The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-23
ECONOMY PLANS
 FACE DEBATE
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(Continued From Page D postpone action of the audit firms employment at an estimated $6,000 for two months work, until the city department heads had reported through the mayors investigation what economies may be devised at once. Several of the members ap- proved the method of cooperative scrutiny of departmental costs by the mayor, acting with the finance and aldermanic board committees. The exception to this was Controller Sherwood l.. Rowland, who offered a motion" at the joint committee meeting to "hire the Griffenhagen firm" The motion WAS not seconded, even by the several Republican members of the committees.
 The controller was informed that the committees had no such power by Chairman Judge and that such action must be instituted as a rec- ommendation of the finance board to the aldermen. The latter board would have power to set up an item in the budget for the cost of such a proposal.
 Considered the most important meeting of series of conferences on greatly enlarged welfare costs. balancing of the budget, cutting ex- penditures, the finance board SeS- sion today looms as principal fac- tor in pointing possible reorganiza- ton of Waterbury's financial struc- ture. Analysis of the budget has been made by Executive Secretary Thomas P. Kelly at the request of the mayor and the finance board. From this point, consideration has been given the situation of the pres ent in every city department.
 Results of this will be offered at the meeting at o'clock today, which promises to exceed in length the current three-to-four hour meetings held throughout this year. A principal point may be the de- velopment of "stagger system" for city employees, as suggested at a finance board meeting earlier this month. The Good Government As- sociation's vote, to be presented at the meeting today, criticizes en- ployment of some "who have been censured for dereliction in the dis charge of their official duties" at the same time urging abandon ment of projects requiring expendi- ture of large sums of money"
 It also calls on the city ito care for it's needy and to ameliorate suf- fering among its citizens" This pre- cedes the reference made apparently to WPA and PWA projects for which the board has sought ap- proval and which, presently, in the instance of the WPA, pay wages to approximately 1,600 citizens who otherwise would be on the relief rolls. The full statement of the Good Government Association is as fol- lows:
 June 23, 1888 HONORABLE BOARD OF
 FINANCE
 CITY OF WATERBURY: In accordance with resolution duly adopted by the Board of Managers of The Citizens Good Government Association of Wa terbury, Incorporated, I hereby communicate to you, at the re- quest of that Association, that the Board of Finance adopt the fol- lowing resolution: Voted: That this Association de- clare its approval of the ResOlu- ton of June 9th of the Board of Aldermen pertaining to making Eeeded economies in the opera tion of the City Government; that it declare its belief that only through impartial investigation can unnecessary expenditures be located and avoided so that loss of jobs and pay cuts shall not be imposed upol, those who do not deserve it; that it affirm the duty of the City Government to care for its needy and to ameliorate suffering among it's citizens; that it condemn the creation of un- necessary jobs for those who have been censured for dereliction ii, the discharge of their official du- ties; that it urge the abandon ment of projects requiring the ex- penditure of large sums of money for material costs with consequent lessening of funds available for our own citizel,s; that it urge the Board of Finance, insofar as may be within it's Charter powers, to provide the necessary funds to carry out the Resolution of the Board of Aldermen above referred to; and that copy of this ResO- lution be transmitted to the Board of Finance.
 Signed:
 JOHN F. McLINDEN,
 Secretary, The Citizens
 Good Government As
 sociati0n of Water
 bury, Incorporated.