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sites are often provided with baseball diamonds, tennis, volley-ball 
and basket-ball courts, tracks, and athletic fields, and equipped with 
playground apparatus. Many buildings, both in town and country, 
have horse sheds or garages on the premises. 
MAINTENANCE. 
In case of the simpler buildings, maintenance expenses range, in 
general, from 5 per cent to 10 per cent of the initial cost of the plant, 
the expenditures of the less expensive being chiefly for light and heat, 
while to these are added, in case of those involving larger maintenance 
expenses, water rent, telephone, and similar expenses, and salaries 
for secretaries or physical director, caretaker, and librarian. 
Funds for maintenance are secured through dues, fees, assessments, 
rentals, receipts from entertainments, dances, moving pictures, 
bowling and billiards, and, in case of publicly constructed buildings, 
by money voted from the public treasury. 
OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT. 
The persons owning stock in community buildings generally 
organize and constitute themselves a community building associa- 
tion. They frequently take out articles of incorporation giving them 
power to buy land, borrow money, and erect and control such build- 
ings. Nonstockholders using the building are associated as social 
members, both classes paying dues. The stockholders, and in some 
instances the social members, elect a board of trustees of from three 
to nine members, who control and manage the building. Either the 
same body or the board itself elects the usual officers, such as presi- 
dent, vice president, secretary, and treasurer. Committees with 
various duties are either appointed or elected. Immediate duties of 
management are often delegated to a house secretary, physical 
director, or caretaker. In a few instances, in cases of buildings 
presented by an individual or an industrial concern, control is placed 
in a select board, nominated by the donor, and possessing power to 
appoint its successors. Township and city buildings are managed 
by the usual public officials. 
USES TO WHICH BUILDINGS ARE PUT. 
These buildings have become the centers of their communities for 
recreational, gymnastic, athletic, social, and welfare work, and often 
for political, cooperative business, and religious work. The following 
list indicates the more important of the specific uses of buildings. 
Economic: Canning demonstrations, boys' and girls' club work, 
domestic science, agricultural society meetings, fairs, cafes, 
cafeterias, farmers' institutes, and cooperative purchasing and 
marketing activities. 
