The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-15

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CIR miDal charges. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS dS6 6f
h!ccl.on expenses. ................... 100 90
FIRE expenses Observation-Disclosures. SIS p3
Jail expcnccs .............. 80 ~
Police expenses ........... ............. 133S L
This recommendation was adopted
The bill of J. r. Downing for Ss5. 80 for
the work on the official survey was at
tached to the report with no recommen-
dation. 1t was ordered to be paid
The bill of the Bell Telephone Com
pany for S3S for the telephone on the
Third Ward Fire Department was re-
ferred to the committee on public
property to ascertain if the telephone
conld not be dispensed with. The re-
port was then adopted as whole.
The committee on sewers and drains
reported that they had thoroughly
examined the sewers and drains in sec
ton is and found that Sims, DYER g.
Co. were the lowest bidders OH sewers
and w. w. Fortune was the lowest bid
der on drains and recommended that
the board of public works have the con-
tracts prepared, requiring good security,
and that the mayor award these con.
tracts. The report was received and
the recommendations adopted
The president then announced that
matters under the head OF new business
would be considered.
A petition from the Virginia Heating
and Plumbing Company was read by
the clerk asking for a license to con-
meet pipes with the city sewers and to
give bond to properly do the same. On
motion OF Mr.. Pattie the license was
| granted.
a series OF resolutions, passed at the
recent meeting of Virginia engineers at
Rockledge Hotel on Mill Mountain to
the effect that in view of the tact that
as the sewerage system of the city was
approaching completion and number
of cesspools were being abolished, that
Council require the remaining cesspools
to be cleaned and filled with fresh earth
each day, and that the cesspools and
closets be sproperly disinfected. On
motion this was referred to the COM
r1ittee on ordinances.
Mr.. Groves presented q communica-
ton from the board OF directors of the
Y. M. c. A. asking Council to Law
sidewalk OF Stag or cinder from Jeffer-
son street to the west end Of the Y. nj.
&. A. building. This was referred to
the street committee.
THE EXECUTIVE SESSION.
Then for the third time in the history
OF Roanoke Council went into executive
SSs'oAOh Shu CNOI yOOQJ 6ACopL GQ6 ClJY
auditor and the lanitor were asked to
retire.
MIR. McClelland, chairman OF the fin
ance committee, then read lengthy
| report OF that committee, giving in
detail the estimated expenditures for
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1894.
The burden OF the report was that the
expenditures, even If cut down to the
lowest possible figure, would be in
excess of the revenues of the city, and
that the estimated appropriations would
not be sufficient to meet the demands
and that they would have to be sup
plemented from some other source.
The problem to be solved by the finance
committee was difficult one, and the
| committee, after thorough investiga.
ton, could see no way out Of the diff
Guilty. After some discussion the report
of the com mittee was adopted.
Mr.. Moomaw moved that the city
solicitor be instructed to prepare an or
dinsnce to be brought before Council as
speedily as possible, petitioning the
next legislature OF Virginia to amend
the present city charter to bring it
within keeping with the size and affairs
OF the city. He said the chief cause of
preseni trouble WAS in the charter
wnicn provided for the running of the
municipal government on a scale too
largo for Roanoke and before the
present trouble was removed the charter
must be amended.
Mr.. Fackenthall secured the floor and
ia brief speech reviewed the financial
situation OF the city government He
said that to keep the expenses OF the
city within the limits Of its resources
was problem he could not solve. The
committee on finance had given the
matter careful thought, and could see
no way out. To cut down the expenses
OF the city to the lowest possible scale
there would still he lacking si9, 900 to
pay the current expenses OF the city.
the great trouble lay in tho fact that
] the money had already been spent. 1t