The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-02-01
SCHULTZ WON'T
Get BIG RAISE
PROMISED HIM
Instead of $4,000 He Is Like
ly to Get 81, 600 or Less:
Through Council
TAX BOARDS LIST
CHANGES PLANNED
City Auditor Protests He
Doesn't Want Boost, But
One Is Recommended

Changes and reductions in the scale
| of salaries Of city officials which the
board of apportionment and taxation
decided to recommend, will be made
when the recommendation reaches the
ordinance committee of the common
council. In accordance with the
plans of the present administration,
the principal city officials will all re-
ceive raise in salary.
At the meeting Of the tax board
yesterday President William E. See
fey appointed Sigmund Loewith and
Frank d. Clark a committee to con-
fer with City Auditor Heating re-
garding the proposed increase. The
action was taken in view Of the pro-
posed charter amendment giving the
common council power to fix the sal
aries of all city officials. Salaries
of no city officials are fixed By char
ter at present. The increases which
the committee recommended yester-
day and which the board voted to
recommend to the common council
would call for an additional expen-
diture of SIG, 100 per year.
Under the schedule the mayor and
town clerk receive boosts Of $4,000
each. In the case Of the mayor this
schedule is likely to go through. The
| mayor. now receives $4,000 per year.
! There will be opposition to boosting
| the salary of town clerk from $4,000
| to $4,000 per year. The salary even
| tuallys will be fixed at $4,000 and may
| be made even less than this as the
| recording of vital statistics is to be
| taken from his office and placed with
| the board Of health under the. juris-
diction of the health officer.
Joseph Schultz, present incumbent
4of the office, is not in very good favor
with the administration because Of
the chaos and inefficiency which have
| existed in his office for months. The
records Of realty transfers are weeks
| behind and men who have occasion
| to do business with Ire office smile
when they consider the proposed
charter change in the assessors g
flee which requires the town clerk to
furnish a list of transfers of property
| the day after they are made in order
| that the block maps and the books in
the assessors office may be kept up
| to date.
At present it takes from three to
| five weeks before any realty transfer
1 document made can be recorded and
i returned to the owner by the town
] clerk. In New Haven, Hartford and
4 Waterbury where there has been a
correspondingly great increase in
land transfers these records are prop
erly kept up.
/ The increases in salaries recon-
mended by the tax board committee
/ yesterday are as follows:
City clerk. from $4,000 to $4,-
500; assistant city clerk, from $500
to $4,000; assistant town clerk, from
/ $1,000 to $4,000; tax collector, from
$4,000 to $4,000; assistant tax col
lector, from $500 to $4,000; director
of public works, from $4,000 to $4,-
900; clerk, from $1,000 to $4,000;
clerk board of contract and supply,
from $2.4O to $500; city treasurer,
from $1,000 to $4,000; city engineer,
from $4,000 to $1,000; city attorney.
from $4,000 to $4,000.
City Auditor Heating had expresse>
himself as satisfied with the salary
which he now receives, but the COM
mittee recommended an increase of
| $500 for him. Commissioner Buech-
Ter offered as a substitute to the rec
concentrations Of the tax board, the
following schedule which was not
adopted:
Mayor. $4,000; city clerk, $4,000;
assistant, $4,000 town clerk, $4,000;
assistant $4,000; tax collector, 3d.
500; assistant, $500; director of
| public works, $4,000; clerk, $4,000;
board of contract and supply clerk,
$500; city treasurer, $4,000; city
| auditor, $4,000; city engineer, $4,000;
city attorney, $4,000.
Mr.. Buechlers recommendation in
reality was a reduction in salary of
both the city auditor and the city at
torney.
! In number of transfers were made
from one department to another. 1t
was voted that in the future members
4 of the board will be informed several
days prior to the meeting as to the
amounts of proposed transfers and
the financial condition of the. depart
| ments in which it is proposed to
make the transfers.
The proposed increase in salaries
/ for the officials named above will not
be effective until April 1 if adopted
by the common council