Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-09
TO RESTORE TREASURER'S SALARY
City Meeting Favor of Rasns His Compensation Orig ina Figure, $1,5oo Voters Chop s4,ooo From Esti-
 mate for Public Works Department. - =.

s@-F-. szH-t 1 paid for the collection tof garbage and ! ashes was for men and teams. I We are merely asking for the price l of. men and teams, said MT. Fellows.
 With references to the Increase in l wages, MT Gebrath said he knew of some men in the street department ] who are not getting any more. than 1 they. did five. years ago.
 MT. rFeIlows Said that the teamsters
 were getting s2.6o a day, With no loss time and that the, men who gather the garbage and ashes are getting $ for each day they work. 1 Mir. Gebrath moved that the items | be taken up for consideration sep- afateiy, tand his motion prevaEed. 7 The first item taken 1p was that of sSs.0oo for ordinary repairs and ex- peffses.
 Favored s4;ooo Reduction. | .Ex- Mayor, IT. C. Murphy took the floor He said that a. year ago he had urged the voters to vote a large ap
 propria ton for, permanent repairs and that at that time he had told them that 1 this year. the appropriation would be | less. No. S36.000 is asked. he said, in order to meet the extra pay. He moved that the appropriation be S32, : 1 OOO,. and his motion. was seconded AL 1 bert. T fBoardman. said that, if MT. F'el- 1 lows is spending that money well and that if he. needs ii he thought he ought to have it, and that he was of the
 
 MT. Murphy said he believed the ] money should be used for permanent | repairs. Henry C.. Peck asked [r. 1 Murphy if he considered a macadam don't, answered Mir. Murphy. I mean Hassam pavement or brick. I don't mean macadam at all ,- | MT. <Boardman said he believed that more attention should. be paid to side streets. :
 The meeting then made the. appro- priation s32,o00. Mir. Gebrathi asked why the sewers and catch basin estimate had not been | increased to take care. of increased | wages. Mir Fellows said that when l he took office that half of the a ppro- priation had been expended by the two months of the year and that he had managed to carry along the work with an -overdraft.
 1 Shave Maeadana Repairs. Mir. Murphy said he thought the es- ] timate for acadan1 re pairsg.-should be shaved so that more money could he used for permanent improvements. sure he could get the North Main l street appropriation he could get | along with less for macadam repairs.
 Patrick Bray, ST., wanted to know ments on Central avenue Mir Eel ] lows said that it cost about $500. MT Bray then volunteered the informa l tion that Central avenue was worse Boardman said that in justice to Mr Fellows that the roads are better since they have been repaired.
 Keep the Tax Rate Down. Before this appropria ton had been passed Felix Callahan said he thought the regular appropriations should be. voted on first and then the special a talk md made to keep the tax rate. down Ex-Mayor Murphy moved that the $10,OOO appropriations be made, and. that payment be made at. the rate of g 2>0eeea year for five years. The mo- tion was carried.
 Mfr. Peck moved that, the appropria- tion for macadam repairs be cut down to ss,000 and his motion was also carried. oiIins and sprinI<ins.. In regard to the SseoO estimate for eiling and sprinkling Dr. Patrick Cas- sidy wanted to know how much went for oil and how much for. water. Mir. Fellows said that it is hard to- sepa- rate the accounts. He would be will ing. to leave out the oiling if the peo- pie would stand for it. <. - .3
 MT. Boardman made a motion that the appropriation be s6,0o0 the same as last. year and his motion was car. ried.
 When the Warren, and Broad street sewer appropria ton came up for ac- ton it was moved that the s66o ap- propriation be made. Mir. Tanning amended the motion by adding Si75 to the appropriation. The appropria- ton was accordingly made ss64.24.
 Raise for the Bremen.
 A motion was made that the fire. department appropriation of S4B. 025 be mades J. J.. Shugrue asked why there was such an increase in. the es- innate for the fire department and was answered by Councilman Edward Crooks, who is member of the board of fire commissioners who said that high prices, need of water and chem ical hose, and needed increase for the firemen were responsible. He was strongly in favor of the increase for the firemen as he felt 1t was too much to expect them to work 21 hours a day, 2 days a mpntf,s the year round, for s2.75. He felt the pay ought to be s a day.
 Milo R. Waters amended the mo- tion making the appropriation s5s,- oo0. MT. Peck said he thought the fire department ought to have the in favor of. the raise .DrE Patrick Cassiry said the ire men should be properly housed and properly cared for and .he. was in fa- Sheridan. said he hoped: the meeting would Vote down the amendment It was voted dow hand the appropria- tion- was voted as asked for.
 When the meeting reached the ap- propriation foresthe salaries of the finance department Mir. Tanning, asked if this included the salary for the city treasurer. He was told it did. Str. Tanning then moved that the al%)- priatien be made. s5,2o0, the extra $500 to- be used to raise the: city .treasurer,s salary to $1.5e0. where it stood before it was reduced by the council recently. Mayor Brown. ruled that part of the l motion relating to thesuse of the extra for the salary of the treasurer was out of order but -said, he would entertain the motion to increase the appropria- tion to .s5.2o0. The motion was over Whelmingiy carried.
 A resolu ton introduced by, Corpora ton Counsel Amos A. Browning au- thorizes the council. to make tti1e ap- .propriations passed by the city. meet ing. The resolution was passed
 The special appropriations, $500 for home ca rdens and. Shn0 for rllay-,rf,ii rds