Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-10-29
Waters Firm on Bus Issue;
VIII See Matter through
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Now down to the money end of it..
These men ave not been told what
they are to receive any more than
they cannot expect III to pay them
more than a fair salary to start, with
IN the limits of our receipts. Now,
being chairman of the finance com
mittee, Mr.. Wilson should know hat I
at least know that all money from
Whatever sources obtained, must go
into the general fund and there stay.
L am surprised at Mr.. Wilson,, how
ever, with his eight years of exper-
fence in the city council that he should
say there is no way of paying these
two men. l was fully aware of a way
when l put~the men on and with due
respect to our city attorneys opinion,
the contingent account has a balance
of approximately "a, 900. 90 or will
have as of November 1st, 1919. We
have but n Month to go before we
can ransfer our accounts to help out
the short accounts. If the police &C.
count has any surplus in December
and the contingent account is short it
can be transferred.
Il claim thai this matter is an
emergency or contingent item and
should be paid out of the contingent
account which is supervised by the
judiciary committee, the same account
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being paid out of n for the same
reason, no provision having been made
for this in the police or any other &C
count.
II maintain that the police com
mittee have no jurisdiction over these
bus inspectors. They have jurisdiction
over traffic points such as the intersec-
ton of streets. and these are taken
care of now by our traffic officers.
The hl1a hvISipaSc ic Cof1n q hino u antiro-
ly new and to my knowledge, a con-
tingent item to-day. When our next
budget is made up, a new account
known as an Improvement account"
should be provided for to take care of
this business.
I'm conclusion I want to state that
l was given the authority by the
Board of Aldermen to go ahead with
the bus work and push it through to
completion so I do not feel that L am
out of order in the least. Will City
Attorney Goldberger kindly explain
to the public why it has taken him
three years to find out thai it takes
the confirmation of the Council to
legally appoint inspectors when they
nave been put in by the respective
chairman and paid without any con-
frmation of the council for the past
two years, to my knowledge"
After reading the first edition of
today's NEWS in which appeared the
account of Alderman Waters reply
to Alderman Wilson's statement of
! yesterday, Alderman Wilson said:
"Who is going to pay the newly
appointed bus inspectors? That is all
l ask"
A chairman of any committee I
have no inspectors or any n else
working under me not authorized by
the council. Furthermore that I
know of no other chairman or any
other committee who has authorized
the placing of inspectors without
funds in his appropriation to pay for
them. Also in every instance when
the chairman of the judiciary COM
mittee has asked for cooperation
from myself as a member of that
committee he has received my heart
lest support.
II also consult with him on any
move which 1 take in reference to
other city work of which I am the
chairman"