1902 Volume 01 - Page 208 1902-02-06 The board met pursuant to call at the office of the chairman in the Bank of Whatcom; present trustees White and Edens, principal Mathes and the clerk. After listening to the report of the principal relative to his examination of chandeliers suitable for the center light in the new auditorium. It was carried that he be instructed to purchase chandelier No. 17,562 from the Northwest Fixture Co. of Seattle, privided that they would supply the same with the- WWU Board of Trustees meeting minutes for February 1902 Volume 01 - Page 209 1902-02-06 light bulbs for $250 delivered at Whatcom. In the matter of the puchase of a piano for the auditorium the board not believing the school to be able to purhase one (?) of the present appropriation for its maintenance and having received a number of oral offers to sell them on an extended payment plan, the clerk was instructed to request the persons having made the oral offers to reduce the same to writing in order that there be no confusion over them. The clerk reported having a received a communication from the manager of the B.B. Gas Co. stating that the service connection placed in the new annex without any authority from the board, had been put there for the reason that it was a necessity and that it became time to place it there at a moment when the board could not be notified and its consent obtained that the charge therefor was most reasonable. This explanation was satisfactory to the board and an order was made ratifying the action of the gas company. There upon the board adjourned. L.H. Darwin, clerk. J.P. White, chairman. 1902-02-10 The board assembled this date to consider the numerous bills before them for payment. Present Trustees Edens, White and Teck and- WWU Board of Trustees meeting minutes for February 1902 Volume 01 - Page 210 1902-02-10 the clerk. These vouchers were ordered certified to the state auditor that warrants might issue: Voucher No. 144 - favor Munro Blake and Haskell $5.35 sundry plumbing and Hdw supplies furnished and labor done for the school as per bills Jan 23-27-13th. Maintenance. Voucher No. 145 - favor L.H. Darwin $55.08 to expense account as clerk board trustees for period ending Feb. 10th as per attached vouchers numbered 1 to 8. Maintenance. Voucher No. 146 - favor E.R. Croft $18.65 for cartage done and freight charges paid during month Jan. 1902. Maintenance. As per attached bill. Voucher No. 147 - favor B.B. Gas Co. $55.20 to pulling in service connection between old building and new as per attached bill Sept 9th. Building annex. Voucher No. 148 - favor E.T. Mathes $28.35 to expense account as principal of the school for period ending Feb 10th as per attached vouchers numbered 1 to 11. Maintenance. Voucher No. 149 - favor B.B. Imp. Co. $46.40 for electric wiring done in the annex. Building annex fund. Voucher No. 150 - favor B.B. Furn Co. $100.00 for 68 shades for annex as per contract. Building annex. Voucher No. 151 favor Edson and Irish $5.75 of 2000 program studies. Library. Voucher No. 152 - favor E.L. Nicholson $22.05 to sundry Laboratory supplies furnished as- WWU Board of Trustees meeting minutes for February 1902 Volume 01 - Page 211 1902-02-10 per attached bill Jan 31. Science Equipment and supplies. Voucher No. 156 - favor D.C. Health and Co 996 for Text books furnished the school as per bills attached of Jan. 28-29. Library. Voucher No. 157 - Edgar D. Werner - 42 to text books furnished the school as per attached bill of Jan 22. Library. Voucher No. 158 - favor … 7.18 to text books furnished the school as per attached bill Jan 13th. Library. Voucher No. 159 - favor Henry Holt and Co. $51.68 to text books furnished the school as per attached bill of Jan 31st. Library. Voucher No. 160 - favor B.B. Johnson Publishing Co. $8.46 to text books furnished the school as per bill Jan 21st. Library. Voucher No 161 - favor American Book Co. $12.86 to text books furnished the school as per bill of Jan 26th. Library. Voucher No. 162 - favor Chapman Bros and Co. $286.8- Jan 9th, 24 tablet arm chairs @ $1.95 Nov. 1901-30th. 42 Caxlon adj. desks style B No. 1 @ $5.75. Finishing unfinished rooms in old building. Voucher No. 163 - favor Alex McLeod Whatcom, $9.50 to 19 hours labor at 50 cents per hour in hauling wood for the school as per attached bill Feb. 4. Maintenance. Voucher No. 164 - favor Morse Hdw. Co. $114.38 to sundry supplies furnished the school for the laboratory as per- WWU Board of Trustees meeting minutes for February 1902 Volume 01 - Page 212 1902-02-10 attached bill covering items purchased Dec. 4th, Jan 6th, 10th, 27th, 30th and 31st. Laboratory equipment. Voucher No. 165 - favor D.L. Patchin $22.50 to ten days labor washing windows @2.25. Building annex. Voucher No. 166 - favor Sunset Telephone and Telegraph Co. to rental line 15-8-1 for Feb as per attached bill. Maintenance. Voucher No. 167 - favor Likins and Co. to constructing side walk within Normal Campus from Cedar street side to a connection with the existing centerly situated walk as per contract. Improving Campus. Voucher No. 168 - favor L.H. Darwin expense account as clerk of trustees for period ending May 15th as per voucher 1 to 7. Maintenance. L.H. Darwin, clerk. 