The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-12
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hungry, MT Durkin said. It had been brought out the board was told q person trained in social work In college was required, and that Miss Bull was the only one of the sort in town.
 q guess any of the members of the board could find out very easily the condition of Q family.
 Durkin Criticiscs
 T don't think she does any inves- | tigation aside from what she does In the ofiice, MT Durkin added. Supt Cox pointed out each inves- tigation takes considerable time. Miss Bull will got out moro to in. vestigate as she gets moro time, he said. He declared she not only does EZRA Investigating but also investigates some cases of sub.nor- maj children for the welfare de- partment.
 He said in response to c remark by MT Parkinson he would bo glad to have report by Miss Bull as to her work submitted at the next meeting. Warden Sheridan advised board memDers 10 talk over the workings of tho department pri- vately with Mr Cox. The superin. terdent assured them he would be glad to cooperate.
 Tho motion to empower the war. dcn to appoint when needed an- other investigator was finally | passed.
 Factories to Cooperate ' The factories have assured the board continued cooperation in helping to give permanent work to recommended men, the suporin. tondent reported. supt Cox pointed out that Miss Bull does not hire EZRA people. Some recommended by him arc taken.
 CommittoeB wore named as f0l- lows: town hail, Richard parkin- son, (dom.) Louis Do Carlo, (rep); financo ommitteo---Ilichard Park. lnBon, (dem) and Mir Do Carlo,; aims house ommitteo-- Patrick Scully (dom), Frank Eaton, (rep): {: purchasing---Pntrick Scully, Frank Eaton; committee Richard Durkin and William MarIano, (rep).
 Tho salary of tho suporintendont | or the ensuing year was again sot at $500 as last year.
 Supt Cox reported no had many applications during the month, moi oil of them work applications. There were 138 applications and Investigations by himself.
 Financial Report Tho hnahCi1l report for the months or April and May showed q total of ylU,442.Ov of the S76,. U0U appropriation spent. But theru was deducted from this y3,6U7.3g Of unappropriated income and y2O | of miscellany income from wood leaving expenditures of yB,S6b.73. This loft $GS,i40.27 remaining. Tho emergency relief grant for tho fourth quarter was Sy,D3U.bi. Tho itemlzed expenditures were classified aB follows. outside poor, | y2,7DH4bj lab0r, S3,ii4.yG hOspi. tals, yD274D; Ghildron'B In homes, | XS3S.57; town farm, l,by4.SD; Ovvr' head, $l,24442.
 Supt COX reported that in April and May of lD33 th0ro was $lU,- 427.86 spent 0p unemployment ro- | lief in town, WhoreaB in the same months of 1884 $2l,734.2b wns spent. ono essential difference Do. tween tho two years however, is that this year thor0 was $iS,62O from federal funds. Lust year the money was spent and the town later woB reimbursed for tho 0xpendI- ture.
 Work on Town Farm Tho town farm cottage has boon painted on tho outside and work on tn 0inBide iB necessary, tho | superintendent announced. The hospital building has been shinglod on the sides Co help the honting situation, which was bal last winter. skilled labor was used. Tho roof Of tho hospital has been re-roOfGd with complete slate surface and asphalt shingie. Tho cost of materials on all this work
 Gardcn Plots | Tho welfare department has pl0ubhod, fortiiized, marked and assigned G3' garden lots, tho super. intendent said. Twenty-three Of these are on North Church street, 10 on Coon street and so at the town farm. Local people seem eags CT to cultivate them.
 There will be little federal food coming here during the summer, t is expected; Supt Cox announced there would be some however. He stated the amounts distributed thus | far as follows: 682 lbs cereal, b7 25-lb bags of four, 2466 pounds of butter, 1416 lbs of lard, 2e42 lbs of roast beef.
 The superintendent told the board that instead of waiting un- til June or July to order coal as had been done in tho past he had consulted with the committees in charge and had purchased coal in May after sealed bids had been sub. mitted.
 The reason for this was, hc said, | that ho had been told coal prices were going up. It meant saving of 60 cents ton he said, The coal has now been stored in the town hall and other buildings. | GrOh's Report | According to the final report of Mir Groh 1921 men and 1e5 wo- men applied for work relife and re- employment in industry during the year 1933-34. During that period employment was found in industry 1 in town and out of town for 046 men and IA women. All cases were investigated. Town relief work was fiiven before the CWA activity l to an average Of zzS men over q period of 27 weeks and 6045 indus trial family pays were given out. | Weekly Average
 The CWA employed q weekly average of SIS men 5760 pay checks totaling $S5.91O were dis- tributed and S3,s59.35 was paid on materials from CWA funds for pro- jects here making a total received of $s9,s69.35.
 The transfer to the EZRA in April amounted to 2O6 men with an average weekly payroll ofsl0,- 120. In May i95 men were em- ployed with a weekly payroll aver age of $S5O0
 There are now 45 men owrklng 1 for the welfare department of whom IS are aliens, for whom par- tial reimbursement is mad by the state. 1t was brought out at the meeting.