The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-03-09
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budget. was reported as an error and
; the correction made The number of
nremen now appearing In the docu-
Inent Is ~. and the appropriation
Tor the department Is raised from.
= *222, 1867 SO to S225.1S0 80. In regard
10 the police department where Scr
,geant Bradley. OF the traffic squad,
seems 40 have reen unprovided for.
another error was corrected, giving
the department 172 patrolmen instead
or III. Also. the number of tanitors
IN this department. was changed from
FIVE to six.
Street Cleaners Adjusted.
In the street cleaning department.
40 men, 313 days ar $3.50 per dav,
are provided for instead of the 1s6
men as previously states raising the
payroll OF this department soc
$4,000. The City home. Virginia hos.
pital and Pine camp had registe led
no complaint. and their appropriI-
tons were left intact In the amornt
set aside for markets. the rate OF Ave
/ sweepers was changed from $3.50 per
day to S2.15 per day. making a slight
change in the appropriations. The
keeper of st. John s cemetery. who
also seems to have been overlooked
when the budget was made UP, was
cared fot and placed again on the
pay roll,
- Under the electric plant head Mr.
English moved to change sttpula-
ton that laid out $12.50o for the
installation of street AMI alley lights
to replace gas lamps" He thought
that this should read lighting by gas
or electric light" but his suggestion
failed to carry, the clause being
amended by adding the privilege Of
using this money fo- the paw roll and
expenses of replacing gas lamps.
The provision that has created no
little commotion in city departments.
and which deals with restrictions on
the use of expenses" was tightly
amended to come within charte~ pro-
visions of the city. AS II stood, II
seemed to infringe upon charter rights
In that it did not allow the various
department heads to spend their mon
ey as they should see At, but laid down
special schedules for their exlcndi-
lures. As amended by the corlmit-
tee, and adopted the provision now
reads: Provided further that no de-
partment nor any board shall use the
appropriation for expenses for salary
or wages of any employe. nor shaii
any new positions or offices be Gre
ated without the approval of the city
council. except that this provision
shall not be applicable to the depart
ments under the administrative board.
Increases Are Overcome
With the exception Of these Few al
terations. the budget was adopted as
II first appeared In order 10 over
come the Increase In approrri atoms
in the police, street cleaning. fire de-
partments, and others, tt was neces-
sary 10 retrench In some other de-
partment. and the amount set aside
for street grading damages was re-
duced from 5000 to IS 0of: ex-
penses and improvements of ceme-
teries came down from 1900 q s3,-
54S.6o; the contingent fund was re-
dueed from s2.SS327 to s1S621". and
the lowered wage of FIVE market
sweepers served to make good tns ad-
ditlonal amounts laid out for the cor
reCtion Of the errors Noted.
Great satisfaction with the budget
was expressed by all members al the
council last night, and 1t WAS said
that the paper Will pass the hoa,1 or
aldermen next week without a hitch
The health department WIS relieved
OF some of IT.. difficulty by a provision
that 1t might use it's expense account
for the salaries and wages needed for
the conduct OF it's work when tbs oc-
cason demanded. This re!teyc, p~ac-
tically the last of the difficulties which
could be relieved, since the cortmtt-
tee stated II was impossible to APP