The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-03-16
Salaries Of AppOintiVe Officers
Of the City
FIRE CHIEF is 10 GET $50
Health Officer and Fire Alarms Inspector
Are Those Acknowledgement Decides
That No City Official Of ANY Class
May Be in Contract With City.

The salaries Of various appointive city
officials fixed for the coming year, city
contracts with any city official declared
illegal, and the various departmental re.
ports for the month Of February re-
ceived, constituted the chief business
done at special meeting Of the city
council last evening, with all the menl-
bers present.
The salaries remain the same as last
year with the exception that the fire
chief gets a raise of five dollars month
to $50, and the salaries Of the FIRE alarm
inspector is reduced from SIPS a year
to $50, due to installing new system
which needs less care, and that Of secre-
tary of the board Of health from $500
per year To 1925 An attempt was made
by Alderman Williams to reduce the
street superintendent salary from ST.
200 to $1,100 per year, but it failed.
Alderman Williams said that the public
thought the superintendent was getting
too much. Mayor Robins said he had
heard the same thing The rest of the
council hadn't anything to say on that
point, and the report went through as
originally made, as follows;
Police chief ............ 1878 per month
Patrolmen ...+......a..S6 SOS per month
Fire chief .......ss $50 per month
Fire captain ......~ .$62.5o per month
tiremen ..s............S6 $50 per month
Gail hremeD ..........-.. $35 per year
Overseer of the poor -. $3.50 per year
Clty engineer ...-...... $1,000 per year
(To oversee all outside work.
Water superintendent $1,000 per year
Duties same as last year.)
Street superintendent 500 per month
Ito furnish own team.J
Secretary board of health, s225 per year
Supt. fire alarm system. $50 per year
The report of the committee to inyes-
tigate the rights of city officials to enter
into contract with the city was to ths
effect that no official Of any kind, hay
warden, inspector Of leather OF mayor,
has the right. The report ia as fol.
lows.
eve have investigated the matter and
are of the opinion that the term city
official not only Includes the members Of
the city council aud elective officers, but
appointive officers as well, and that such
officers are CITY officials within the mean
ing of our city charter, section 55.s
(Which forbids their entering into con-
tract). The report Is signed by Alder
men Campbell, I4add and McNulty and
city Attorney Carver. There was little
discussion over the report when it was
accepted, but the members expressed the
opinion that they would have some resig-
nations TO accept before many twenty
four hours had passed.
The chief of police report for February
showed eighteen arrests, the causes be-
ing as follows. intoxication three, sell
ing four, breach Of the peace six, vio-
laIing CITY ordinances three, keeping IL
made the arrests; Denno two, Slayton
Ave, Carle three, Hamel two, Brown two,
Nichols two, Faulkner one and Richard
son one. This report was accepted and
placed on file, as were the detailed re-
ports Of the water superintendent and
city engineer
The health department reported TWEEN
ty-four births in February, 16 male and
eight females eight deaths, among which
consumption was not included, and pneu-
monia had the most with two; one case
of contagious disease, that diphtheria;
eight burial permits.
The assessors asked leave to begin
their work the last week OF March, TO
have necessary printing done, TO engage
canyassers and to engage clerk, and
the requests we're granted. The renting
Of the vacant rooms III the old town hall
and the rewiring for electric lights were
matters left with the property commit
too