The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-06-30
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Raising Of cry employees salaries,
instead Of .cpts which the employees
Mere worrying about 1 Adnth Sao,
was me result u the finsa sonsldera.
tion. of the city budget for the gssln.
ing six month"; period, ct . spscial
meeting Of the, board held Az half.
past Ave o'clock yestefday afterhooh
end lasting until after segef. when
the board passed the budget ON first
reading and adjourned TO ne1t Mon,
day evening f6f confederation 81 fhe
budget on second reading. 4
2 Arnold opened the discussion by re.
uewing his fight for iAcfea6es IN the
department OF the city engineer, and
he won, against an earnest prOfast by
Supervisor Hornet who voted 81 ho,, ali
through the session on The rsises. t
lftWe are cutting the baud down
$500 q month, 1'he said, 4, and IL Il 4
shame for sds tO'bs, iraiang ether sal.
Men should Get rhsir worn =
Holiihger said that IL the sity was
employing engineers and other men
worth 5000 or more a. nhoAth they
should be paid no less.sfqn u 4
Hatch disposed 81 the band propo.
sition by q motion 20 restuse the band
item to the original sum Of t2245 a
month, reversing the aetion agreed
upon In committees TO cut $500 q.
month out of this appropriately. In,
making his motion Hatch laafd that he
had come to the conclpsfoh that "tho
business COMMUNITY OF Honsiulu did
not want economy, y IA spite OF all the
discussion in the pressl abOut saving
public fnnds. He said thhts he he'd
gone into fight for y ee6n6tny ana
for saving all aroand but fhat he AID.
MT think ahe D business community
wanted it, business men did not want
the band cut down. Va n, Il s3td NJ
awe may get further expressicns Of
public sentiment, ~ he said. iltbut / now
move 20 restore this, band itemt,'
Hatch intellectually highly compli.
mented TIE band and its aeader. Z !.
3 Later, Hitch pre5eated . schedule
of new salaries, which provides for
taises-in q number ofseasss; and it was
salaries should BE Easfsap,. / I
The situation calls for 4 general
equalization of salaries, y he said,
"though cannot urge that il be ear,
ried into effect before January IL
Salaries should be fixed more eauit.
ably according. to the services we akgS
receiving. Tha rlegisiature, hy fixi&e1
salaries in some cases, ahas made $250
q month the standard for heads Of ds.
and I'M cases where il did
not fix the salary we should bring our
schedule updt that standafd. ~ !, III
Hatch proposed III $3.50 n month
class Of employees; which he said
should include the city clerk, auditor,
treasurer, sheriff, ehisf iof the dire de-
partment, superintendent Of the elect
rie light plant and zsupefl htendent bf
the water works This calls for 4
raise Of twenty.fiye dollars for the |
fire, chief and also, for the tsdperinten-
dent of .iWatefworks Bstsig p. ~ 1
Ia a elassl tSp, be- paid $225 Hatch
placed the deputy shditor, deputy \
clerk, deputy, sheriff, city physician
and clerk ioft;the first eine6it court.
The raises called for by his proposi. \
ton are twents-fiSe dollars q month
each for the deputy clerk, clerk Of che
circuit court deputy, treasurer, band.
master ana yinspec tors or garbage; and
fifteen dollars fDr the Assistant en-.
gineer of the Saterworks department. |
With Horner ssopposibg, tho PROPOSE.
ton was syhregsd no thgga.i ! /
Passes FIRST Reaafnes t,-ab d., I'll
F. The budget was first passed in com
mittee of The lwhoie, with, Hollinger
in the chair Then Al was passed for, |
mally by the. hoard Oh. ;first reading
and ordered to print. y; nj appears in
full in this issue, OF The Advertiser.
It probably VIII be parsed, on second |
resdirg,s EitAo few ebenReA.sf