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

Three departments of the city gov
eminent 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 800
for the purchase of Liliuokalani Gar
6ens, the park on the banks of Nuu-
anu stream which has been offered
to the city by the civic federation for
that amount 1t 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 emer-
gency hospital went through. OF the
Sl09 salary SIS month is TO be taken
from the regular revenue of the police
department
The city attorney secured $175 for
office equipment He asked $500,
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 a new type,
writer and other miscellaneous equip.
ment. A request for an increase of
salary for the second deputy from
1926 to $3.50 a month was refused.
The word "extradition" was cut
from the $500 fund $4,000 was askedl
for "extradition and criminal investi-
CATION" Supervisor Logan said that
the territory should do its own eX-.
traditing. The city spent more than
$500 in bringing a Filipino back from
the coast this spring, as the attorney
general said 1t 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 1928 to $3.50 a month, after ain
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 raise to $500 each
of two assistant engineers and then
1900 for one and $175 for the other
failed So did an effort to get $50
raise for the superintendent of the
electric light plant, who now is paid
$500 and quarters
The police and fire department pay
rolls went through as last year.
The item of $1,000 for 5000 feet OF
fire hose, tentatively inserted Monday
night, was passed over last night.
After q few minutes OF discussion |
this evening the board will probably
adopt the financial program as It'll
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.
mittee an opportunity to discuss sew
eral 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 departments
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 no !
caucus, for there was no agreement |
on any one item of the budget. Votes
of 4 to often killed or carried an
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