The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-02-01
1n0|T'S BUDGET
nelly TO REACH
s11,500,000
5MATEs FAR IN EXCESS OF
|5heR vEARs-sEvERAL SAL
~ INCREASES ASKED sY
|oMMIssioNER hAARER.

<hough Tuesday. Feb. 2. Is nomi-
the last day for estimates to
- the ONCE OF the controller. none
= larger departments has yet sent
u budget. Deputy Controller
y has requested the various com
Doners TO hasten their work.
ommissioner Haarer, OF the depart
OF public works. finished reyis-
his budget, Monday morning.
ough there may yet be some
1nses In the way of supplementals.
- OF these Is the talked-of estimate
~ municipal creosoting plant, which
3 not included In the regular esti-
kfes but may go In separately. later.
~ revised, the total asked by the
onrtment OF public works is $S.275.-
or this, y2.595, 902 is for the gen
% road fund. distributed as follows;
|Dairing and resurfacing streets,
1oO,S63: Hepaving. s523.SS4: clean
\ streets, $4,000 sidewalks. cross
|Iks and intersections. s64,60t
|nges, $685.; docks. $1,000: main
|once OF fountains. $1,000; mainten-
~ OF storage yards. S114.5S2: city's
Ne OF original paving. $50, 500; gel
y improvements, $1,000; miscel'
1Oous improvements, $27 800; main
>nnce of the asphalt plant. Sl2,O42.
,or public sewers. $3ss.S2l is
Nd; for maintenance of the city
r 321.743: OF the municipal court
|I1ing, &11,33S; for Belle Isle bridge.
so: for the markets, $9.316; for
1oage collection, $751; 1879. and for the
Sohase OF the garbage collection sta
- site, $27,250; for maintenance OF
y public bath house. $11.762, and for
now bath house $4,000.
Mary increases In the department
public works are: Chief Clerk
xfer J. Murphy. $500 to So
D: Bookkeeper Ray, 1900 to $500;
perintendents Bunnell and Cathey,
100 to $500 each: Superintendent
Street Cleaning Aldrich. $500 20
900; Brick Clerk Cathey. $3.50 tn
~. In the city engineers ONCE
Increase from $4,000 to $4,000 Is
Nd for General Assistant Mitchell,
lie q new assistant engineer for
1de separation at 81 800 is asked for.
The poor commission estimates,
|lch are In, provide for a few de-
|oses along with boosts. Less money
'nsked for stationery and for drugs
\ medicines. The only salary in
use is for the messenger, who is to
y boosted from 1913 to $3.50. IL
EQDed amounts are asked for: Pro
IONS. $4,000; fuel, $4,000; burials.
300: shoes and clothing, $500;
5000.
city physician at 81 900 pei
~ IL asked for, making the total
nber six.
~ far as the controllers ONCE can
ore In advance. the total of esti-
Ifos asked this year will run far
nd of any other year. II Is believed
q the budget as II goes to the coun-
will approximate $11, 100000, and
u even be larger.
Haarer defends his
lctice of this year in Jumping the de-
Ftment recommendation for paving
81 with those of the aldermen on
ground OF economy.
AS things were In the past, the de-
Ument made out its estimates and
j aldermen then came In and added
pplementals," says Haarer. "All
DGe supplementals had to be figured
y hurry by the city engineers men,
4 II made two or three times as
Dch work as there has been this
ar In getting up the paving figures.
|rpeared before the council and ask.
the members to notify me OF items
|)ch they wished included in the es-
nntes and this has been done.
When the budget is gone over,
NJ 60 over the streets personally
ID the aldermen and estimators and
the cases of any which I'think can
patched up. I shall recommend
e they be cut out for this year.
y change does not make any differ
CO In actual results"
Haarer has one complaint with re-
"a TO the work Of the-board of esti-
ties He finds that the balances in
} various funds are $4,000 short OF
ut the board of estimates figured
~ would be and he will ask that al.
vance be made for this fact this
ar.