Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-03-30
SALARY CUT,
CITY FATHERS
LATEST PLAN
Retrenchment to Amount of
$4,000 Brings Out New
Idea at Sunday Meeting
NECESSITY OF LETTING
OUT MANY MEN AVERTED
Slash of 10 per Cent Is To Be
Made in Almost Every En-
veIope in all DeptS.

A totally new scheme TO cut down
S93, 900 in the expenses of the city and
county was agreed upon at meeting
OF the supervisors yesterday which
lasted several hours.
A 10 per cent cut is to be made in
the salaries of all city and county em-s
ployes, with few exception, who re
ceiye over $50 moath. This scheme,
worked out by Supervisor NJ c. Pa
checo, was gone over and approved at
the meeting yesterday, and an amend
ed budget, providing for the cuts is
expected 10 be introduced tonight
when the city fathers convene again.
BY means of this cut, 3S city and
county employees who were to be let
out, will retain their places, and SSH
425S will be saved by the city and
county in the next nine months. All
the supervisors present-Pacheco, Nc
Clellan, Wolter, Hardesty and Mark
ham approved the new scheme. VOL
ter at the last moment opposing It
The road and engineering depart.
ment and the Kapiolani park employees
are the ones exempted from the cut
For the nine months the reductions
will mean a saving of 1,75S. and for
the three months of this period. $21.-
$50. The saving In donations and the
elimination of city and county nurse
will add sS.775 for the three A1oIths
BY following out the scheme out
lined by Supervisor Pacheco, which
calls for all road work in the next
period to be done out of money igl
4r.ar ont frrr1 u
saving for the nine months will
amount to. $9S,75S. which Is 5000 tn
excess of the amount needed to meet
che deficit. Forty-se7en thousand dol
lars will be saved out of the general
fund by this transfer.
Under the old scheme, which called
for the elimination of SS city and coun.
ty employees, saving OF $5S.91S would
have been made in the nine months,
but in making It risk of Gripping
the departments was incurred.
The old scheme also called for the
transfer of all road work from the
general fund to the permanent i'm.
provement fund, and in addition to
eliminating employees, it cut down the
maintenance allowances of the differ
ent departments. The budget, as
agreed upon now, only touches the
maintenances appropriations lightly.
The garbage department is reduced
from $4,000 a month to 1880, the elec-
trio light department, from $1,000 tc
$500, and the fire department from
500 to $500,
This new plan does away with the
necessity of discharging any men. Be
fore, 1t was agreed that the following
should be let out: six firefnen, 10
bandmen, three interpreters, 13 police.
men, one auditors clerk, one county
clerks clerk, one meat inspector and
one milk inspector, two garbage fee
collectors and one plumbing inspector.
The supervisors are meeting this
afternoon, once more going over the
budget and attempting to get it settled
that il may be introduced at the meet;
ing this evening. Supervisor Petrt /
who was not present at the caucus yes
terday, is on hand this afternoon and
is voicing some opposition to the per-
centage cut plan. Other opposition,
too. is asserting itself.
Chief OF the Fire Department
Charles Thurston spoke against the
percentage plan. He told the super
visors frankly that he IS opposed to
IL, and would rather eliminate than
cut; but agreed to abide by their de
cision. The majority o; the board. de
spite Petrie's objections. is in favor,
UP to this time at least, of Pacheco's
plan.
Ii seems likely now that the board
will agree to 10 per cent cut in the
payroll appropriations for the depart
ments. and leave. it with the depart
ment heads whether to reduce the sal
aries or eliminate. or both.