The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-03
ALDERMEN ADOPT
ANNUAL BUDG { I
Approve Measure as 1t Game
From Council-Music Item
Is Included.
BEcKs SALARY INCREASED
Will Receive $1,000 a Year
Gunst Talks About Car
Tickets.
BEcK's SALARY INCREASED

Leaving to Mayor Richardson the
duty of passing on the validity Of tho
appropriation for music in the parks.
in view of tho opinion Of City Attorney
Pollard that such expenditure Is illegal,
the Board OF Aldermen last night con
CURED In the annual budget and ac-
companying school resolutions as they
came from the Common Council.
Subchairman Grundy. OF the Com
nittec on Finance. said that committee
| mad debated tho amendment placed in
the budget by the Common Council
nsferring S3,975 from the item for
paving alleys to music in the parks
! The committee. he said was opposed
| to diverttng the alley funds, and In
view OF the City Attorneys ruling did
| not think 1t within the province OF
the Council to pay for music.
Ncyertheless.'' continued Mr.. Grundy.
! we have decided that It is best 10
accept the ordinance a 1t comes from
(. the Council. rather than have il banded
/ about from one branch to the other
with the resulting delay In govern.
mental machinery. we do not believe
In the amendment but we will accent
| it" -
Alley Fund oycrdrnwn.
Mr.. Don Leavy led a fight against
! me council amendment. not that he
! was opposed TO music but on ma
| ground that the alley fund could not
afford TO be cut presenting statements
! from Inc City Engineers Office showing
mat the street Committee had ALREADY
orucfed work costing sS,9S43I which
! would now have TO be cut down to
get within the reduced appropriation.
itc Went on TO say that work had been
ordered by Mr.. Lynch Mr.. Gunst, Mr..
Aali. Mt Nielsen and others that must
now be abandoned unless the alley pay-
! IN funu were to be greatly overdrnwn.
he moved that the music item bc
stricken out, and the amount restored
- paVihg alleys, making that 4und
iSIo'ocV, as originally recommended
II am tired" he said .of having tho
! lower branch overload the budget IRIS
way each year and then shove II down
our Threats With this cry OF danpnr -
delay. The blame is on the lover
ments,"
AR Bennett defended the music i,on,
SAYING that the committee had not
! spent all its fund for alley payinr Ia et
Star' ana That committees generally
were wasting the taxpayers' money
learlng UP work and replacing Il ia.
800, naid me END of the year, rather than
~. any money revert to the treasury
MT, ilobson thought it would prove
impossible to spend the money pro-
,ldeo for alley paving. because Of N.
lolls DELAYS IN issuing allegations and
assessing damages
Take 1t From Chr Tickets.
huhHst proposed as a substitute
mat the money for music be takon
from the fund Of $4,000 provided for
street car tickets Of Councilmcn.
Now II YOU are as anxious 10 Give
ne People what they want and ore
- ma unanimous as You claim 10 be.
49, Of said Air Gunst. I'VE Should
ne re this fund from the alleys
| Ar. towers made the poin. OF ord.r
e.iat re Item, OF street car tickets IN
oouhcliinen was provided by ord;nancn
ana could only be repealed hy conc,,,
rent resolution.
var, Grundy urged the members MOI
20 set INTO n snarl oyer so Important
q, no tlrI as the budget, promising thar
- ne FINANCE Committee could 40 "a
later II would supplement the f,n1
lor alleys The Gunst motion IN tal,a
me music money from tho C.ouncii.
men, street car ticket fund was lost
overWheimngly, and the music item
ai!o"ed TO stand, several Aldermen
| remarking that the Mayor cou,d a.
tend to it without the DELAY Of I,nvin,,
| II go back to the other branch. IIndcr
me charter the Mayor may veto any
| Single item OF an appropriation ordl-
nance and approve all the others.
M: Nielsen proposed a transfer of
slo.ooo from the Shockoc Creek fund
TO Improvement of Lester Street Mr.
Grundy said the budget provided s15.
GOO for Lester Street, all that should
/ he asked this year. and an ample as
| surance OF good faith and the inten-
rion of the Council TO finish that IN
dertalling. The motion was with
drawn, and the budget concurred in as
whole, go to 0.
The school resolution providing for.
! two white school buildings to cost
Jointly $4,000. and one colorcd school
to cost $4,000. was concurrcd in by
the same vote. The School Board is
to secure plans, specifications and com.
pettive bids, and report the cost OF
each building to the Council.
Beck's salary.
The Finance Committee reported Il
resolution increasing the salary Of
the Building Inspector from $500 to
$500. Mr. Hobson wanted to know
whether Mr.. Beck would stay with the
city for that amount, saying that he
understood that he had been offered
$4,000 by the Virginia Railway and
Power Company. Mr.. Grundy said the
| Finance Committee had been assured
that the Building Inspector would stay
With the city.
Mr. Don Levy opposed the whole res
,lution He admitted that Mr.. Beck
might be worth more money to the
Virginia Railway and Power Company
or in other capacities to the city, but
! that no great engineering skill was
required for the Office Of Building In
| spcctor. and that $4,000 was ample
| especially as the Superintendent or the
! Water Works and other officials hold
ling just as responsible positions at
the head Of larger departments, get no
,,orc On the roll call the increase