Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-07-17
NEW BOOKKEEPING METHODS
Reforms Are Proposed by Urs to the
County Board.
WANTS YEARS TO Be MADE THE SAME
Thinks hest 90 Have County and
Commissioner Fiscal Periods
CorrespOnd-CIainis and
warrants IN Series.

Chairman TIRE OF the finance committee
Of the county board has submitted a plan
for a revision OF the method OF bookkeeping
in use in connection with the claims and
warrants departments. One OF the prin-
cipal reforms advocated IL a change in the
county fiscal year, which now runs from
the time Of making the levy in August
until just before the following levy. Mr..
TRES suggestion Is that the county year
correspond with the commissioner year,
which begins early in January, when the
commissioners take office.
In addition TO this he would have all
claims and warrants run in series by years
and have claim and warrant registers for
each commissioner year. This method, he
contends would enable each county board
10 be checked up easily as to expenditures
and would make It easy to determine at any
time just how much the board had ex-
pended for current expenses The present
system is said to be so complicated It is
hard to separate the expenditures of differ
ent boards. The overlapping OF the fiscal
and the commissioner years also compH-
Gates matters The scheme has been sub
mitted TO q committee, including the county
clerk, auditor and county attorney.
other Routine Matters.
Delegates from the West Leavenworth
Improvement club called on the board Mon
day and asked that part Of the perma-
nent road fund derived from the inheritance
tax he expended on Iyeavenworth street to
Elmwood park. They point out this would
make a beautiful drive down Leavenworth
TO the park and back by the way Of Dodge
street.
f. A. Nash of the electric light company
has renewed his demand for a settlement
OF his claim OF 1878 for electricity fur
nished the county in 1904 controversy
between the board and the company fol-
lowed the expiration Of three-year con-
tract for a light at the county hospital
The old contract called for a 2O-cent rate,
but this expired in 1901. Then the company
put in lucent rate, allowing a Decent dis
count. The county now has an Scent rate
and has allowed warrants for the 1904 bills
on the Scent basis The company took the
warrants, but denies It intended TO accept
them in full of the account County Audi
tor Smith asserts the company was allow
ing 30 and 10 per cent discount at the time
It was allowing the county only 10 per cent.
Some Of the members of the board were Of
the opinion the acceptance Of the warrants
will prevent the company from making
any further claim and the matter has been
referred to the county attorney for an
opinion
Bids for Coal Supply.
The county commissioners at the after
noon meeting let bids for the years supply
OF coal on all items except for the INDECENT
poor and the county hospital. Bids on
these two items were rejected and new ones
will be received July %, at noon. In the
opinion OF tine board the specifications were
not broad enough on these items to include
all brands of coal. The new bids will be
for 20 cars OF soft coal in quarter half and
ton lots and thirty cars of soft coal deliv-
cred on the county hospital switch
The bids accepted were as follows
Court house and jail C. b. Havens COM
pany Cherokee nut. S2.s5; Cherokee steam.
2.S; Missouri mine run. 1926; Iowa mine
run, $3O6 Detention school, c. W. Hull
& Co., Trenton lump. $.b5; anthracite, 81. 90;
Union Fuel company, Sheridan, 1918.
County Clerk Haverly asked the board to
increase the salary Of Deputy Frank Dewey
TO $l25. The request was referred to the
committee OF the whole. The committee
on court house and jail was commissioned
TO make arrangements with the city author
tiles regarding rental for the space occu-
pied in the city hall by Treasurer Fink
The board allowed the claims Of the
judges and clerks at the recent primary on
the basis Of SO for those in the city and "a
for those in the county precincts. The to-
tai amount of the claims was S2le2
The commissioners have ordered work
TO begin on county roads with seven road
machines two elevators and five Rraderz