The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-12-28
EFFICIENCY CRY !,
SOUNDED AGAIN |
by SUPERVISORS
Single Has Plan For Consolidat-
ing Little Bureaus and Gain
In Time Saved
SIMPLIFY BOOKKEEPING
IS ANOTHER SUGGESTION
Rearrangement Of Committees
To Increase Effectiveness Is
Also Under Consideration

According to the program laid out
for theecoming year efficiency is going
to be the rule laid down by the super.
visors. for the rest of the county gov.
ernment.to follow.
II looks as If there Is to be consoli.
datiUn Of several Offices, and the drop.
ping of some of the deadwood which
has cluttered the work and impeded the
wheels of progress. A determined ef.
fort is to be made to do away with a
lot of needless clerical or so called
clerical help.
One Of the city dads was heard to
remark after the caucus the other eve
ming, "there seem to be a good many
men in the government employ who
think that their country owes them a
living. These to my mind are not good
citizens and hold a job only for the
pay there may be in it,
eve want efficiency. II was a plat.
1 form plank on whieh we were elected
and so far as I can see we have not
had it. Here we have been year in
office and are just getting to the pas
where we are finding out that we have
made bluhder in the matter of our
road department and have to have
change to make good"
Plans Consolidation
r. w. Single who has got right in.
to the going on the new program Is in
favor of the amalgamatiOn of the dit
ferent little bureaus under one head.
The county is meeting a great deal too
much overhead expense to his way of
thinking, and he is on a still hunt for
means to consolidate in some places
! and separate in others.
| Single says, "the roads and Gu
gineer's department should be separate
as they were when sam johnson was in
charge, and there is a possibility that
there may be changes in the locations
of the several Offices so as to get thHtn
closer together, thereby Eaving timE
and energy. Improvement could be
made if the treasurer and auditor wero
closer together and the road, water,
sewer and engineers departments
should he beside each other"
The Kapio|ani building, which is no.
partly occupied by the treasury, water
and sewer, engineers, garbage, park sn-
IPCiihlShucHIJ uuliuIHp anu pluInDlHR W.
spector 5 offices, may be used for the
\ housing of the treasury, auditors Of
flee and the water and sewer depart
ment Offices. If this change should b,
made the road and other little bureaus
of the county government will be put
up in the Mcintyre building, in the
rooms vacated by the auditor and the
purchasing agent.
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lot of the present bookkeeping and hay
ing installed in the auditor Office "A
bookkeeping department which will
care for all the bookkeeping done in
the municipality. AS it is now there
is lot of red tape and bother when
it comes to striking balances, as the
same system is not used in the audi
tor s office as is used in the water
works for instance. In the latter de.
paFtment a unit cost of things is ct
tempted and an appropriation may be
cut up into several different accounts
to accomplish this. The auditor and
treasurer know only the appropriation,
and for this reason a warrant drawn
against the appropriation is a charge
as far as it goes.
Another Suggestion
The arrangements of the committees
4 of the board is another Suggestion
made by one of the super iiaors lie
feels that the board should do its bust.
ness between its members and the com
mittees which constitute it. In this
way there would be no friction be.
tween n member of the board and
head of a department. The head of the
department under the direction Of the
committee under which he was serving
would be held strictly responsible by
the committee. If an individual mem
Der of the board should have anything
to say regarding the work of the indi-
vidual he would say ii TO the commit
tee members, and not to the man in
charge of work.
In the handling of emergency work
where a man has to use his own Judge
ment a great deal there would be no
need to call board meeting to have
things thrashed out. The COMMITTEES
would be appealed to, and it should be
understood that the committee recon-
mendatiOns would be followed by thu
other members of the board.