1902-02-18 The board of trustees assembled at the school building at one o'clock pusuant to call of the chairman who had announced that the contractor had informed him that he was now ready to turn the annex which had been building over to them. Present trustees White, Edens, Teck principal Mathes, clerk Darwin and architect Lee. The company under the direction of the architect made a careful examination of the annex and the architect explaining orally to them (?) everything had been done in- WWU Board of Trustees meeting minutes for February 1902 Volume 01 - Page 213 1902-02-18 accordance with the plans and specifications he was instructed by the board to submit them a written report on the same and to have it ready by 8PM of the seventienth day of Feb. 1902 to which day and hour the board adjourned. L.H. Darwin, clerk. L.P. White, chairman. 1902-02-20 (Adjourned from Feb 18th) The board assembled pursuant to the adjournment of Feb 18th, present chairman White, trustees Edens and Teck, and architect Lee. The final report of architect Lee respecting the construction and completion of the annex to the main building was read. It follows: … On motion of trustee Edens the report was accepted and adopted and contractor S.E. Booker was released from his bond obligations conditional that he submit a certified check for #300 as security for the completion of the building. The bill of Aprchitect Lee for $600 in final payment for his services as architect and superintendent of construction was- WWU Board of Trustees meeting minutes for February 1902 Volume 01 - Page 214 1902-02-20 ordered paid. The bill of David Patchin for $22.50 for ten days labor washing windows was ordered paid. The action of the clerk in awarding the contract for constructing a stretch of sidewalk from the Cedar and High street corner of the campus to a connection with the main walk leading down from the building was approved and their bond of Likins and Lenhardt in the sum of $200 with W.H. Giles and J.J. Bell as surities was approved. Trustee Edens on behalf of the board expressed its appreciation for the manner in which he had handled the construction of the annex. In turn Mr. Booker thanked the board for the courteous manner in which its members had treated him. The board ordered these vouchers which bear date of Feb 28th certified to the state auditor that warrants might issue. The clerk was ordered to proceed to Olympia prior to prescribing them and there check up with the auditor the balances in the several funds appropriated for the school. Voucher No. 153 - favor A. Lee $600 to balance on services as designing and superintending architect on the construction of the annex to the school building. Building annex fund. Voucher No. 154 - favor S.E. Booker $5000 to installing heating plant in the annex to school building as epr contract. Heating plumbing- WWU Board of Trustees meeting minutes for February 1902 Volume 01 - Page 215 1902-02-20 for annex fund. Voucher No. 155 favor S.E. Booker $3,769.68 in payment of the ten per cent withheld on estimates one, two, three, four, five, six and seven, of labor performed and materials usen in the construction of the annex. $3793.63. To extras allowed as follows: 1 plaster arch in main offic, $10.00 ceiling under stairway in basement $12: 1 shield over fireplace $2.50; 1 transom between toilet rooms $3; 1 door between library and office $12; 1 window in an inlet $6.50; changing transom in halls $7.84; changing lights and side lights $58.85. Two pedestals for stage $10; floors in girls bathroom $6; materials used in stage in society room $12.75; First total $3935.05; less two partitions omitted and 937 1/2 feet of black board omitted $440.75; second total $3,494.30. To final payment on contract, $275.38 final total $3768.68. Building annex fund. Board adjourned. L.H. Darwin, clerk. L.P. White, chairman ##
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