Arizona republican., 1915-02-17
MANAGER W. A. PARISH
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 653.53 over and above the cost of operation and maintenance of the city for the same five months of 1913. Denial is also made that the man ager can slow nothing in achieve ment or increased benefit to the city to justify any increased cost uf oper- ation.
 However, states Manager Parish. this manager admits that there W&s an increase in the cost of mainte- nance and operation of the city gov ernment of Phoenix during the five months ending December l, 1914, over and above the cost of operation and maintenance of said government for the corresponding five months of 1913. to the amount of $9,S73.S9, and no more; and this manager in that connection says that the said in crease of s9S73S9 as aforesaid. wa occasioned by many causes; chiefly, because of the change from one form of government to another, which necessarily required time and eX pense to properly organize an ef- fective working force to carry out the changed conditinos of govern ment To illustrate the new charter created many offices which did not exist under the old charter, and the commission, by ordinance. fixed the salaries of all officers of the city; and so fixed by ordinance, amounted 1 to $14416 66 for the five months beginning July 1 and ending Decem Der l, 1914, as against a salary list of $7,45O for the corresponding period l of 1913 under the old charter, an in crease of $G,9G666 for this item alone In other words, this item alone in 1 8 large measure offsets the increased cost of maintenance and operation of the city. in all it's branches, for that 1 eriod. Again the purchase of new 1 fire equipment and the construction l of two new fire stations required an l increase in the force of the paid fire 1 department to properly handle. main l tain and conduct the same. and the | increased cost of the fire department l for the said five months beginning Jply 1 and ending December l, 1914, thus occasoned, was $2.337.36 over 1 the corresponding period of 1913. Again unavoidable circumstances re l cuired the increase of the force of the police department to nearly double it's former number. This in crease of force increased the cost of ! IL months ending December l, 1914 I$4,090.72 over and above the cost of the police department for the cor lrespondIng months of the year 1913 las is more specifically shown in the Ianswer ta the second preamble. Again the cost of printing the city ordin- Iahces of the commission for the five months ending December 1, 1914, eX- loeeded the cost of printing ordinances of the common council for the five corresponding months of 1913, $68l S9 (which increased cost was necessi lt&ted by the provisions of the new city charter. Again $425 was paid for per diem compensation to the mayor and members of the comms
 
 lcember 1, 1911, while no such eN- lpcnse was required or incurred under the old charter. And this manage: further says that the total expense land cost of the operation of the city lgoVernment of Phoenix. embracing all it's departments, for the five months ending December 1, 1914, amounted To $1l1. .l99.94, while the maintenance of the city government for the five corresponding months of 191. lamounted to $101 326.07, which shows the above increase of $9,S73.S9; but lthat, as a matter of fact, instead ol Ian increase occurring in the cost oi loperation of the city government ot I$9,S73S9 as shown above. there was Ia decrease in the ordinary expense. of operation of the city government as compared with the correspondine five months of 1913, of over fiv. thousand dollars, when the increase ll the police department, the increase in the fire department, the increase in the salaries of officers, the in
 erase in the cost of printing ordi
 nanceS and the compensation Of th' mayor and commissioners. as abov' 1shown. are taken into consideration
 which expenditures could not b' avoided by this manager. In othe
 words, if conditions as they existed
 Curing the five months ending De
 cember l. 1913, had continued durn,
 the five months ending December 1914. there would have been a de
 crease in the cost eff operation O
 the city government of over fiv
 thousand dollars, and the fact is tha
 there Las been a general decrease il
 tine expenses of the operation am
 maintenance of the city government
 since the first day of July, 1914, t
 the present time. despite the con
 tinued growth of the city, which ha
 correspondingly and necessarily in
 creased the expenses of maintenanc
 and operation of the city; for in