Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-02-20
NTBURDEN NOW
ON THE TAXPAYERS.
ro,,nciI Busy Creating Additional
Offices and Increasing
Salaries.
NEARLY $500 PER MONTH.

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rnyIneer submitted Recommends
,lon for Appropriation of s'o,69s.oo
For Extra" Work on Conduit.
tho city council had a busy time
nipht at it's meeting creating new
Noes ara Increasing salaries, and
snen IT concluded its session, an adj
| ,.r,nol burden on the taxpayers OF
Ur,,rly 500 per month, had been cree
a,od Three new offices were created
/, connection with the juvenile court
| ,ne IN the city auditors depart
| ort In addition to that the salaries
# the deputy auditor city chemist
lark lu the recorders office and the
%lef nnitor on the city side of tae
.nildinq were Increased, and authority
Gas granted to the city recorder to
employ two extra assistants IN his Of
e,e at. salary Of SO per day each
h index tho dockets IN the Office.
THEY DON'T HOWL NOW.
Notwithstanding the strong howl
bat onanated from the throats of
american politicians and officials
every time anything was said about
h., expenditure " money on the Bic
Cottonwood conduit during the last
IAdmirig ,tion these same parties now
judd Is discover that the amount
,ro, II for the construction Of the
Is not enough and at the meet
asst evening, city Engineer KEEL
ay submitted q recommendation that
lac further and additional sum ~ $50
I9SJ0 appropriated for extra
work on the conduit Tho engineer
proposes to make the following
lhauge, in the conduit at the esti-
mates Of cost given;
BE PUSHED THROUGH
:, inside of said con-
~ plastercd with CO..
plaster at an es.l-
ed cost OF ..,,..,.,Sl7,j 1879
nat all the conduits be
covered with earth en-
/ baukment where it IS pos
Sble to do 80 at an cstl-
mated cost Of ....,..... 24,166.OO
IThat the side walls on all
unfinished work be in
creased IN thickness from
six n6Aeg TO eight inches,
IN acsordpnco With the at
mohad plan at an esti-
2 cAst Of .,.,.,......33 ,993O0
fopcston was referred to the
ison engineering and water
kwlil no doubt be rushed
council at its next meet
for
wn7olG SALARY GRAB.
IT. IT. recommendation Of The
On ui,tee the salary OF the
,nr, auditor was increased from
NJ, per month ana the office
he ger I'm the auditors oiiice
y and the salary Of the Of
at, 500 per month.
10 same committee also concurred
o the action OF the juvenile court com.
mission which employed Mrs w. NJ.
Young a s assistant probation officer OF
the juvenile court at "A salary OF $50
Der month"; Ernest Clark az stenograph-
er for the court at salary of 500 per
month, appropriatlng $500 per month
Tor the maintenance Of the Morris de.
iention school and $3.50 for repairs at
the school. The report was adopted
by the council,
The sanitary committee recommended
tln incre37' in the salary of the city
fhem!st 6 Saj per month and also The
hpproprl, don OF SIS per month for the
purchase Of chemicals and supplies for
his office. This report was adopted.
NEW JOBS; MORE MONEY.
An ordinance was passed creating
the Office OF deputy clerk OF the iuyen-
lie court 10 be appointed by the city
recorder at q salary OF $500 per annum
The same ordinance provided for In
Creasing the salary of the clerk In the
rec. ders office from $500 to $1,000 per
ann m.
Black introduced a resolution increas-
Ing the salary Of the city janitor from
Nv To $50 per month. The matter met
With some opposition from Martin who
declared Ia a loud voice chat he fought
the Increases Of salary during his last
term Of Office and he was against them
now He said that the employees of the
city knew what the salary was when
they bounded the lives out OF the coun-
cllmen in order to get the jobs and
they didn't any more than get their
chairs warm before they came in and
asked for an increase of salary.
MTLVEY SERVES NOTICE.
Mulvey said that he would vote for
The adoption Of the resolution but he
served notice on the council that IL
Would be the last time during his term
OF office that he would favor an in
crease OF salary under any considera-
uon, He stated that he would have TO
dlaW ne line somewhere and if the
councl Kept on Increasing salaries the
TAX levy would have to be Increased next
lllL The resolution was finally adopt
el' Martin casting the only negative
vote
The necessity Of being consistent in
thH compelled Martin to vote
~ ST resolution introduce
! y himself and three other
~ linen providing for the EN-
lo'meht Of TWO assistants IN the city
nfordcrs office at . salary Of 81 per
Gay each TO index the dockets IN that
ounce The resolution was adopted,
iQYtvt without Martins vote.
Tier was some little disturbance
over resolution introduced by Mar
un VII ch authorized the board OF pub
DC HoiXs TO advertise for bids for the
onsirr ton Of fire station No. 5, which
sll be located on the corner Of Ninth
south I'd Tenth East streets. HOLIDAY
strongly opposed the location of the fire
station at that point, as he contender
uai Il would not render the protection
% u iesldents OF that district as in
Nhlei because OF its distance from
wdenCes. Chief Vall and the members