Waterbury Democrat., 1901-11-22
HIGHER SALARIES.
Report That Greater Waterbury
 Officials Will Ask More Pay
ALDERMEN HAVE THE SAY.

Two Different Boards Must Pass 8
 Resolution for Increase of Salaries
 by a Four-ffth yote-What the
 Charter Has to Say in Regard to
 Raising Salaries Of officials of the
 City.
 While discussing the city finances last night Attorney Kellogg dropped ~ remark that caused some of the ottici- als who have been expecting increases in their salaries to bite at their iiIiS- Consolidation will bring many new duties to the city officials, and II IS said that they will look lo9 corresponding increase iIa wages. After January l., 1902, there will be no town treasurer, and all the duties of that office will have to be performed by the city treasurer The town treasurer res ceives salary of 5000 year and tlle city treasurer gets 5000. What will the city treasurer be paid after he aS- surnes the duties now performed bM the town treasurer, and for which tlid taxpayers planked down the sum or S500? Unless everybody mSunder- stood the city attorney, the treaslirer nor anybody else can get any increase ill salary, no matter how lnucn addi- tional burden may be thrown upon his shoulders. The charter provides thae no ones salary can be increased or de- creased during his term of office, but there is some difference of opinion on this question. Here is what the char ter provides:
 Sec 63. The salary of each of ihe following named officers shall be the rate herein provided: The mayor. two thousand dollars per annum. The city clerk, fifteen hundred dollars per am mum. The comptroller. fifteen hundred dollars per annum. The collector, five hundred dollars per annum as flL compensation for the additional duties imposed upon him by this act. The treasurer, five hundred dollars per an- mum. The city attorney, two thousand dollars per annum. Said salaries shall be ill lieu of all other compensation for any services required of said oft- cers respectively by this act, except as the same may be herein otherwise specified: provided. that if the board of aldermen at any meeting, by an affirm ative vote of four-fifths of all the members, present. and absent, shall re- solve that it is eXpedient to increase or decrease the salary of any of the aforesaid officers to q certain specified sum- and if said resolve shall be adopt. ed by the next board of aldermen hv like affirmative vote. then said board may proceed to enact an ordinance in- creasing or decreasing said salary to the sum specified. The compensation of all the other city officials, who are entitled to compensation and the amount of whose compensation is not otherwise provided for in this act, shall be fixed and determined by the board of aldermen.
 Many take the ground that ID twelve of the present board of alder, men should recommend increases in salaries. and this should be approveN by like number of the new board, there would be no doubt as to the le- gality of it, because the work of mak- ing the increases would have been undertaken before the officials enter upon their duties for the next term, It is not unusual for the salary at- tached to an office to be increased af- ter the candidate has been clecred and before he enters upon his duties.