7. What plan would you arrange for the making of the inventory? Who should make it? Who should make it? At what time of the year should it be made? 8. Who should be held responsible for loss occurring in the inventory? Consider, for example, the loss of three $25 microscopes from the biological laboratory. 9. If an inventory is made at the close of the school year, to what use can it be applied at the beginning of the fall semester? 10. Develop a form which you would plan to utilize in a high school of 1,200 students. BIBLIOGRAPHY STRAYER, G. D. AND ENGELHARDT, N. L. Inventory Book for High Schools. C. F. Williams & Son, Albany, N. Y. PROBLEM 88 DETERMINING THE EQUIPMENT COSTS FOR NEW HIGH SCHOOL BUILDINGS Problem: It has been decided by the Board of Education of Meridian, N. K., to ask the voters of the community to pass upon a bond issue for a new high school building. The Board is very anxious to establish estimates of costs in all phases of this building project so that the ultimate cost will not exceed the bond issue and so that every need may be anticipated. The superintendent of schools has been asked to present a statement of the amount of money needed to equip this building. In making the estimates for total costs of this structure, the Board has divided its estimates among the following items: Site, Building, Improvement of Grounds, Architect's, Engineer's and Other Professional Fees, The Superintendent of Construction, Furniture and Equipment, and Surplus for Contingencies. It is proposed that the present capacity of the high school building will provide for 1,000 children. In the regular classrooms, 775 children can be seated. Two hundred and twentyfive children are to be provided for in the special department rooms. The building will contain an auditorium with balcony seating 800, a boiler room and coal room, boys' and girls' gymnasiums, locker rooms and shower rooms, two household arts laboratories, two boys' shops, mechanical drawing room, library, health service rooms, principal's office, two teachers' rooms, lunch room and kitchen, 19 classrooms, a biology room, chemistry laboratory, physics laboratory, bookkeeping room, typewriting room, shorthand room, art room, corridor lockers and toilets. Provision has been made for the extension of this building as curriculum needs and enrollment require. To assist in estimating the cost of equipping this building, Table 1 has been available. This table gives the cost of equipment in four high schools. The percentages of cost devoted to groups of rooms and to individual rooms are included in this table. 8,106 19.9 1,890 4.6 $ 40,758 100.0 $109,784 100.0$ 99,600 100.0 $ 41,649 100.0 $ 7,612 18.7$ 11,244 10.2 % 6,800 6.8% 5,252 12.6 I. Auditorium and Stage. 10,484 25.7 II. Cafeteria III. Gymnasium, Pool, and IV. "Home" Lockers 3,057 7.5 7,180 7.2 3,418 8.2 V. Toilet Rooms VI. Library 1,847 4.5 D. Administration Rooms: I. Administrative Offices II. Teachers' Rooms III. Health Service Rooms E. Miscellaneous (Window Total Equipment 226 0.6 2,313 5.7 6,326 5.8 $40,758 100.0 $109,784 100.0$ 99,600 100.0 $ 41,649 100.0 Assignment 1. How would you, as superintendent of schools, proceed to secure the estimates which the Board requests? 2. How can the wide variations in Table 1 for a single room or a single group of rooms be explained? 3. To what sources would you go to secure a statement of the equipment needed in each of the rooms indicated? 4. Have all items of cost for the new building been included in the seven items listed above? 5. Is it possible to set up standards establishing a desirable relationship between the cost of the site and the cost of the building? 6. What are the factors which alter the equipment needed for a cafeteria? 7. What changes have been taking place in the nature of physical education which have affected the equipment needs for gymnasiums? 8. In determining the equipment of household arts, what are the factors concerning teaching program which must be first known? 9. There is no lecture room for physics or chemistry. What effect has this upon the kind of equipment to be provided in these laboratories? 10. Estimate the cost of home lockers for this school, indicating the type to be used. BIBLIOGRAPHY BRACE, G. M. Industrial Subjects in Schools. In National School Building Journal, 3:131-34, 150, 174, 224, 248; 4:23, 46, 60, 82, 84, 86; October, November, December, 1922; January, February, 1923. CALDWELL, O. W. A Descriptive Booklet of the Lincoln School. Lincoln School of Teachers College, Columbia University, 1925. CALVIN, H. W. Equipment and Rooms for Home Economics. U. S. 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