Arizona republican., 1915-03-01
REPLY IF MANAGER PARISH GOES
 FULLY |NTO ALL CHARGES FILED

for the five months beginning July l and ending December l, 1914, as against salary list of $7,45O for the corresponding period of 1913 under the old charter, an increase of $6,- S6G.66 for this item alone. In other words, this item alone in d large measure offsets the increased cost city, in all it's branches, for that period. Again, the purchase of new fire equipment and the construction of two new fire stations required an increase in the force of the paid fire department to properly handle, maintain and conduct the same, and the increased cost of the fire de partment for the said five months beginning July 1 and ending Decem- Der, l, 1914, thus accustomed, was s. 33i.36 over the corresponding period of 1913. Again unavoidable circum- stances required the increase of the force of the police department to nearly double it's former number. This increase of force increased the
 
 the live months ending December l, 1914, S4,690.72 over and above the cost of the police department for the corresponding months of the year 1913, as is more specifically shown in the answer to the second pre- amble. Again. the cost of printing ordinances of the commission for the five months ending December l, 1914, exceeded the cost of printing ordin- ances of the common council for the five corresponding months of 1913 $6S1S9, which increased cost was ne cessitated by the provisions of the new city charter. Again, $425 was paid for per diem compensation to the mayor and members of the com nlsision for the five months ending December l, 1914, while no such eX- pense was required or incurred un- der the old charter And this man aser further says that the total ex- pense and cost of the operation of the city government of Phoenix, embracing all it's departments, for the five months ending December 1. 1914, amounted tO $111,11996: while the maintenance of the city gov crnment for the five corresponding months of 1913 amounted to SOL 32G.07 which shows the above in- crease of $9,S73.S9. but that. as a matter of fact, instead of an increase occurring in the cost of operation of the city government of $9,S73.S9, as shown above. there was a de- crease in the ordinary expenses of operation of the city government, as compared with the corresponding five months of 1913. or over five thous- and dollars. when the increase in the police department. the increase in the fire department, the increase in the salaries of the officers, the in- crease in the cost of printing or dinances, and the compensation of the mayor and commissioners, as above shown, are taken into con sideration, which expenditures could not be avoided by this manager. In other words, if conditions as they existed during the five months end ing December 1, 1913 had continued during the five months ending De cember l, 1914, there would have been a decrease in the cost of op- cration of the city government of over five thousand dollars; and the fact is that there has been a general decrease in the expenses of the op- eratiOn and maintenance of the city government since the first day of July 1914, to the present time. des pite the continued growth of the city. which has correspondingly and necessarily increased the expenses of maintenance and operation of the city. for instance, in the water de- partment, for said period, there was pumped 10S,246,000 gallons of water 1 in excess of the number of gallons of water pumped during the core spending five months of the pre- ViousNyear.
 This manager, answering preamble II of said form of resolution, says that there has been an increase in the cost of operation of the police department for the five months end ! ing December 1, 1914, as compared with the cost of operation of the po- | lice department for the five months ending December 1, 1913, of $4 690. .72 :;