Municipal council meeting on the k.k. State Trade School

Moving on to the agenda, the Chairman, Mayor Dr Falk, submitted a motion concerning the establishment of an Imperial and Royal State Trade School in Innsbruck, requesting that he be authorised to make an urgent presentation to the High Government in this matter, so that the original plan for a complete State Trade School would not be thwarted by premature dispositions of the premises in the new school building due to the lack of space that would necessarily arise as a result of these dispositions. In support of his application, he presents a letter from the high governor's office, from which it emerges that the ministry in Vienna intends to allocate and use the premises of the new building for the state trade school to accommodate the departments of this institution, that the same will be used almost exclusively by the Drawing and Modelling School and the Central Institute for the Wood Industry, so that there will be nothing left to accommodate other branches of the building trade, especially the metal industry, and the establishment of both departments will be, if not abandoned, at least pushed into the distant future. However, the town led the construction of the school and the savings bank and the state parliament gave their generous contributions to the construction, only on the condition of a complete trade school. A lengthy debate ensues, in which the municipal councillors, Director Deininger, R. v. Schüllern, Savings Bank Director Dr Tschurtschenthaler, Prof. Hämmerle, Knoll and Mayor Dr Falk take part as applicants. The mayor also reads out a letter from the high government dated 7 May of the previous year, in which the successive development of the school into a complete state trade school is assured; however, he points out that several similar promises have already been made and that the municipality has already made great sacrifices as a result of these promises, e.g. to enable the construction of the chemical laboratory and the justice building, without these government promises having been fulfilled so far