The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-10-13

which has limited his powers aion5
this line, his monthly collections
have averaged almost 5000, all OF
which has gone into the city treasury
Besides this he has turned much mon"
ey over to the state because the city
lacks ordinances which, II passed. |
would give the municipality this extra
revenue. During September, the may
or collected $312.30 for the CITY,
The average monthly expenditure
from the public safety fund during
the past nine months has been 81 ,4O9.
"a. This money has been used for
maintaining the fire and police be-
partments and paying the expenses
of the safety board. At this rate,
s4,227.72 Will be needed to meet the
cost of operating this department
during the next three months. On
October / there was balance OF W,
I11546 standing to the credit of this
fund, S2,1l3.2G less than will be need
cd for the balance of the year. THIS
shortage can be made np by drawing
on the taxes for 1910 and an effort
can be made to overcome the defcit
during that year. This fund Is In as
good condition as IT usually has been
at the close Of years in the past when
it received half of the saloon revenue.
The board of public safety has made
wonderful cuts in the operating eX-
.penses of that department.
The public health department dur
ing the past nine months has had an
average monthly expense of SlO3.s2.
This means that on that basis $31l.76
will be needed for the balance OF the
year. On October the fund had bal
anee OF S1,219.33 or $9O7.57 more than
viii. be necessary. Some of this sur
plus might be transferred to bolster
up one of the other funds.
The board of public service, which
governs the expenditures of the
greatest rart of the city's money, has
aided wonderfully in keeping down
expenses. The average monthly eN-
pense of that department auring the
last nine months was S2,747.23, this
amount including the cost of operat-
ing street lights, street cleaning,
street repairing, market, parks, gar
bage disposal plant, and paying other
expenses. On this basis 1t will take
S8,2il.69 for the balance of the year.
The board has $6SlOS7 or Sl,430,S3
less than is needed. This will leeave
the service fund in the best shape
that 1t as been for several years at
, the close of any one year. Besides
paying the expenses of the service
department, this board recently gave
the public safety department $4,000
needed in the time of an emergency.
The heads of various departments
have been keeping Well within the ap-
preparations allowed by council. but
there are few appropriations which
have become exhausted and under
which expenditures must cease.
In the general fund the appropria-
tion for general ordinances and reso-
utLons has n balance of $l0i.0 .04,
which will not last long If much le-
gal advertising is done. In the public
safety fund the appropriations for fire
alarm system, police stationery, police
fuel and light, police sustenance OF
prisoners and fire department iu-
cidentals are almost exhausted.
In the public service fund the ap-
for stationery under en-
gineering Is gone and that for Incl
dentals has but a small balance. I'm
der street repairs the appropriations
for payroll laborers, tools and i'm
plements and crosswalks are almost
exhausted and that for material under
sewers is gone. The appropriations
for incidents, payroll laborers and
fuel and light under the head of
parks are gone.
All figures given in this statement
are based On money spent for actual |
current expenses and do not include |
borrowed funds.
All vouchers approved nv the var |