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RECOMMENDATION MADE BY JOINT COMMITTEE TO OPEN AQUEDUCT STREET SCHOOL
Move Suggested to Tide Over Present Situation-Question of Renting Building Discussed
[The Welland-Port Colborne Evening Tribune, 29 April 1931]
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Joint committees of the Board of Education and city council as suggested at the meeting, Tuesday evening of last week, met in the city hall, last night, to further discuss the request of the Welland Board of Education for $32,500 with which to build four additional rooms at Empire school to relieve present crowded accommodations.
The meeting was in the nature of a round table conference and considerable discussion followed. Finally it was decided by motion that the joint committee should recommend to the Board of Education the opening of the Aqueduct Street school to tide over the present situation.
Mayor Fred J. Bradley, Alderman H.H. Hilder, James A. Hughes, Frank Springer, John R. Joyce, and City Solicitor, D.D. Gross represented the city council at the joint session while the representatives of the board of education consisted of Trustee Harry W. Macoomb, board chairman, John Young, J.J. Raffey, W.J. Thomas, James Atherton and School Inspector, John Flower. …..
Citing the fact that the renting of any building would be just a temporary measure to relieve the present situation, Trustee Macoomb declared the remedy was to build an eight-room school in Ward two. Several desirable sites were available, he stated. An eight-room school would take care of all the overflow of pupils for five years, he pointed out, adding the board could fill three rooms by September and a fourth room by easing off the overcrowded classes.
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