amended, having received a majority of the votes, a quorum being present, the report was adopted. Commissioner WOOD appealed from the decision of the chair, on the ground that it required a majority of all the members of the Board to award a contract. The PRESIDENT pro tem. put the question: "Shall the decision of the Chair stand as the judgment of the Board?" and it was decided in the affirmative. IN THE BOARD. Commissioner WOOD presented a report from the Committee on Normal College, relative to the iron railing, &c., around the Normal College, as follows: To the Board of Education : The Committee on Normal College respectfully report; that on December 30, 1884, the Board appropriated the sum of $7,900, for altering the iron railing, granite coping, flagging, &c., around the Normal College buildings, but no part of said money was to be paid "until the Board has determined the nature and amount of work to be done." The Committee now reiterate the statements heretofore made that the work is necessary and should be done. A communication received from the Police Department, dated April 29th, of which the following is a copy, calls the attention of the Board to the dangerous condition of the flagging, &c.: POLICE DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, WM. WOOD, Esq.: } SIR-I would like to call your attention to the unsafe and dangerous condition of sidewalk, north side of Sixty-eighth street, and south side of Sixty-ninth street, between Lexington and Fourth avenue, east side between Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth streets. The flagging is sunk and uneven, and needs to be relaid; the curb stones are in some places sunk, and in other places six, seven and eight inches higher than the flagging on the sidewalk It needs repairing at once. Very respectfully, JOHN GUNNER, Captain Twenty-eighth Precinct. The Committee recommend that this Board determine that the whole of the work contained in the specifications, a copy of which is annexed, on which proposals were obtained, be done, and submit the following resolution for adoption : Resolved, That this Board hereby determines that the whole of the work contained in the specifications for altering the iron railing, granite coping, flagging, &c., around the Normal College buildings, proposals for which were received in 1884, and an appropriation of $7,900 made for the purpose on Dec. 30, 1884, shall be done under the direction of the Committee on Normal College, and the contract be awarded to John T. McDonald, he being the lowest bidder. Commissioner ScHWAB presented a report from the Committee on Warming and Ventilation, submitting a statement of the condition of the "Buidings Contingent Fund," as follows: To the Board of Education: The Committee on Warming and Ventilation, in compliance with section 53, subdivision 2, of the by-laws, respectfully submit herewith a statement in detail of the portion of the "Buildings Contingent Fund" under the control of the Committee, in cluding a statement of the expenditures allowed to May 1, Portion of Fund to be expended under direction of Committee.... $8,000 00 Ordered, That said report be entered in full in the minutes. Commissioner VERMILYE presented a report from the Finance Committee, to whom were referred the two reports of the Committee on By-Laws, Elections and Qualifications, recommending the payment of bills incurred by the Trustees of the Fifteenth Ward, for repairs to Grammar School building No. 47, in 1884, amount six dollars, and to Grammar School 54 building No. 25, in Seventeenth Ward, also incurred in 1884, amount eighteen 5 dollars; stating, that the Board has the financial ability to pay the amounts named from the incidental funds for 1884, of those Wards, as recommended. The report of the Committee on By-Laws, Elections and Qualifications, relative to the Fifteenth Ward bills, is on pages 230, 231 of the Journal, and that in relation to the bills of the Seventeenth Ward is on page 233 of the Journal. Commissioner VERMILYE presented a report from the Finance Committee, to whom was referred the report of the Committee on Buildings, relative to the bills for extra work done by Thomas Cockerill, under his contract for the erection of the addition to Grammar School building No. 33, in the Twentieth Ward, and submitting a resolution authorizing an appropriation of eight thousand two hundred and eighty-six dollars ($8,286.72), from the funds of 1884, for their payment; stating, that the Board has the financial ability to comply with the recommendation of that Committee, by making the appropriation from the special fund apportioned last year "For purchasing and procuring sites for and erecting new buildings, and for fitting up the same, *** and for additions, enlargements and improvements of present school buildings," the remainder of said fund being now thirty-seven thousand six hundred and eight dollars ($37,608.00). The report of the Committee on Buildings upon this matter is on page 203 of the Journal. MOTIONS AND RESOLUTIONS. Commissioner SCHMITT offered the following: Resolved, That the Committee on Normal College investigate and report to this Board the number of students attending the College at the opening of the present term, and the number attending during April, 1885, who were not actual residents of the City of New York within the meaning of the law, and how many of said students attended in September last the first year's course, and how many attended said course during April, 1885. Adopted. ADJOURNMENT. On motion of Commissioner WOOD The Board adjourned. LAWRENCE D. KIERNAN, Clerk. |