The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-15
BOARD VIOLATES
ACT CREATING IT
Mayor Ainslie Directs Attention
to Its Failure to Observe
MUST ACT THROUGH HIM
Holds That Board Can Make No
Recommendation Direct to
Council
MUST ACT THROUGH HIM

Differences between what Mayor
Ainslie thinks should be the correct
procedure OF tie Administrative Board
IN making recommendations. and what
appears 10 have been the general orac-
tice OF that body since its creation
caused the Mayor To address a com
munication To the board yesterday
morning directing attention To the de-
linquency.
Under the act creating the board. it
is provided in Section SO-E tnat it
snail from time TO time make such
recommendations as appear TO IL de-
sirable for the better mana cement and
Improvement of business methods IN
any OF the several departments or the
city government. Such reports, It is
provided, shall be made only TO the
Mayor, who shall in turn submit them
to the City Council, qualified by his
own recommendation concerning them
Went Direct to Council.
1t appears that the Administrative
Board. instead of making its recon-
mendations TO the Mayor. has heen In
the habi. of submitting them direct
to the Council III the opinion OF
Mayor Ainslic, there is nothing III the
creating act warranting such pro-
ccdurc and his letter t. the board
yesterday calls attention TO the re-
eeatcd violation OF the law OF whicn
the board has been guilty.
The most recent instance. according
to the Mayor. was the action of the
board in recommending TO the Cou.i-
Gil as late as last Friday q resolution
recommending the installation of =
system OF h!gh- pressure water pipes
in tho business districts. with idea OF
lcsSening the fire hazard by improv-
ing the water distribution. The rec
"mmcndatiol. he holds. should have
bcoD submitted to him as directed by
Section 30-E,.
TO the Mayors letter the board re-
Piled in writing, declaring its inten-
tion not to ignore the provisions OF
tho section cit"d. The section contains
also n provision calling for an an
nual report On February 10 by the
board 10 the Mayor. This part of the
law the board reminds Mayor Ainslie.
was ompl:ed with in a letter to him
on February IT, in which the board
outlined the work 1t had accomplished
during the foriy-nvc days it had held
office
Called Case to Mind.
On tho subject OF the spcria, recon-
mcndations to the Council To Which
"'Epr NlhSllc oD"louSly mad reference.
the boards letter is silent reply
addressed 10 the Administrative BoarG
by Mayor Ainslie late yesterday after
noon directs attention particularly 10
this phase OF the matter
Only one other section OF the Gre
ating act appears TO offer the slight
est Justification for the boards proce-
durc. Section sod provides among
othe: thlngs thar the Council, after
making IN the annual budget shall
have the power to make additional APP
propriations upon The recommendation
OF the Administrative Board, OF with
out II. The language hore used. some
members OF the board believe, would
seem to support the right OF that body
10 make recommendations direct to the
Council.
To this view Mayor Ains!ic takes
exception. holding the belief that re-
concentrations even as they are un
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