The Detroit times., 1909-02-02
OETRO|T'S BUDGET
LIKELY To REACH
s11,500,OOO
NJ
ESTIMATES FAR IN EXCESS or
OTHER YEARS-SEVERAL SAL
AIRY INCREASES ASKED BY
COMMISSIONERS hAARER.

I AlkuouEA WtHhAsf INhs - -
ually the last day for estimates I"
reach the office OF the controller, more
OF the larger departments has yet SEM
4 in its budget Deputy Controller
( Nagel has requested the various COM
missioners 10 hasten their work.
/ Commissioner Haarer OF the depart
ment OF public works, finished revis-
ing 2A4s-hGAget, Monday morning.
although there may YET be some
changes in the way % supplementals.
One OF these Is the talked-of estimate
for a municipal creosoting plant. which
is not included in the regular est
mates but may go In separately. later
! AS revised, the total asked by the
! department OF public works is S3,215.
7Sa or this. s2.595902 is for the gen
eral road fund. distributed as follows.
7 Repairing and resurfacing streets,
81 ,3s0.S6S; repaving, s523,5s4 clean
ing streets, 1867 900: sidewalks. cross
walks and intersections. S6i.60t
DridgesE s5.s25; docks. $1,000: main
tenance OF fountains. $1,000: mainten'
ance OF storage yards. $lii,5s2; city's
share OF original paving. $50 500. gen
eral improvements. $1,000. miscel-
laneous improvements. s27.500; main
tenance OF the asphalt plant. sl2.042
For public sewers. $399,32l IS
asked: for maintenance OF the city
hall. s2l,743 OF the municipal court
building. .33s; for Belle Isle bridge.
sS050: for the markets. s9.316: for
garbage collection, 1889, and for the
purchase of the garbage collection sta
tion site. s27 ,250: for maintenance OF
the public bath house, sll.762. and fer
new bath house $4,000.
! Salary increases In the department
OF public works are: Chief Clerk
Porter J Murphy, $500 to So
600; Bookkeeper Ray, 81 500 10 $500:
Superintendents Bunnell and Cathey
1000 to $500 each: Superintendent
of Street Cleaning Aldrich. 81 500 20
$4,000; Brick Clerk Cathey. 1920 "a
sl,03i In the city engineers offi
an increase from $4,000 To $500 T.
asked for General Assistant Mitchell.
while a new assistant engineer f9l
grade separation al 81 500 Is asked for
The poor commission estimates
which are in, provide for a few de
creases along with boosts Less money
is asked for stationery and for drugs
and medicines. The only salary in
crease is for the messenger who is tc
be boosted from 1913 to $3.50 IL.
creased amounts are asked for: Pro
visions, $4,000, fuel, $4,000. burials
300. shoes and clothing, $500;
transportation. 5000.
Another city physician at 81 900 PEI
year is asked for, making the tota
number six.
AS far as the controllers office car
figure in advance, the total OF est.
mates asked this year will run far
ahead OF any other year. II is believed
that the budget as II goes TO the coun
ell viii approximate sl1.500, 900, and
may even be larger
Commissioner Haarer defends his
practice of this year in Jumping the de
partment recommendation for paving
work with those OF the aldermen OF
the ground Of economy
As things were in the past the de
partment made out It's estimates ant
the aldermen then came in and addet
supplementals." says Haarer. "Al
these supplementals had To be figured
In a hurry by the city engineers men
anu ~ Hidut Two vi three llUeS ds
much work as there has been this
year in getting up the paving figures
| appeared before the council and ask
ed the members to notify me OF item.
which they wished included in the es
Inmates and this has been done.
When the budget is gone over,
shall go over the streets personally
with the aldermen and estimators anc
in the cases OF any which | think car
be patched up. shall recommend
that they be cut out for this year
The change does not make any differ
ence in actual results
Haarer has one complaint with re
gard to the work of the board OF esti
mates. He finds that the balances IN
the various funds are $4,000 short o.
what the board OF estimates figured