Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-01-06

streets, appropriation ~, OVU.UU, emer-
gency notes $2,669. 90, making a total
of 49, 6 90, from which account there
has been expended the sum of $9,716.33.
For printing and advertising, appro-
priation $1,00O.0O, emergency notes
$1,350.00, making a total of $~2,350.0O,
expenditures $2,2O2.12. For sewers
appropriated 100000, emergency
note $211.00, making a total of 3d.
211. 90, expended $~3,197.34. For public
buildings, appropriation $1,200.0O,
emergency note $4,000, total, $~1,32O.OO,
expended $1,332.11. For Hereford In
let, appropriation 100000, emergency
note $4,000, total $1,700.00, expended
ST. O4.30. For the year 1921, printing
appropriation 81, 100000, emergency
note 81, 00O.O 90, total 100000, ex-
pended $1,922.O2. For streets, appro-
priation $4,000. 90, emergency note
81, 100000, total 100000, expended &c.
421.14. For recording fees $4,000,
emergency note 81, LOO, total ST.
400. 90, expended $1,250.OO. For Here
ford Inlet, appropriation $2,5O0.OO,
emergency note $733.05, transferred
from wharves and docks $S5.01, total
SO, 318.O6, expended $3,318.06. In addi-
ton to the above which in some in
stances show evidences of overdraft,
the following o~verdrafts also appear
for the year 1920: Interest, $8O.15;
discount, $26.24; recording fees $780,
90; boardwalk, $4.14; public buildings,
$12.11; incidentals, $376.O4. For 1921
(up to date) Interest, $209.60; sewers,
! $70.55; boardwalk, $34.30.
Their lighting statements for 1920
showed an appropriation of 100000,
and expenditures of $3,445.S5. And for
1921, appropriation 100000 90, and ex-
penditures of $3,765.93 APPARENTLY paid
for the lighting bills for the first six
months of 1921. At the present time,
however, the City owe to the West
Jersey Lighting Company covering 3
months in 1916, 3 months in 1917, 6
months in 1919, z months in 1920, and
up to October 81, 1921, a grand total
of $22, 81. And we are informed
that the bill for November of the cur
rent year will amount to a trifle over
81, 0O0.0 90 in addition; and this does not
include any allowance for the month
of December of the current year.
We did not verify the statements
given to us On the appropriations and
expenditures for 1920 and 1921 witt
the vouchers paid during that time
and we believe that the statements
are not quite correct, and after al
audit by a competent person it might
be determined that these overdrafts
are not so much in the individual ap'
preparation accounts as they nigh
appear here. We have examined eacl
item paid as far as the minutes of thu
Council show for the past four years
and believe that there has been a gen
eral attempt to keep within the appro
priations, as we find frequent in
stances where moneys have bee
another.
We believe from the examination
chat there is a lack of proper book
keeping rather than intentional over
draft.
Officers and Employees
Apparently the only officer bondet
is the Collector and Treasurer, eithe.
as one or the other officer, although
there is evidence of money bein,
handled by the Deputy Collector, b.
the City Clerk, by the Clerks in tn,
office of the Collector, by the Stree
Supervisor and by the Sewer Inspec
tor. No bond has been exhibited to III
by the Treasurer and Collector, al
though the Clerk has informed us tina
the Collector and Treasurer is under
bond and the bond, as before stated, i!
in his safe (Which is the only city
safe). And as before stated, the min.
utes do not disclose that any Officer
has ever offered a bond, MOI has ONT
been accepted or approved by Council
The Clerk of the City handles the
mercantile licenses and we find thar
all his receipts for the year were pait
over under one check to the City
Treasurer in the autumn, and that his
payments are not therefore paid ovel
from time to time as he receives the
license fees.
We find also that it is the habit OF
the Supervisor of Streets to present a
bill each month, not only for his own
salary and for the operation of a horse
and wagon which he owns, but also
for all services of the men employed
under him on the streets, and at each
Council Meeting he has received in the
past three years>a single voucher COW
ering his preceding months pay and
expenses and wages for employees,
which amount on an average of $4,000
a month; but for the present year., up
to date, we find that he has been draw
ing a salary of $4,000 a month, and for
the first ten months of the year re-
ceived for his own salary $4,000 0 and
for his horse and wagon $1,045.0 90. He
therefore handles an average of 5000
a month which is paid to employees
which your Commission believes ought
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