New Britain herald., 1918-01-17
More Charity Criticism.

monthly payrOllS before the month IS up. He said that it has been the cus- tom of the department to make out the payroll early to avoid delay, but in case any of the workers Ashould get through in the interim the city
 would lose as, legally, the pay is the property of the payee as soon as the comptroller signs the checks. He also took exception to the charity board cutting down the salary of the new 1n- vestigator over that of the previous in cumbent on the grounds that all sal aries are fixed by the council and
 therefore the individual department
 has no right to cut the salaries Alder
 man Curtis also introduced resolu- ton providing that the charity depart
 ment make out it's payrolls from the
 18th of each month and prohibiting
 the board from paying money in ad-
 vance.
 Barn Report, Critical.
 The report of the Town Farm dairy
 barn investigation committee was critical in it's conclusion, although the members agreed that the barn is one
 of the best that could be built. The
 committee found that a total of ST.,
 O77.11 was spent for the barn but,
 it was set forth, if the Charity depart ment had not essayed to do the car
 penter work itself and had awarded
 the contract to the lowest bidder at
 $5,270 it would have been possible to
 build the barn within the price of
 $15,000. The committee further found
 that the charity board should have
 paid more attention to it's appropria-
 ton and should not have spent more money without applying for an ad- ditiona1 appropriation from the proper sources. The increased cost of the ,, barn was accounted for by the erec- ton of silos, retaining walls, gutters, paving, etc, which was not regarded as a part of the barn proper and which the charity board had intend- ed should be paid out of the general l fund. The Investigators also found that $8,0OO was appropriated for the l barn and the council had approved 1 bills of only $S,235.19 out of the 1 $17, ,077.11 expended.
 Want More Bremen.
 Regarding the petition for a new
 scale of wages for the fire department, | Chairman A. E. Magnell, in reply to l a query from Alderman 0. F. Curtis,
 said the board intends to ask for five 1 new firemen and will follow this up | each year in order to build up the de- l partment. The proposed police de- 1 partment raises, together with the | fire department recommendation as we'll as all other salary increases, ! were referred to the salary commit tee.
 The farm committee was also in- | structed to make a corrected and o1c t1,1 report of the finances and the crop. To Revise Salaries.
 A resolution received from AL
 derman Gorbach provided for 10 per cent salary increase for all city employees earning less than $1,500 i and devoting their entire time to their 1 jobs. Another resolution was re- ] ceived from Alderman Curtis, provid- l ing that the mayor name a special i committee of five to consider a com 1 plete salary readjustment. It also 1 provides for uniform time and me- 1 thod of paying city employees and | likewise suggests that all salaries be 1 fixed by the council rather than by 1 the respective boards where, in some
 instances, salaries are paid from ap- propriations.
 Alderman Curtis said he heartily
 agrees with the mayors views in op- 1 posing the salary increases and does not favor wholesale salary increases. ! In conclusion he said he hoped to be 1 able to work with the mayor to this end. It is proposed to name on this l special salary committee several in 1 telligent and reputable taxpayers as ] we'll as council members Council
 man McDonough favored g. change i that will automatically take care of ! itself and thought that any increases
 should be made only for one year
 and taken up each year anew as long
 as the emergency exists. The com