Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-12-22
NO borrowing
NECESSARY FOR
new CITY HALL
Logan Has Plan to Use Cash
Basis Fund if Legislature
Will Pass Enabling Act
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This Is s5SoS year, or equal to 6
per cent per annum on $4,000, which
is close to the amount generally con-
sidered right for respectable city
hall. Besides this outgo Of cash there
is great loss of efficiency and wastage
from the scattering Of departments
and offices. It would therefore ap.
pear to be good business to issue mu.
nicipal bonds for erecting city hall,
If there was no other way to effect
the object, which ! think there is.
Il would suggest a portion of the
cash basis fund, which will not be
needed after June 30, 1917, owing to
the. change of term of the municipal
government taking place from that
date, be used for the building fund
instead of it's original purpose. By
that time the fund will have reached
the maximum set by the statute, or
$4,000 or $4,000 more than the
amount II Is assumed the municipal
building should cost
with such remainder of the cash
basis fund and license collections just
coming in, there would need to be very
little registering of warrants until the
second half-yearly collection Of taxes
in November, when everything could
be cleared up and the treasury, with
fair management, placed upon cash
basis within the following six-month
period without any revolving fund.
Debt Of City Small.
Honolulu has no debt excepting
what has been saddled upon it by the
territory, on account of the loan fund
commission and the water and sewer
works, and 1t would be greatly 20 its
credit II il should get along without
incurring any new Indebtedness ex-
cepting for water and sewers. Water
under proper management vii. pay
back all that may be spent upon 1t
and sewers are an absolute necessity
from a sanitary point nf view.
Another objection to building
fund lean is that it involves the trou-
BILE and expense of a plebiscite, with
the risk of defeat or delay of the
project.
@In the meantime, while the Ques-
ton of financing the cost is being dis
/ think the mayor and board
Of supervisors should not allow the
governor or anybody else to surpass
them in active interest in the scheme.
While the governor is working on the
site matter, the city government
should be preparing all the prelim.
mary data. Every department should
be diracted to submit to the board
statements Of its space requiremnts
Offer Prize for Plans.
"The board of supervisors ought TO |
offer substantial prize for the best
design, and arrange
ments for preparing the plans and spe-
cifications should be pushed.
"Unless the building is TO be erect |
ed by means of loan, authorized by |
the 1917 legislative session |
will have to be awaited for an enab- |
ing act to use the cash basis fund or |
employ some other method. This |
means an interval of is or Is months |
which perhaps Is not too long for all |
the necessary preliminaries.
irwin Site News Pieases,
Other officials of the city and coun- |
" EXPRESS general satisfaction today |
over the news OF the Irwin site pur
chase Tor federal building as pub
ished yesterday in the Star-Bulletin. /
Mayor Lane says that the site is
good one for civic center, and that |
t viii be especially valuable in being
near the territorial buildings. He has
lot yet expressed himself on the ad
disability of placing a city hall on the
Core lot. ~
Supervisor Hollinger thinks the
Gore lot about the only one available
or such building. He thinks 1t viii
De hard propc sition to move Prin
less Theresa, from the lot, possession
being nine points of the law.
I'VE certainly need new city hall,
,ays Hollinger, "and 1t should be one
which will hold all the departments
Of the city, I should not favor put
ing up building that will cost less
han s150,000. We are paying as much
.ent on the buildings that we now use
is the interest at 6 per cent on $780,
I0C would be each year.
my model OF a city hall is the one
It Oakland" continues Hollinger
They have all of the departments in
me building, including the jail, which
S placed on the top floor"
Supervisor AHA thinks 100000
building would be sufficient but he
loes not favor putting 1t on the Gore
ite AHA would, place It on the oppo-
lite side of King between Richards
nd Alakea streets, which he believes
S much more favorable location.
Harry Murray, manager of the city
water department remarks that the
Iews from Washington yesterday is
GOD news for Honolulu. He says that
new municipal hall is much needed,
md ba links with favor IN tha Gore