The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-09-27
Ordinance Providing City's
Fiscal Year Expenses
Finally Agreed On.
RETRENCHMENT IN
ALL DEPARTMENTS
Measure Directs the Expen-
ditures of $3.50, ,697.5O
For the Next Year.

At a special meeting of the city com
missIoners, which was held yester-
day, three ordinances were passed,
one that providing automobile Ii
cense charges. one providing for
ad valorem taxes, and one providing
for the expenditures for the forth.
coming fiscal year, referred to as tha
budget ordinance This appropriates
the total sum of S269, ,697. go, divided
as follows
General expenses ... SIS, 900
Health department ... $3.50 -
Police department ..... 37,195
Fire department ........ 39.2S0
Street department ...... 47,432
Interest sinking fund :. 72,5oO
Water department ... 26,S1O
The total expenditures are about
$4,000 less than that of the past
year, when there was expended for
the general expenses of the city $40,-
720; health department, S9,9S0; police
department, Sal SOP; fire department,
$4,000; street department. 10000;
water department, S32,274.50. The in
terest and sinking fund appropriation
of course remains unchanged.
A number of the departments haze
been reduced. In fact about every
OtiC o0b kilS iiiS pd4 StllStl's lEc'S
hand of retrenchment. The health
department is reduced to foar sani
tary inspectors. who will be paid at
the rate Of S75 per month each; the
police department as a whole will
probably be the hardest hit. One
lieutenant, one captain, one clerk,
eighteen patrolmen, four mounted
officers, two desk sergeants, one de-
tail man, one license inspector and
detail man are provided for, practi-
cally all to get an increase of salary,
but they will be required to stand 12-
hour watches. The captain will be
paid S125 monthly; the lieutenant.
500; clerk. S125, patrolmen, $50;
mounted officers, including feed and
shoeing of horses, S98.50; desk SER
500, and license inspector and detail
man 500. Feeding prisoners, includ-
ing salary of cook, $500 per month.
The chief of fire department. gets
a slight increase of $40 per month.
He will be paid $125, while an equal
increase is allowed the assistant chief,
who will get 500 per month.
In the street department the cut
appears large from the fact that in
last years appropriation, there was
an item of more than $4,000 for sew.
er repairs and renewals. These pro-
visions and salaries are made: One
foreman at 800 per month; four.
drivers, at 81 per day; four drivers
for garbage wagons at 50 per day;
three sweepers at 81 per day; ona
driver for water wagon, at $65; eight
laborers, at So per day; one watchman'
and tender at $50; one carpenter, at
S65; for operation of crematory, one
man, at 5000, and one at $720 per
year. To care for sewers, one bee con
lighter, $50 per month; four sewer
workmen at s65.
Retrenching is also felt in the water
department, the expenses having
been cut about $4,000 per year. The
following provisions are made: Sup
erintendent, SITE per month; book
keeper and cashier, s125; meter clerk
and reader, $40; clerk, $50. Oper-
ating expenses of the plant are as
follows: One night watchman, SIS;
chief engineer, S125; assistant en-
gineer, $98; two firemen, $50 each;
teamster and yard man, $50. In
distribution department, one lineman,
$50; one lineman and helper, S75; ore
assistant meter department, SIS.
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