Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-04-03
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of janitors, building and plumbing in.
speCtiOn, care of parks and school
grounds. purchasing Of all city mate.
rails and supplies. and generally have
jurisdiction over all permanent i'm.
prOvements."
Lack Of Proper Auditing.
Another striking instance showing
the need of overhauling the Terrtor.
ial administration Is cited by Mr.
Field in telling of his attempt to Sc.
cure a statement of the Circuit Court
finances. He SAYS:
when the First Circuit Court be-
came part of the organization of the
City and County Of Honolulu on July
81. 1911, the sum of S293.3O was turn.
ed over to the City and County Treas.
urcr BY the clerk of the court for fees,
etc, collected. This money was trans.
terred on memorandum only. as no
audit of the First Circuit Court books
was made by the Territorial Auditor
at the date of transfer. In fact, from
the inspection which was made of the
books kept by the clerk of this court.
in which are recorded fees and other
public moneys received and disbursed,
il was seen that the books had not
been audited since December 81. 1909.
No verifcation of the correctness of
the amount of cash turned over by the
City Treasury as above having since
been made by the Territorial author.
tiles, the City and County Auditor has
been prevented from making any au.
dit of these books from the date of
said transfer to date. This IL mat.
ter, although involving in this instance
small amount of funds. which shows
a great disregard for the proper check.
ing of public moneys"
Division Necessary.
at Is imperative" said Mr.. Field
this morning, discussing phases of his
report, that better division of mu.
niCipal and Territorial functions
should be made. The Department Of
Public Works is operating functions
which II has no business to do, and
the City and County is actually en-.
barassed by the Territorial Depart.
mcnt's work.
THE City and County should have
its improvements under its own De.
partment of Public Works. At the
head of this Department there should
be an engineer elected by the Board
of Supervisors. This engineer in turn
should appoint the heads of the vari
Gus divisions of the work, such as gar.
bage, lighting, city purchasing, etc.
Aims at Efficiency.
The entire report aims at the cen
traliZation of authority, the elimina.
ton of a horde of petty officials get.
ting in each others way and the plac.
ing of responsibility for every ethyl
matter squarely on somebody's shout
ders. where 1t belongs.
lie declares that the Board of Su
pervisors of five should elect one of
their own number Mayor in order that
each Supervisor may be responsible
for the success or failure of the Mayor.
He emphasizes the necessity for ten.
ure of Office depending solely upon
ability and efficiency.
Taking mp details, he declares that
at least two members of the Board
should be at the city hall At least two
hours each dav at a stated time for
conferences and transaction of bust
ness. All the city Offices should be
housed In one building, labOr-saving
devices should be more generally In.
stalled and he particularly lays stress
on the fact that city Offices should be
open at least from in the morning
to ; in the afternoon instead of to I. |
He shows up the listless character OF
the work done by city employees.
With remodeling of the charter, |
the separation and Reconsideration of
revenue sources and other matters, he =,
makes the following estimate of say.
ing yearly: