2764 Report of Committee on Proposed New High School Building, September 21, 1901

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What disposition to make of the High School during the con- struction, is not an easy problem. Several schemes have been considered. On the whole only one course seems at all practi- cable, and that is to move the present structure to the rear of the ti lot, place it upon a temporary wooden underpining made tight and warm for the winter, and let the school be continued in the building until the new one shall be ready for use. The school must necessarily be closed for a short time while the removal is being effected. It may be determined later what shall be the final use or disposition of the old building. As to the probable `{ cost of moving and setting it up, and the time required for the work, the committee will report orally at the town meeting. In conclusion, the committee recommends that the town pro- vide for the immediate construction of substantially the building described in this report, to this end appropriating the sum of $55,000, the money to be borrowed on the notes of the town, payable one each year during the period of ten years; and that to enable the placing of the new building in a suitable location upon the High School House lot, the present building be moved to the rear of the lot. For this latter purpose there should be a special appropriation of a few hundred dollars. In view of the fact that the last instalment of the Hancock School House Loan has now been paid so that the town is relieved of the $6,000 annual charge which has been upon it for several years, and in. view, also, of the fact that the first of a series of po,000 annual payments on account of the Water Loan will begin in 1906, the committee believes that instead of providing for payment of the new loan iIi ten equal instalments, it would be more prudent to make p' ovision for paying$io,000 in each of the years 1902, 1903, 1904, and 1905, thereby making the remaining six annual payments to be met concurrently with. the Water Loan payments only $2,5oo each. Respectfully submitted. i EDWIN A. BAYLEY, ROBERT P. CLAPP, HENRY W. LEWIS, It Committee. ROGER I. SHERMAN, H. A. C. WOODWARD, September 21, 1901. I2