Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-12-22
WOODWORKING
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 s5S0S a year. or equal to
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. II would therefore ap
pear to be good business to issue mu
nicipal bonds for erecting city hall
it, 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 80, 1917, owing to
the change Of term Of the municipal
government taking place from that
date, be used for the building fund
instead of its 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 1t is assumed the municipal
building should4cost.
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 IIpon 1t by the
territory, on account of the loan fund
commission and the water and sewer
works, and ii would be greatly TO its
credit IL it should get along without
mourning 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 of view.
Another objection to a building
fund loan is that il 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
cussed, 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 preliIl.
mary data. Every department should
be directed to submit to the board
statements of its space requirements
Offer Prize for Plans.
"The board of supervisors ought, to
0ffer a substantial prize for the best
design, and arrange
nents for preparing the plans and spe-
should be pushed.
Unless the building is to be erect
I'd 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 ether method. This
means an interval of Ia or Is months
which perhaps is not too long for all
he necessary preliminaries.
irwin Site News Pleases.
Other officials of the city and coun-
y express general satisfaction today
,hase for federal building as pub
ished yesterday in the Star Bulletin.
Mayor Lane says that the site is
rood one for civic center. and that
t will be especially valuable in being
lear the territorial buildings. He has
lot yet expressed himself on the adj
disability of placing city hall on the
Soro lot. ~ -
Supervisor Hollinger thinks the
lore lot about the only one available
or such a building. He thinks it viii
,e a hard proDc sition to. move Prin-
esS Theresa. from the lot. possession
,eing nine Points of the, law
I'VE certainly need new city hall"
avs Hollinger. and it should be one
which will hold all the departments
# the city. 7 should not favor put
Ing upsa building that will cost less
han s15O,000. We are paying as much |
ent on the buildings that we now use
IS the interest at perscent on $780, |
0G would be each year.
my model of city hall is the one |
{ Oakland continues Hollinger. !
They have, all of the, departments in |
ne building. including the jail, which |
) placed on the top floor"
Supervisor AHA thinks a $4,000 |
uilding would be sufficient, but he |
oes not favor putting it on the Gore
lite. AHA would place it on the oppo-
lite side of King between Richards
nd AIakea streets, which he believes
; much more favorable location.
Harry Murray, manager of the city
'ater department remarks that the
ews from Washington yesterday is
GOD news for Honolulu. He says that
new municipal hall is much needed.
nd he looks with favor on the Gore