Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-06-28
RIJNNIAGGOSTs
HAVE ATTENTION
OF SUPERVISORS
Board Considers Budget and
Decides to Grant Some of
Increases Asked


Three departments Of the city gov
ernment succeeded in having new
items inserted In the budget for the
coming half year at last nights meet
ing OF the supervisors. Others which
had been hopeful OF increases were
disappointed The few increases
made were smaller than anticipated
Supervisor Hollinger secured $500
for the purchase of Liliuokalani Gar
Gens, the park on the banks Of Nun.
anu stream which has been offered
TO the city by the civic federation for
that amount II cost the federation
| $4,000, Hollinger said, and the 500
asked for it represents the one note
of the purchase price left outstanding.
An appropriation of $500 for the
salary OF an attendant for the einer-
gency hospital went through. or the
500 salary sl5 q month is to be takea
from the regular revenue of the police
department. -. .....ss -. ~
The city attorney secured SITS for
office equipment. He asked $1500
but Supervisor Hatch said that the
present is no time for the city to buy
law library and the attorney would
have to be content with new type
writer and other miscellaneous equip
ment A request for an increase of
salary for the second deputy from
1886 to $3.50 a month was refused.
The word "extradition" was cut
from the $500 fund $4,000 was asked
for "extradition and criminal investi-
CATION" Supervisor Logan said that
the territory should do it's own ex.
traditing. The city spent more than
$500 in bringing Filipino back from
the coast this spring, as the attorney
general said it was a, municipal and
not a territorial expense. The super
visors have resented that and now
have made such an incident impos.
sible by providing no funds for ex.
tradition. -.
Engineers Salary Raised.
Supervisor Arnold succeeded in hav-
ing the city engineers salary raised
from 1925 to $3.50 a month, after an
effort to secure $500 for him. He
said that the usual salary of the
office, $500, had been promised Col
Inns when he took the Office last jan
uary, but the board paid no heed to
him until he came down to $3.50.
A request for q raise to 5000 each
of two assistant engineers and then
$500 for one and $175 for the other
failed. So did an effort to get $25
raise for the superintendent Of the
electric light plant, who now is paid
$500 and quarters. ..=s..-.::
The police and fire department pay
rolls went through as last year.
The item of $2490 for 5000 feet OF
fire hose, tentatively Inserted Monday
night, was passed over last night.
After few minutes of discussion
this evening the board will probably
adopt the financial program as it
stands and order it advertised.
Meeting is Prolonged. .* -: <: ~
A fifteen-minute recess was called
after the regular business of the even
ing was over to give the finance COM
Ihittee an opportunity to discuss sew
era1 items of the budget, but the re-
cess stretched itself into an hour, and
then an hour and a half. One after
another the heads of various commit |
tees and of different departm ents
were called before the committee
meeting in the mayors office and
questioned. Finally everyone came
into the corridor and then the meet
ing was called to order But it was |
soon evident that there had been mol
caucus, for there was no agreement !
on any one item of the budget. Votes
of to 8 often killed or carried an |
item. ~ ~. ~. 49,. ..."