Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-14
HEAR DEMANDS
FORFUNDSAT
LONG SESSION
Aldermen Get Pleas From liz
brary Board and City Plan
Commission
ALSO HEALTH BOARD
Will Meet Again Tonight and
Tomorrow Night budget
Big Problem

In an effort to complete the 1928
city budget exclusive of the schools
the aldermen last night heard cep-
resentatives of the various munich
pal boards tell of their requirements
for the ensuing year, and then work.
ed over the figures until well after
midnight. Further budget meetings
will be held tonight and tomorrow
night by the aldermen in city hall in
order to complete the budget for its
first reading at Monday nights regu-
lar meeting.
If the budget ordinance is ready
for action Monday night and is pass
ed 1t will be advertised and a pub
lie hearing will be held on it the
same time it comes up for second
and third reading. The date for the
hearing will likely be fixed for De-
cember 20.
The entire City Plan Commission
appeared before the aldermen, Peter
G. Olsen, as their spokesman, ex-
planning what had been done dur
Ing the past year with their $2,500
appropriation and declaring that in
order to efficiently carry out its
work the commission would need
$4,000 or $1,000 next year, this
representing an increase of $500
or $500. Other city plan commits
sioners spoke, the members present
being Isaac Alpern, Ira r. Grouse,
Louis Rossi, Fred Ernst, William P.
Nolan and Arthur Sofield.
The health board, represented by
DR.. Charles I. Silk. Edward H. Dilts
and Benjamin Goldbsrger, asked for
an appropriation of about $34,500
for 1928, this being approximately
$1,000 more than their allotment for
this year. The principal item in
cluded in next years proposed
health board budget, representing
an increased cost of about $4,000, is
the innovation of the Schick test
among the school children of the
city to prevent diphtheria. DR.. Silk
explained that this is a most impor-
tant step and something which
|should be done to protect the lives
of the school children. Consent has
already been secured from about e.
TOO parents to apply the test, he
said, if the aldermen furnish the
health board with the funds neces-
sary to do this work
Louis M. Rossi, president of the
trustees of the public library asked
for $23,430 this being an increase
of about $4,000 over this years
appropriation, he submitting the fol-
lowing letter to the board:
To the Honorable Board of
Aldermen of the City of
Perth Amboy.
Gentlemen:
The public library is the most uni
versally used public building in the
city and in addition to its use as
civic center distributes approximate
man, woman and child of our popu-
lation.
This institution is performing an
extremely important work in the
development of the city, notwlth-
standing the fact that it has. for
years past, labored under a heavy
financial handicap.
1t would seem tina tthe board OF
library trustees have failed in very
important part of their duties since,
up to the present, they have not sue
ceeded in convincing the members
of the board of aldermen of the i'm
mensely real value of the library to
the city.
The library, as noted above, dis
tributes approximately three books
per person of total population. The
children, our future men and wo-
men, have borrowed as high as 500
books in one afternoon.
1t was the practice to maintain
class room libraries in the pubic
schools, but owing to the heavy de-
mand and scarcity of books. It has
become necessary to call back all
books so as to have larger sup
ply for the children who come to
the library building.
This Is a serious, but unavoidable
loss to our educational system and
even yet many children leave the
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,ass u.,ra rsoune. Sactffce Frank Van