The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-03
BOARD MUST
 SHOW MAI New Mayor Holds [ lice Transfers and Ed tion Account to Leg Just Why They Al
 Needed.
RED BRICK FOR SCI.
Expenditures to be KepI Minimum and Will be I, tigated--Charles Fisl Made New Membe1
 of Board.

Mayor James B. Martin at Il session with the new board of ol which he is the new head, lasl showed that he wanted to knl why's and wherefores in the mt the expenditure of the people'sI Tn the first place be~held up th department payroll by ..issss .sss istil the board of police con
 should appear before himseAs other panciers and show N necefsafN that the board eff should nsfer $S2.7s from tll alarm a Aunt to the payroll of the ertment. Another ti' asked by'the police commissioned $Sso,25. this being from the heatiI count tp the payroll and makS total transfer asked for of $423.ol
 Have you any idea" said Martin, as he turned to ConS Jonathan N. Rowe, why the wants these transfers?"
 T do not know, MT. Mayor k MT. Rowe, unless there is,a shty perhaps"
 Well, wouldn't it be a good ides! the board of police commissioner, come up here and explain?" asked mayor.
 MT. Rowe, William c. Redfield , jamin F. Ess, the latter two the members of the board named bv Me Martin yesterday, and James To and Henry Farrell, agreed with 3at 1t would be wise. Therefore Ior Mattln has jailed a snecial of the finance boasd fo. ssss forenoon to take actioa upd ter. The weekly payroll oa Department ~amnuffts to sa
 there had been no action B the patrolmen would receivL
 aries by noon to-day, but noW E ment of the men may be deferred $ eral hours.
 The other things that were decI upon were that the board of educa should not be permitted an additit $2,ooO in order to meet the schedul, increases in the teachers salaries W out first explaining to the fiAance bc why 1t should specify that 1t could meet this obligation when 1t is si about its, other accounts. At the , regular meeting of the board of fina Thursday, the matter will be tai over. The milk in the cocoanut is the board of education was allo, $6O0,lSl by the financiers, the amc asked for being $Sol,O In nal the reduction when it considered income and expenditures of the in December, the finance board. am other things, cut off s2.0oo, which education board insists is needed meet the increase-in salaries
 The education board had a comm, cation before the board last nieh, which it assumed that unless the ance board adds s2,0OO to the orig appropriation for the salaries of scl teachers for next year, the increase $50 per teacher throughout the | which was voted by the educa board to go into effect next Septem will not go into operation at all.
 When the education board went , the appropriations made for it bv finance board it discovered that $o,sfS which was asked for by board for he proposed increase been shaved down to $3,94S. The ance board figured that it could . s2,ooO more than it estimated in course of the year from sundry , ings in the salary account, basing on the fact that it had saved $500 this way in 1906. If this amount saved at this time in 1908 in nal up the estimates it was the opinio the old board of finance that the h, should be able to save another s, during 1908.
 The vote of the board of educa taken December 12 announcing tha could not pay the increased sala unless the other s2,00O were appron, ed was read by City Clerk Deyine
 Controller Rowe said that he did understand why the board should S fly that 1t was short in one depart, when it did not specify ay fo aN& |
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