arrangements, miscellaneous details, and plan layouts for gymnasiums and playrooms, music, art, mechanical drawing, general and special shops, agricultural shops, general and special science laboratories, auditoriums, toilets, social science, teachers' rooms, commercial rooms, cafeterias, domestic art, et cetera.

In the field of special schools we have an illustrated report on the reorganization of the school for the deaf, and plans dealing with kitchen and dining service standards, dormitory housing, special school administration quarters, and the like. Standards for a junior high school administration layout, a high school site development plot plan, and a one-hundred-pupil cafeteria layout, are published herewith as illustrative of these standards. (Plates III, IV, and V.)

College Site Standards.

We have now complete plot plan studies of all the seven teachers colleges, although the plots for San Jose and Santa Barbara have not had final acceptance. In the case of San Jose, there has been vacillation and indecision respecting the purchase of San Jose High School and the local Carnegie Library, and the front facade is now about to be ruined by the erection of wire enclosed tennis courts on the front lawn, disfiguring the main approach and blocking the next logical future extension. The San Jose State Teachers College plot plan showing these conditions, is shown in Plate VI.

The Santa Barbara State Teachers College site consists of 14 acres of hillside land. In respect to area Santa Barbara does not possess a site. The history of the efforts of President Phelps to interest the proper authorities in enlarging this site is one of alternate hope and failure. Today the most desirable acreage is no longer available, and if it were, it would cost many times the reasonable price for which it was once offered. This apathy in respect to such a fundamental issue can only be accounted for as lack of departmental policy. There is some land available today above the present site, known as the Marin property. We have agreed to sponsor legislation for its purchase, and no stone should be left unturned to accomplish this. The state has continued to invest its funds at Santa Barbara without an adequate site. During the past two bienniums the state will have made the following expenditures at Santa Barbara:

Thus our investment has become too great to consider abandonment. If the shops were properly housed, and a women's gymnasium erected and proper field areas provided, there would not be a legitimate building site left on the campus. These conditions make site enlargement imperative. The situation is illustrated in the proposed plot development of Santa Barbara, shown in Plate VII. -Unless we are ready to adopt a positive and constructive policy toward these two institutions, the division requests relief from all planning responsibility for them.

PLATE IX. The object of this layout is to give the oral English teacher supervision of two stages at once, with common scenery, property, and stage carpentry rooms. The juxtaposition of the music department permits the use of stage dressing rooms as music practice rooms.

In the case of the Humboldt State Teachers College, a fine piece of constructive work has been done in enlarging the site. The state owes a real debt to past president Ralph W. Swetman and certain local citizens who have purchased and held land from time to time, until the state could appropriate the necessary money. There is another site enlargement problem at the Fresno State Teachers College which appears to be at least partially provided for, and one at Chico, which is not receiving proper attention. I bring these site enlargement problems into this report because I believe them to be serious in nature, and fundamentally necessary to the future growth of the colleges. Attention is respectfully called to the fact that no other group of state institutions are as cramped in site areas as the teachers colleges. only adequate teachers college site the state owns is at San Diego. The San Diego site with its proposed building and field layouts is shown in Plate VIII. The site contains 125 acres.

College Room-Layout Standards.

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The division now has on hand standards for most of the types of rooms used in colleges. Many of these are adaptable to junior, as well as teachers colleges. Some of these rooms which have received special attention are college assemblies, little theaters, lecture rooms, specialized science rooms, cafeterias, student union facilities, domestic art provisions, administration quarters, libraries, training school rooms, et cetera.

For illustrative purposes, the layout of the Chico auditorium-little theater-music unit is shown. (Plate IX.) For teaching convenience, plan compactness, duplicate use of facilities, and interrelation of departments, we believe this plan shows considerable merit. The new library at San Diego is also shown. (Plate X.) This plan represents a sincere effort to organize for maximum speed in book availability. It has set a new conception for our teachers college libraries.

The urgent needs of teachers college housing have been enumerated in a recent report for the department of finance. It is to be hoped that these needs can be provided for by some constructive program that will allow teachers college housing to catch up with its gross needs in the near future.

Specifications.

From time to time the division has found it necessary to develop standard specifications for certain phases of schoolhouse planning. So far these have dealt largely with the composition and laying of graveled and surface play areas.

Safety Standards.

Safety standards are maintained by requiring all schools to meet a minimum corridor width schedule, a stair location and width schedule, safety coverings on stairs, and ramps, appropriate rails, properly proportioned risers and treads, fireproof stairs, panic-bolted exits, properly marked exits, et cetera.

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FINANCIAL PROBLEMS.

Study of Problems Needed.

If California is to render efficient planning service to the districts coming under her jurisdiction, she must be provided with the means of gathering the necessary technical information. The history of the financial aspects of California's support of education has been the story of one second-rate guess after another. Moreover, we have not only made second-rate guesses on those topics which have crippled our state support program, but on other topics, local in nature and less obvious and insistent in character. The amount of insurance to carry, appraisal value, waste in plans, studies of maintenance costs, types of materials cheapest in the long-run, what interest rates should bonds carry, and bonding versus direct taxes, have been almost totally neglected fields of investigation. Our public school system can not hope to command the respect of business men until its control and guidance come from research and study instead of guesses and momentary expediency.

Those problems coming naturally in the field of schoolhouse planning should be studied in our division. The preparation of these factual studies will entail added expense. The natural reaction to the present business depression will be the curtailment of expense, but education can never hope to reach a basis of intelligent expenditure, with consequent saving, until these studies are made. For this reason, the enlargement of our staff seems fundamentally imperative. At the present time it is physically impossible to check the plans coming into our office with any degree of efficiency. Occasionally, the division takes time to suggest rearrangements. Each time we have been able to render such service, the district has benefited materially. We include in this report (Plates No. XI and XII) a normal example of a plan rearranged to save 639 square feet or about $2,500, and at the same time, shorten the total building length so that there is frontage preserved in an amount

that allows the future auditorium to be on the front of the lot convenient to the public, and still usable from the school. The perimeter (exterior wall) of the rearranged plan is shortened by 73 lineal feet, and since outside wall costs two or three times as much as interior wall, the effect of this on economy will be apparent. Incidentally, the total length or partition is cut from 1485 to 1327. Along with this cut in area and partition length, is an improved plan. Note the relocation of the primary grade toilets off their own entrance, the compactness of the administrative suite, the use of the public space for the nurse and the executive, and the relation of the nurse to the teachers' rest areas.