The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-30
TAX BUDGET THROES
Commissioners Telling the
Financiers About +Abso-
1utely Necessary
Things.
VERY FEW OF WHICH THEY'LL GET.
Police, Fire and School Estimates
Explain ed-They Each Want
About $4,000 Increase.

Under the law the Finance Commission
ers are compelled to prepare and announce
the budget of appropriations to the various
city boards during the month of July. The
necessary estimates have been submit
ted by all the departments, and following an
established custom of giving the members of
each board an opportunity to explain their
needs, the Finance Commissioners last night
beard the Police Commissioners and Chief
Murphy President Brennan Of the Fire
Board. and Clerk Esterbrook, and Directors
Cowles Hoos, Degnan, Obergfen and Sinp-
son Of the Board Of Education.
POLICE DEMANDS.
The Police Commissioners were he ard first.
The appropriations of thls board last year
amounted to 1894, ,466. Under President
Feeney's management, it was sufficient TO
meet all requirements. This year the Board
asks for $40, 900, an increase OF $45, ,543-
| The increase includes Sc, 900 for twenty ad-
ditionai patrolmen The remainder is made
up OF $4,000 for putting steam ia tee City
Hospital; S., 500 for extending the signal sys-
| tenn to the Fifth ereclnct; $l,3OO for metal
| circuit for the signal system; $500 Tor horse
and wagon for Superintendent Foley OF the
signal system; $1,000 additional for fuel,
| making $500 in all; 80, 500 for feed or
| horses, an increase of $500; $500 for sup
| plies to station houses, 81, 600 in excess OF
| last year; s., 800 for repairs, against $1,000
| last year; s., 500, for lighting station houses,
an increase Of 81, 600 over last year, and
| 500, 900 for hospitals and dispensaries, an ins
| crease of 81, 500.
| The Police Commissioners declared that
| their demands were based upon actual Aeces-
| sites. They were told before leaving that
| $40, 600 for new men would not be fortheom-
| ing, and 1t was also intimated that the III
| creases mentioned above would not be coun-
| tenanced. The Police Board will not get
much more than was appropriated last year.
| Colonel Gill Robinson, the clerk, is look
| ing for an increase in his salary from $1,000
to 81, 500 He will not get IT. it is said.
THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
| President Brennan OF the Fire Board tried
| to induce the Finance Commissioners to
allow his board $40 900 for the establishment
| of paid department He was told without
any ceremony that the proposition could not
| be considered at this time.
| The Fire Commissioners last year had
s166, 133 at their disposal. This year S2ll,-
$50 90 is wanted, an increase OF S45. .566-69
Cutting out the S42, 900 for the paid depart
| meut the increase is considered equitable by
the Finance Commissioners. The principal
is $4,000 for claims. 1t was found that
$40 900 was not sufficient last year.
President Brennan made an urgent appeal
for s., coo for repairs to department build
ings ana Sc. .O00 for the reconstruction Of the
fire alarm telegraph. The Finance Gommls-
sioners promised to do what they could.
MONEY FOR THE SCHOOLS.
The members of the Board of Education
were loaded to the muzzle with explanations
of the increase in their estimate. Last year
the Educational Bureau was operated with
1851, ,664. This year S39S,713 Is desired an
| increase of $47, ,049 Exclusive OF this In
| crease the Directors ask for q special ap-
preparation of $4,000 for repairs to school
buildings next summer The Street and
Water Commissioners used to make all re-
pairs. but the School Board now has control
of that work. The Directors overlooked
this fact when preparing their estimates
| The Directors also made q strong appeal Tor
the immediate appropriation OF S3637S for
| the repair of schools during uly and August
| of this year. The Finance Commissioners
said they saw no way to make the appro-
pr1ation at this time.
The general increase In the boards esti-
| mate, is caused by the proposed increase OF
salaries of six teachers from 1928 to 1924,
nineteen from S40s to S52S, thirty-eight from
S4O0 to S40S This is routine matter. The
sum of $500 is required for two additional
teachers at School No. 2; 500 for one at
No. H. $500 for one at No ~ and anotner
| at No. q; S4, 400 for eleven at No. 25; So, 400
for sixteen at No. Is, and $3.50 for princi-
| Dal at No u, 1900 for two additional
teachers at High School, and 81, l4T for
teachers of the new school to be erected
with liquor license money next year. An
increase of 200 in the stationery account
is necessary, the Directors say, for the pur-
chase of books for pupils.
An increase of go, 900 was asked for in the
fuel account. The Finance Commissioners
declared their intention Of being as liberal as
possible with the board.
AS soon as the Aldermen and the Street
and Water, Tax and Sinking Fund Com
missioners are heard, the board will confer
with Mayor Wapser, and the task Of making
appropriations viii be pushed to speedy
completion.