The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-08
CONTINGENT !. FUNDS
SEVERELY PRUNED.
ALDERMEN JUGGLE FIGURES TO
..8 FIT CITY NEEDS.
Mayor and Council Lose $4,000 and Ju-
venile Home Is Cut 81 800 Are to .Ad-
vantage Of Attorney, Engineer,
Z Health and Fire Dearptment- Fire
House for Minnehaha.

oeV e y 81 changes in the recommends:
E lions OF the board Sof tax levy were
niade day by the council pruning
/ commlttee which met to- fix the sap.
and permanent Improvement funds fol
l9O1; In the main, the ideas Of the
TAX levy board were accepted. The es.
/ Inmates Inmates Tor the current expense fund
aggregated 81, 342,990.23 from which the
fpoarQ OF tax levy cut various items
winch brought the total to $1,3OO,7lO
Inc pruning committee has no author.
s1ty 70 change the total, and all that
could e!'l pc done was to zrearrange the
items. - 49, :. -. : 80
+. 1t was decided that the unclassitied
iund, formerly known as the council Is
9 fund, from $4,000 to $4,000
me m mayor 8 emergency fund from So, O00
TO 5000, and the appropriation for a
nome Tor Juvenile practitioners from
So,oou TO $4,000. The sums saved, ag-
gregating $500, were applied to the
fodl!oWlng purposes: Increase in salary
OF city engineer, $500; increase flor city
attorneys Office, $1,000; increase for
pudding inspectors department, $1,000;
increase IN ea for garbage collection service,
..>,- Officials Protest.
Dr.. P. NJ. Hall, commissioner of
helth, explained that his estimate Of
$o1,S4l should not be cut, as the in
crease was for the benefit of the ,garb-
age collection service which had been
IN most unsatisfactory condition for
the last year. = -...s-
James! 6. Houghton, building inspec-
tor, explained that a mistake had been
made in reducing his estimate. He had
been able to hold four of his most ex.
perlenced inspectors only by promise
to, use his best efforts to secure better
salaries. The men in question were
experts in their respective lines and, in
his opinion, the city could afford to
pay them at least as much as they
could obtain from private concerns.
City Attorney Frank Healy reminded
the aldermen that his department. had
not been increased for fifteen years, al.
tho the work in that time has grown
tenfold. He needed $1,000 more than
allowed by the board Of tax levy fol-
the natural increase in the work Of the
legal department.. 1850
Rinker Is Surprised.
Andrew Rinker, city engineer, did not
ask tor an lncreaee in his salary. but
Alderman G. B. Holmes reminded the
A"C, .Ao.A VAtt III private corporation
would place the entire responsibility of
all the work entrusted to the city en-.
glneer and expect to pay only $780,
These remarks evidently took Mr.
Rinker by surprise, for he explained
that he had asked for no addition tc
his salary and he had no intimation
that Mr.. Holmes or any one would urge
an increase. .f~44-
Theer was lively contest over the
division Of the permanent Improvement
fund, which the board Of tax lew
fixed at 1910, 200. 4 The board knocked
out! St, 900 for anqengine house at Min.
nehaha and, 81, 900 for a lot for an en-
CINE house at Penn avenue N. Alder
man Mumm appeared for Penn avenue
Attempted raids were made on thu
good roads fund with out avail, also
on the appropriation for bathhouse at
Seven corners, which Alderman Lars
M. Rand thwarted by hard work, and
also on the appropriation Of $4,000
for incandescent gas lamp heads.
e. Armory Fund Saved.
p The armory appropriation Of $4,000
was nearly lost, also, and was saved