St. Paul daily globe., 1893-06-13

applied in four of the departments in
order to keep them inside the limits of
their appropriations. The table as pre-
pared by the comptroller is as follows:
Fund. Year 1892 Year 1873
Fire department...... S9l, ,025 96 sos, ,15S 2S
Police Department. 1919 u 400 81
Lighting fund. ........ 50.99j So 72.06S 75
Board OF control. ....., 1862 20 10,902 92
Building inspectors
department .......... 4.3S9 bl 5,t53 ~
Health department. -. Aus 80 6,o6l II
Court house and city
hall maintenance. $500 50 0.6S6 32
Board of public works. 745l 30 b,352 25
City officers salary
fund d................. -, 429 % 2l,3T2 2S
Street and sewer main
tenance .............. 5O677 SO 35.5O5 10
Municipal court. ..... 1874 % 5,274 %
Averages in year 1922
Fire department. .. IL mouths, s17663 90
Police department. -. II months, 1891 90
Board OF control. .l2 months, 1,62S 90
Building inspectors
department ....... 12 months, s4s 90
Health department. ..12 months, 9S6 rs
hall maintenance. 12months, 1,417 90
Board of public works II months, S4S 90
City officers salary
Street sewer aud
bridge ge..........12m 12 months, 1915 on
Municipal court. -. IL months, 1,O7o %
Averages for first five months in 1893.
at which rate would exceed their eSti-
mates
Fire department. 49,. Sl0,631 90 s935569 90
Police department.. ID, 4S0 % 1851 90
Court house and city
hall maintenance. 1887 90 232i4 90
Health department. 1,072 90 12s64 90
School fund
Amount allowed for employees $50. Sac 90
Amount expended for account of
same, months. s............ 335S7 12
Leaving for said employees from
May to Sept. 1, months. ...... 1L072 e8
Teachers pay rolls are within the
limit.
Running Out of bounds.
The deficiency in the city hall and
court house fund, the comptroller said,
was due to cleaning, decorating and re-
pairs made by the commissioner several
parts OF the building. There was now
only $1,000 In the fund and as no pro-
vision had been made in the tax estimate
for any such outlay as was being made
in decorating and painting the rooms
there would be no money left to pay
salaries. The only way out of the diff
Guilty was to stop all expenditures and
make reduction in the number Of en-
plOyeS.
The fire department was, he said, I'm
an unfortunate position. Last year the
commissioners were obliged to take an
assignment of the employees pay for the
month of November and go outside and
raise the money to pay the salaries.
Notwithstanding this the department
was this year running along without
making any endeavOrs to keep within
the estimate and in the first five months
of the present year had expended over
$1,000 more than in the corresponding
period last year.
The police department last year had
just about skinned through, but this
year if the pace was kept up that had
been started the department woald be
$4,000 short.
The question now was whether these
two departments were to arrange mat
ters so as to have balance, or let things
20 and be unable to pay salaries and
running expenses for the last Two
months of the year. 1t was very seri-
Gus question, and ought to be considered
at once. There might not be the amount
of taxes collected this year that was an
ticipated, and this would not help
matters any.
Explanations Of No Use.
Commissioner Prendergast, of the fire
board, said the department had been in
formed when the Bell charter had been
prepared s2l5, 900 would be allowed for
these expenses each year. After the
cnarter was passed it was seen that only
80 per cent of this amount was avail
able. This was not learned until after
the expenses had been reduced so as to
keep inside the S2l5,000 appropriation. !
The department was now run as close |
as it could be without closing up the |
engine houses.
1t was suggested that it was fact |
and not theory that confronted the de- |
partment, and if there was only GER
tain amount allowed each department |
there was no use of explaining how the
deficiency was incurred. but to take |
immediate steps to cut down the eX-
penses to conform to the estimate.
The comptroller said the school board,
outside Of teachers salaries, would not
have enough to pay other salaries, and
it was necessary for reduction to be
made in the expenses In this particular.
The teachers pay rolls, he said, would
be within the limits. He also announced
that in the future the school board
would have to make its estimates con-
form to the fiscal year instead of the
school year, as was now done.
Aid. Cullen inquired If there would
not be deficiency in the receipts from
delinquent taxes. Comptroller Nc
Cardy hesitated before answering, but
finally replied that it would be impossi-
BILE to say as TO this before the county
treasurer had made what was called the
June settlement.
Read the Law on 1t,
The following section of the law re-
ating to the subject under discussion
was then read:
Sec. 25. Whenever, In the opin ion OF said
conference committee, any fficer, board or
department. OF said city, or said board of ed
lcation, is not observing economical man
agement of his or its official business and
las, in the opinion of said committee, dur
ng the then fiscal year. made or incurred
such amount of expenses that said officer or
said department will not be able 10 go
through the then fiscal year without over
irawing the amount OF money named in the
ak estimate. or in the tax for his or It's de-
Dartment with the amount collected or col
ectabIe and applicable thereto, then said
conference committee shall Immediately, by
.asolution, so advise said officer or de-
1artment, and thereafter said officer or
lapo chaII have M n0yar Or aufhor,tv |