Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-07-18

Receipt of an opinion from City
ATTORNEY Leo Goldberger advising
the board that it cannot legally hire
teams or men from Graham & Nc
. Keon to carry on the garbage COL
h lection.
Defeat of a resolution by Alder
man John j. Clark authorizing the
advertisement for bids on the gar
bage contract in order that the work
might be awarded to contractor.
A report of expenditures for the
FIRST two weeks of the municipal gar
bage collection trial showed the bllls
TO total S1,710 which is saving OF
$40 under the price which the alder
men have been paying on an average
to contractors.
A statement by Alderman Thomas
Patten, chairman of the street com
nittee. that municipal garbage col
lection will save the city as much
as $500 a month if given falr
chance and time to secure the nee
essary equipment.
The garbage situation continues ~
present serious problem 10 tne a.
dermen, despite the 1act tnat .e
ritv now has been doing it's own coi-
1ectine since the first of July OWING
N the fact that the city was not
equipped to go into garbage coilec-
tion at once Alderman Patten as
chairman or the street committee,
found il necessary to hire teams py
3 ti,,s day from Graham " Mcheon,
the contractors who formerly oiu
+he garbage collecting. Addltlohai
men also were hired to do this work
Last night the bills for these ao-
a,tional men and the teams were
hafore the aldermen for action. Ira-
ran, &, McKeon had two bliis lor
S $3.50 FOR team hire. making a 'o'di
~ $3.50 which Aldermen Jonn D.
Clark John E. Sofield and BenJa-
min Riedy refused to vote lor'
,,'he other bills were ordered palo,
hut these three aldermen maintained
/ that the city attorney IN an opinio.
before the board, said the action Oh
the council was illegal in hlrlng
teams for this work and they wouio
he Guided by the city attorney
oninion. Alderman Clark said the
orieinal bill of $3.50 had been splil
into two bills in order that eacn
wight be under $500, and thus COME
within the law which makes II neo-
essary to get bids on work coslihe
mere than $500.
Alderman Clark said that az
though he was member OIL the
s.reet committee he had never peeh
asked TO meet with the other mem
hers of the committee TO act OH ~ tilis
matter. Instead. he SAID. tne
members held a meeting IN fete
McKeon's yard on Sunday morning,
JuIy Q and decided what to 40.
He also said he wanted to know now
+he hills before the board called
for services from July l when ne
tho board had not authorized me
street committee to go ahead With
the garbage collection until the
night of July 3.
The resolution could not be re-
troactiye. Mr. Clark said, and ADDED
that it was not resolution uatii
the MAYOR had acted upon 1t, eitner
approying it or vetoing 1t. Ihe
mayor, incidentally, returned the
resolution unapproved last night
and no effort was made by the board
To pass it over his veto, the major
ity realizing that sufficient votes
five in number. could not be mus
tered to pass it over his veto. AS
a result the returned resolution was
received and no action taken on it.
If an attempt had been made to
. pass the resolution over the mayors
veto it would have lost out as
Aldermen Sofield. Clark and Riedy
would have opposed it.
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