The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-02-07
CITY COUNCIL NOTES.

The council met in regular session
Monday evening. Twelve OF the TO ur
teen men were in their seats, Smugler
and Sladky being absent
The question of municipal visiting
nurse created some discussion. The
committee on sanitation had up pro-
position to employ visiting nurse at a
salary not exceeding $50 per month.
Schellin didn't like it, he said, because
the salary had not been provided for in
the budget last fall. His attention was
called to the fact that he has been try
ing to purchase thousands OF dollars
worth of street equipment when the
cost had not been specifically provided
for. The city attorney informed them,
as they have often been told in the
past, that the budget is merely an In
formal estimate of expected expenses
for tax raising purposes ane not bind
ing as to expenditures. The nurse
project was debated quite heatedly and
carried 5 to after which the newt
able question of two-thirds vote be-
ing necessary was raised, The attorney
thought it was not necessary and that
under the statutes the Board of Health
is empowered to employ a visiting
nurse without asking the council about
it. 1t will probsbly be done that way.
The election officers at the late prim-
ary were allowed S4 each.
Tradesmen who have long been la
boring under the delusion that the city
will pay all bills of persons in quaran-
tine can now rearrange their ideas.
This practice, admittedly illegal for
years, has come to an end. The coun-
Gil turned down 1921 bill OF Herman
Vetter, proprietor, of hotel lately
quarantined. The aldermen say small
pox patients have no more right to live
at the city's expense than sufferer
from rhuematism or the pip.
City Engineer Alter had in a recon-
mendation that w. o. Bahr, sewer
contractor, be allowed $l99 Is for sex
tras" on a job recently completed.
Schenian objected to the procedure and
insisted that Bahr be required to file
claim and have the same go through
the regular routine. The engineer and
chairman of sanitation, McKeough,
O. K. d the bill but that wasn't Schen-
ian's point. He wanted the thing to
come in according to Hoyle. Schenian
and McKeough had spirited tilt which
required ine mayor to rap for order.
Schuetze said the method pursued was
time honored and the contractor needs
the money but Schenian was obdurate
in insistence upon proper procedure
and 8 of the II backed him up. So the
contractor will have to file an itemized
verified claim in the regular manner if
he wants his $l99.75.
Street Commissioner Vollendorf had
on file the annual balance sheet Of the
municipal gravel pit. According to
this, the city last year took out OF the
pit 2054 yards of crushed stone and
2244 yards of gravel. In the II years
OF ownership the city has taken out of
the pit street material worth 81 times
the Original cost OF the pit, S22OO, and
this is reached by allowing the value OF
gravel at the value of the time of pur-
chase, II cents per yard, although it
would now cost 25 cents per yard.
There was an early getaway, but,
alas, it was fuelless Monday and DR..
Garfield in far away Washington had
closed all the places customarily hon
ored by more or less brief visits of city
statesmen en- route to their homes and
for the first time, probably, in Manito-
woes 80 years of municipal history, the
aldermen had nothing after a council
meeting but invigorating atmosphere
to tighten the burdens OF official cares.