The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-05
AUDITOR HEATING
 WANTS SALARIES BETTER REGULATED
Submits Communication to Com mon Council Asking For New Ordinance to
 Provide Increases
Final Meeting of Board as Con- stituted in Past Year-Lit-
 tie Business Transacted

Board of Aldermen last night was of little importance, most of the business
 being of a routine nature Members of the council expressed fe1icitations regrets, qualifications and SO forth by 1 way of farewell greetings to those who will not be with the Board f1ere- after. Resolutions expressing gratitude were passed and all were made to feel
 good. The hearings were of little mo-
 ment and hardly any one Attended
 them A communication from City
 Auditor Bernard Keating was receiv-
 ed and was of considerable interest,
 inasmuch as it related to salaries of the city and deputy auditors which MT.
 keating believes should be increased.
 The communicate was referred to the
 Ordinance committee.
 City Attorney John S. Pullman sub
 mitted a communication with regard
 to the Seaside park extension which
 has sort of fallen through because the
 referred to the Park board and it is probable that proceedings will be start ed over again, as technicality sis re- sponsible for the failure in the first
 suit.
 City Auditor Keating's report ad-
 vocated a regulat ton and increase in
 the deputy auditors and stated the req sons why such a regulation and an in screase8weres wanted MT Keating be- slieves thatAthe position'sof the city au- sditor and the assistants in that office should be put on flair, proper and
 adequate salary basis, commensurate ties aaof tie ~positioz1s, such salaries to
 be in lieu of all other city compenSa-
 tion.'' The report states that the mat ter has been brought to the attention
 of the mayors of the city for several years, when other salaries were regu- lated The matter was taken up. with Mayor Wilson He advdsed deferring it until the audit committee had eonl- ry1eted ifsk Iab0rS
 The salary of the city auditor is now fixed at 900 year and the com auditor audit. s and i'd deputies Ss have add added to. work for the. city or for private par stances required s.the burning of mid night oi1,'' according to the report. MT Heating goes on to say in his eonsnunicati9n E ou1d bs faT more re the office menHoned. and I be1keve7 that it would be- more Advantageous to the citys if the necessity for outside work were obvIateds by making the salaries adeauatee and requiring the entire time OF the officers nameds and prohibiting the receiving by either of CT direct or indirect from the city. I] deem it proper 10 bring this matter to the attention of the Common council rather than to the attention of@the Iegislatures because | believe that your honorab1e- body is a far better 1udge1 of what proper salaries are, for officials than any committee Of 1.-the legislature could possibly be, for req sons so obvious as not to require men ton, and also do so because T am
 = The IsI con co1nmuniea nj ton sta1ed that it would be entirely satisfactory -1fg re- ferred to the ordinance commiftee. The comm unicatfon continues, in part:
 <sT1ie salary. ought to be fixedk for the office, not for the man who may fill it. The city auditor and his as sistants can be, feel confident, IAlly and prof1tab1y employed in perforLnIng the duties of their respective offices. to the exclusion of all other work, either public or private, but T respect fully submit that the salaries now paid are inadequate and will not com ma1d the services of capable. persons, to the exclusion of all other business A capable person whose time Is re uuireds in any capacity either public, l or private, at an adequate coTnpensa- ton, can earn 1t if 2 he so resolves.
 ssAt the risk Of being consideredI egotistic. IT desire to cali attention to one rneasureso of several foriginaled anu successfully by me, that mas been of great financial benefit to the city although, at the time, it's advo-l cacy by me was considered by-Inany l as quite foreign to my official duties as auditor I refer to the measurs banks interest on city deposits. i
 .sSince the measure was put Tn pfac- tice the city has received for interest |
 
 as for a period of 55 years antedaf1ng 19g1szs theeS city received no payments | for int terest on city moneys on deposit in banks. And the amount of money received by the city for interest ought | to be much greater and would, do1IoL- less be much greater than 1t has been, were it not for the Tact that the na- bined bid instead of separate ones. which action on their part has a ten dency to keep the rate of interest low
 11<7 he. bank acted ana bdd separately.
 sssEFozEId yolz= consider the subject matter. of this corn1na1nicafion favor ably would suggest that the new go into effect on the first aay of April, 1913, the cornnenceulent of the next fiscal year, so as to give nerat and Taxation to consider and provide the means required in the next city budget. would also suggest, as in the line of progress, that the cify lis1itor be made ex-of11cio clerk of the finance committee, without conpensa- ton therefore, as know, from past that this will facilitate 1he of city business.9
 A petition was submitted by the E Board of Education to have signs erected on streets near the schools in proximity of the schools. David S. 1inand, agent for the Board of Edu- cation, was on hand to renonstrate against allowing L. Jab1onski to ex- tend over the building line on GHnqorei street. A petition to erect a canopy n front of the new Poli. theatre in Main street, across the sidewalk, was referred to the director of public works In the report of the Sewer Connnni issfon a. sewer on Beechmont avenue to connect with the Main street sewer for the benefit of L. B. 4fnderer, ct al, was approved. The ,ity engineer reported that the acts ,f the Common Council establishing grades in Livingston Place and Edna lvenue, passed Oct. IS, 1909, were il- egal as no hearings were held The -eport recommended that the action of he council be rescinded, and new grades be adopted The report was Ldopted.
 Alderman G. w King opposed pc ition from Logan Bros. Go. to extend he. second story of it's new building