The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-04-06
MUNICIPAL FINANCES.

appropriation passed by the Board of Supervisors for the
half year above the probable based what the
Territory paid the municipality last year. 1t however above the
that the Territory in monthly nstaments when the bal
thirty odd thousand dollars appropriated in the previous
half yearly period for the belt road contract added There always
county money held by the Territory each half which
impossible until after the m-annua collections
necessary for the Territory keep well within the probable receipts
the meantime exhaust either its the countys
treasury balance before the money Settlements between the
Territory and the counties made in January and july the reserve
then paid being commonly known the cleanup
This with the succeeding monthly from the Territory also the
s ro vor,es collected t the county constitute the counvs
resources for the ensuing six months
Owing special appropriations for roads and bridges including
the belt road contracts last amounting about sixty thousand dol
lars, the financial diminished the beginning of the
period that needed for the fire. light and
police services were postponed until beginning
half year. when would known just what the years
Partly enough funds for such improvements and partly
avoid exausng the treasury cash baancwch would necetate
the registering of notwithstanding the hafeary cleanup became
advisable reduce the of expenditures until the end of June
That all there the amendments of the appropriation bill just
made by the Board of Supervisors The action different from
that which the Territorial Government compelled every year
which the old county Board had to take and again %
tavgance has not been marked municipal affairs All the increases
of salaries made passing the appropriation bill aggregate but small
and in most they retain eff
officers Clerks who doing good work had been offered high
pay private employment Probably the Board further than
demanded by the legislature appointing health officers but the
salaries of these and the increase mentioned together do
great deal In the matter of udous treatment of salaries the Board
Of Supervisors will certainly suffer comparison with any g
ture that has in Hawaii
With regard the objects of the made municipal APP
Propiatons the action of the Board quite usthab AS
roads and bridges had been allowed stated very large that
originally granted the expenditure therefor being almost the sole
of the depletion of funds only fair that roads and bridges
should bear the brn of enchmen Anyway this is the only large
spending department that afford reduction of the scale
of expenditure 1t either impossible all question down
the maintenance of the police and of % the fire. lights hosp
tai services, of which objects is need of than
getting AS to the schools the Board has expended their manen
taking them amount par with the former Ter
b;; a 5 u u m @ d S SIu,Um 70 b ~ the
road department. very much has been done in the Improvement Of
At school that the
original appropriation enough for all the renovang of buildings
that required To do that larger class of work there would
the demands
The only time indeed when extensive repairing be done without
serious interruption of the schools the long vacation I'm
the the
the chances presented that the schools would not have
the time when could be best advantage Hence
twas deemed good policy onfne expenditures schools for the
of this period necessities There sufficient retained for this which,
than be said of of the ero
m appropriations for school left charge of the Board of Edu