Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1904-06-11
Sidewalk fundamentally Treasurer and Clerk
RepOrtS-.OveF Six Hundred Dollars Collected
by Police for May
Traction Company Must Even Up CrOssnes.-POice Com
mittee After Bicycle RldeFS-BuTial Grounds
for the Pauper Dead
FIRE CHIEF DECUSSEB-FlNANCE COMMITTEE REPORT

FaHNN NNN INNlN can 10 no cur lnNfrs
fore Boa that department
We are unable To- aud where wo
can mako any e.. in the gundry cx
ponsls amounting tn tital2OO. az
shown In the report of the clerk
those amounts are practically fixed
for The coming year
We End that the expenses % the
Ere department for the last fiscal
year not including salaries. was
t2.ii1. aud We mud that tho salaries
OF tho fire department as at present
constituted is $3.50 per year. wcalso
End that the council has ordered an
expenditure in this department Of
about $500 Tor "a team OF horses which
seem to- Boz absolutely necessary. we
would recommend that the expenses
~ This department bo limited for the
year including salaries and this $500
Tor the horses. at tf.suOUO.
As co. sewer department we would
/ recommend that tho city Do not pur-
chase any moro sewer pipe We hnd
that we have on hand O. bul Tor ono
car load. which we have 90 pay, and
wo recommend that this department
Del limited Co an expenditure for the
present year OF 81 400.
A. 90 the street department we
I hna that during the fiscal year end.
ing April 18th. 1908. that only $4,000
was spent ia that department which
] A. t..f Ir.ffsH. ..a.r.-.. &c -a...s s...
missioner. that IN the fiscal year end.
ing however ln April, 1904. the oxpen.
SEES OF this department had hcen in.
creased ouehalf or Auy per cent,
leaving out la both years the salary
OF this department for the past year
the salary OF the street commissioner
I loo other words that the expenses OF
this department FOR the pas; year was
tGsO7. not including salary az the
street commissioner an increase af
we say az dny per cent over the pro
ylous year This We think is entirely
TOO great an increase and We recon-
moud that this department be- limit
ga in its expenditures for tho present
fiscal year 20 $1,000 which amount 8,
to include the salary of Che street
! commissioner
We would recommend that whei
leyiea are made for the year that "a,
levy Tor a sinking fund for city build
Ing Dee made aH heretofore and thu
that fund be left intact which woul,
be about $1,000 for this year
I Figuring tho expenditure upoi
, this basis the total amounts TO SIS
, 6S7 90. We can hardly hope 90 recoiyu
. that amount 90 the way OF lnc0m'
& and a. may be that We will later hay,
10 further reduce our expenditures.
/, We would recommend that tho bal
ances as shown ln the different inter
/, ost FUNDS which balances amounte
. at the end of the fiscal year q
4 f2.96G16 be transferred to the ger
, oral fund. Aftor this amount Is trans
ferred TO that fund we nnd that al
ter deductlng outstanding warrants
!. which announced at that time q
= 3i.f7Si5. would leave a balance q
that fund az the beginning OF IN
present fiscal year OF fi1332l
We would therefore recommon
Jbo passage OF tho following rosolJ
ton which Is attached To and mad
n O. part OF this report
a Respectfully submitted,
4 LOUIS ILFELD.
, Chairman Finance Committee