Coral Gables Historical Archive
The Coral Gables Times
Thursday, May 3, 1962, page 44 (of 73)
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1 2 3 4 9 10 11 12 tion programs, and a cafeteria for community functions that require dining facilities—all jointly used and supported. The school library will be a supplementary operation to the public library. At Wayland, Mass., the town and school board spent $4,000 to cross index the high-school and public libraries, resulting in more effective use of both and considerable economies. While the practice of using school buildings for occasional civic purposes is virtually universal, the financial relief to school budgets is small compared with that made available by joint planning and building for multipurpose uses. Including schools as planned sections of apartment houses or office structures is under study in several areas. Cooperation between two adjoining school systems to create jointly used facilities is a widespread practice. Marietta, Ga., reports two school districts are building a joint vocational trade school. SOME OTHER dollar-saving ideas: Highland Park, Ill., used substandard land to put up an administration building, releasing office space in school buildings for classroom use. Sylvania, Ohio, with six schools and 30 buses, staggers school hours and bus-starting times, cutting the number of buses to half of what would be needed if all started at the same time. Arlington, Tex., uses all-metal auxiliary buildings to fill in gaps when enrollments are rising fast "and tax money is yet to come." Nationwide, PTA's are raising funds for many school-connected purposes, most notably for scholarships. Hopkins, Minn., runs a series of PTA carnivals yielding $1,600 to $2,000 per evening, which "convert a school building into a glorified fun and games house"—parents and teachers man booths, sell tickets, serve refreshments. "Cutting out the frills" in school construction is a favorite conversation topic in suburbia, but whether it is a dependable money saver is widely disputed. Here and there, we find reports of low-quality materials being used to save capital costs at the expense of future maintenance charges, but these are the exception. Insistence on quality is the rule. Auditoriums and cafeterias are being increasingly located in the same space—for which the word "cafetorium" has been coined. Attempts are being made to have two or more schools use such facilities jointly. One "frill" that raises taxpayer hackles more than most is air conditioning; but it appears that while putting air conditioning into an existing building is certainly expensive, a new school designed for air conditioning can actually cost less than one not so provided. In Pinellas County, Fla., bids were recently let for two junior high 18 Suburbia Today, May 1962
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