Waterbury Democrat., 1901-12-31
MAkE TT AFTERNOON.
Meeting of Board of Education Would
 Be More Convenient.


 Some one or more of the boards that will come with the new admins tration which begins office next Mon- day evening, will have to adjust it's meetings so that they can take place i'll the afternoon. So many of the boards meet evenings that it has been with difficulty and considerable in- convenience to adjust it's business so that it may be taken up by the gov erning board, the board of aldermen. In the question of finances especially IS this difficulty most apparent
 The rules of most of the boards GE present require them to meet on the same evening and demand Of the may or the gift of ubiquity. As the demo- cratic party in this city has not yet reached that state of perfection, not withstanding that it is far sshean in every respect of the republican partv, the mayor has to skip around from one meeting to another, sometimes two or three of them the same evening. Thus while each of them benefits to some extent by his advice ard pres ence, all of them are necessarily ne- glected.
 After the special and final meeting of the board of education yesterday afternoon n few of the members re- mained and discussed this matter with Mayor kilduff. 1t has been thought that the board which could more cas- fly hold its meetings afternoons would be the board of education, as only one or two, or at the utmost probably, three, of it's members may be inccE- yenienced by such a change. Inc rec ord of this body shows that afternoon n1pntinOc baVn4 h0nt1 rf1fY To af.fra1 1v nt tended than those held evenings. no matter how important the business to be disposed of at the latter may have been. Very few of the members can refer with anything at all like pride to their record. Commissioners Kill martin and McDonald's are the best, while Commissioner Cowells might at a hazard be said to be the worst. Yet he was always on deck at the after noon meetings. In fact all the pro- fessional members of the board found it easier to attend these meetings. Mayor Kilduff's cure for this unavoid- able evil would be a board consisting of the heads Of all the departments of the city government. The schools would be represented by Superintend- ent Tinker, the street department by Inspector Kelley, fire department and police department by their respective chiefs and so on. With this body meeting twice or thrice a week mu- nicipal necessities would be attended to with far more dispatch than at present. And mistakes, for unfortun- ately no matter how well conducted d city may be, mistakes will happen they could as readily be remedied as they happen and their consequences tn ho sated for by the rapidity of their cor rection
 At present, if a property owner wants building line established he has to wait many months. Some times property owner builds, by mis- take, beyond the city building line, or as has often occurred a building line had not been laid out for him, and his holise is completed before the mistake could be rectified, all owing to the roundabout way of getting home to the cause of necessities in this city.
 A body composed as above suggested would meet two or three afternoons, or two or three days each week, and dc more business and do 1t better and quicker and with more satisfaction to all interested than is now done in two or three months.
 Mayor Kilduf was asked if such a. system of municipal government pre- vailed in the country and he replied that he knew Of none, but something like it does exist in some cities. He agreed that some of the boards must arrange to meet afternoons. so that what business they may have to come before the governing or supreme board, the board of aldermen, should not be delayed as under the present system it has to be sometimes for weeks.