The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-25
City Budget Increased
 More Than 35 Per Cent.
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 l 512, 95s 92 The estimated receipts will be s877, ,4S56s leaving $2.135. .25 to be tra1sed by taxation and, as the amounts were apportioned an estimated balance of s51s. g.
 The balance would have been $6,- 51392 but Commissioners A. E. Mac- donald called attention to the Iact that no provision had been made for sewer wells and that streets where permanent pavement is to be laid the coming season it would be most neces- sary to provide for them He insist ed that s6OOo be used for this pur- spose. His motion prevailed 1 The board would not depart rom ithe time honored custom of pay as | you go,, for new school buildings. Having refused to appropriate money for 30 new firemen, which the admin istration desired to add to- the city 5 pay roll, the board also refused to ap- propriate money for Is new patroz- men in the police department, although the common council recently voted TO increase the force and to add one < lieutenant The $15.O56.75 which it ] ! was propoed to add to the appro- ! priations was cut to s10.0s76O. to pro- i vide for ten new men
 [ Sigmunda L1oewith led the fight i against the appointment of more po- 1tcemen. The board had an opinion from the city attorney, saving the men could not be appointed unless the i board appropriated the money to pay 5 1 them.
 MT. Loewith said: ssI do not be- lieve we need the men. Last year l we were told that when 43 men were added to the force we should have a reserve force and that no more new policemen would be needed for long time to come Now we are asked 4 be the same and this thing will go on forever believe we have policemen enough and 1t is time to halt 4 Norman Leeds said: T am opposs ! ed to increasing the police force. I1 some arrangement is made to proper fly divide and use the present force. we can have men on reserve duty all l the time In New York the police men have eight hours on regular duty. eight hours on reserve and eight Mo11rs off. This system could be installed here. Even then tine policemen would not be on duty long, nor would they put in as much time as the fire men. 2
 Messrs. Leeds and Dezso were op- l posed to increasing the present police force by one man even, and voted against any increase.
 1 That mysterious c1erkship at sal ary of $500 for the tax assessors was a subject of much discussion- None of the members of the board had ever $ heard of it. They had not been asked to grant money for it. Mayor Wilson would not explain where the ordin- ance originated He said l1esSund er- stood the assessors had asked for the clerical aid. After talking the prop. osition over for some time the mem bers of the board decided it had never Icome before them officially, so Jt was not Up to them to provide any money
 for the place.
 The board did not agree to give the
 mayor any money for his proposed
 public market places, one of which 1t 7-- -.-Lll -rs<-1-T on the triangular lot at Crescent ave nue, Willard and PeGnbrp4ze~ streets.
 The mayor did not know how much would be needed. 2 By vote of 6 to 5 the board turned down the proposition to spend s15 COG in extending the seawaM at Seaside park toward FayerWeaEher's island. II
 was said that the money was needed Li to save about s12.000 worth of filling : that has been dumped along the wall sI The board voted to ask the city en- 2 gineer to make a survey of the local q ity when the ice and snow is gone.
 By a vote of to 5 the board grant
 ed the appropriation of g., 360 for a
 white way,,s in the center of the city Commisaoner Armstrong opposed the
 plan. He said he thought the money !. could be better spent by distributing lights in other sections of the city E Commissioner Kirk sadd
 tsI am not in favor of this white T way 1SCW IL Is OILY pIOpOSs1Q IO 1lss II Fairfield avenue and Main street, but
 next year merchants from other sec s fions of the city will probably be here
 asking for the same thing They will want these Igh ts from Bulls Head to
 Seaside park and on all the side
 company has announced a. reduction 5 in the cost Of each light, cannot see
 where any saving comes in If we vote
 to add great many more to the lights we already have. T ann op-
 posed to the white way prop position.
 To the appropriation for lighting,
 the board added s2 86O for 130 new j Tungsten nights. Mir. Macdonald ex- : p1alned that it was planned to try l these lights for a year.
 The board chopped out a. proposed , appropriation for $40 for automobiles for use of the fire department conn mittee of the common council The proposed appropriation of $3, 50e for damage claims in the city attor-
 ney's department was cut to g, 5o0.
 Likewise $500 for the examination of patients was cut from the appropria- ton in the charities department. I The board did not allow amy new men in the fire department and al- lowed but 80 500 for new equipment fire alarm boxes, etc. The proposition
 for $500 for dredging off the city dock
 and other harlbor improvements also
 went out. The item of $4,OO0 for fire QepdEId16nL nlOpOT Idac0olS W1H<1n was recommended by the city auditor was allowed
 s When the board had finished it's
 work and the tax rate had been an
 nouneed the mayor with very gIum
 face arose and said:
 s.I wish to thank every member of
 the board and to ngratulate each
 and every one of you on the excellent
 manner in which you have met and
 conquered the shortcomings of years
 ago, when the tax rate was made
 football and the needs of the city
 passed over. congratulate you on
 having met every issue SquareIy
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