The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-10

eNNN VI w NAeO welfare disbursements of food dur Ing January had cost $i0,000 of the S7b,000 appropriation.
 "The month of January is the heaviest month, Miss White ex- plained. "At the first of the year the food on our shelves, staple goods, was exhausted. The supplies we have bought in this category should last Into March,"
 Work Praised
 A transfer of $250 from the relief fund to provide continuance of Q cleaning project giving WPA em- ployment to 24 men and women for six months was voted, The control- Ter, remarking that they had made "the walls of my office white" and City Clerk John P. Fitzmaurice joined in laudlng the enterprise.
 Supervisor Thomas Gunshanan told the board that various of the schools were being cleaned and outlined the program, generally lauded by department heads and city boards. The persons doing the work have 67 dependents, Miss White reported.
 Commissioner John II. doss in- quired of Miss White concerning the variety of food available to those on welfare, citing distribution of boiled wheat in the south as Q standard and stressing the need for economy by all city departments. The superintendent told the com missioners that welfare clients now have e variety of choice at the commissary and that the matter of diet was under advise of the diei- clan of the Visiting Nurses Asso- ciation,
 Repair Work
 Another $i25 was recommended for transfer to the Board of Alder men for continued employment of 90 youths between the ages of i8 and 25 In an IVA project providing cleaning and repairing of desks and equipment in the schools. The federal funds available for salaries of this group are larger than the $i838e wages the WPA will pay to the 24 cleaners during this year, 1t was remarked, the city's share negligible, in comparison.
 After long conversation City En- gineer Charles A. Root, searching for $i5,000 he had supposed was to be included in the budget for work and maintenance of the city's reser- voir system, was told that the board felt that the inactive water com mission be called into action again, This commission of i6 members, with the city engineer and the com- mittee on economy of the finance board, will study the financial prob- iems attendant to operation and administration of the reservoir sys- tenn, not yet complete so far as early plans are concerned.
 Corporation Counsel Charles s, o'Connor reported to the board that he had a blank hill pending before the General Assembly con- corning change in the stipulations affecting the surplus resource sink ing fund. This was by direction of the board and Commissioner Goss had advocated elimination of clauses which "froze" assets within the fund, making laying of e spe- cial tax Q threat on occasion when the city actually had funds but could not, by charter, use them.
 Advice of Griffenhagen and Associates and the economy com mittee is to be sought in prepara- ton of the measure, to act with the corporation counsel in It's legis- lative course.
 56,495 Eligible
 Tax Collector William A. Ennis reported that 66,495 persons were liable to pay the 8 old-age assist ance tax, the total to collect, $i69, ,485 with residents liable to c $l penalty if the tax is not paid by March 1. It came due the first of February.
 Aldermanic President Patrick M. Perriello presided in absence of Mayor Frak Hayes and the board voted to meet next Thursday at 1 o'clock.