The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-06-30
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MUNICIPAL BUDGET
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Open Meeting Plan Short-llved
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: Chamber Session 30
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BUT EVEN THEN THEY
CANNOT GET TOGETHER
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Arnold Fights Hard For Salary
increases But Only City
Engineer Profits a,

With Supervisor Logan In the chair,
the supervisors held very lengthy
and not at all harmonious session last
night I'M an effort to settle budget for
the coming financial period, The, lid
was held down on increases Of salarips,
against q very strenuous fight put up
Ply Supervisor Arnold for increases, and
the board showed a strong disposition
| to stick by the proposition, made in
a long argument by Supervisor Hatch,
that while the salary schedules were
mot fair, !" the, city amply hasn't the
J money to make them fair, and, o.
Supervisor Hollinger interpolated dur.
ing Hitch 3 apology for opposing in
creases, it must act according to the
funds in sight. .. -,
Star Chamber Methods Again
I The open meeting discussion Of
business was promptly abandoned when
J the board reached the business of dis.
eusang the budget. A, recess Of fifteen
d Of considering in committed, the various
! items Of the budget. The finance com
mittee, and, the road committee, retired
i for conference, and the fifteen min.
utes recess was an hours recess. II
' WIS u CduCub W I'll hulchbbl anu put
poses, except, as was shown when the
board came together later, those at
J tending were not bound by its deei-
4 sions, whatever they were-and as to
that there was nothing definite.
Arnold Fights For Raises
Arnold, when the open meeting was
resumed, made a, very Persistent fight
for raises of salaries in several depart
ments. Especially he fought for an In.
| crease in the pay Of the city engineer,
asking that the salary, 81 George, N.
Collins be made $500 month He can
ed attention to the fact that previous
holders Of the ONCE, had been given
that salary, and after roasting. their
administrations he highly complimented
City Engineer Collins on his work In
the department.
Supervisor Larsen responded to Ar.
mold 3 motion to increase the salary Of
the head Of the engineers Department.
with an amendment to provide that all
| the heads Of departments be similarly
Increased. 'f.s;, y" W - lSa+ t"'
There was no second either TO Arm
old's motion for an increase or to the
Larsen amendment, and after q lot Of
desultory discussion HollingeT moved
that the engineers SALARY be made
$3.50 a month, and this was carried.
Arnold returned TO the attack with
motion for an increase in salaries Of
subordinates in the engineers depart
ment. The discussion showed, again,
that the caucus had left the board
much divided, for it was. lost by vote
of three to four. In fact, the commit.
tee meeting was quite stormy one,
and showed that the supervisors are
having lot Of difficulty In getting
together on the economy progress.
Simply Haven't the Money
Following protest by Supervisor
AHA against any salary raises, Hatch
made a statement which probably ef-
pressed the sense Of the board. AHA
said that the people would suffer IL
the expenses were raised, and that he
rlidn z approve Of any raises unless
there were funds on hand.
"This payroll" said Hatch, "is I'M
doubleday unfair and wrong. But we
are powerless to make IL fair. The
advances which are proposed are justi-
fed; but, gentlemen, we have not the
money We all realize that some OF
these officials are not. being paid what
they deserve, but what can we do
about itf The simple fact 10 that the
city has not the money to do what we
would like to do, In paying its good
employees the salaries we may think
they deserve"
One Of the propositions considered
in committee is substantial reduction
, in the "trafiie officer" service at the
; street corners Of Honolulu. This Is op.
posed by the police COMMITTEES mem,
bers. Hutch made proposition that
the number Of traffic policemen be ma
Eterially reduced, and II Is likely that
some reduction win be In the allowance
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