The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-20


 fairs. They provide for several im- portant changes.
 The Democrat is presenting, in daily installments, the full text of the lengthy charter revision act. To- days installment follows:
 SEC. 13. Mayor to enforce con- tracts and agreements. Powers. Subsection (d) of section sixty of said charter Is amended to read as follows: To suspend, pending hearing and action thereon, and to remove for cause, after due hear ing, any board member appointed by the mayor or any appointed of- ficial, but not any elected official.
 SEC. IA. Subsection CD of sec- ton sixty of said charter is amended to read as follows: To appoint, annually, with the con- sent of the board of finance, a public accountant to thoroughly audit all books, accounts and rec ords relating to the fiscal affairs of the city, and have the result thereof reported to him. A copy of such report shall be filed by the mayor with the board of al- dermen and board of finance within thirty days after its re- ceipt.
 SEC. IS. Board of finance; how constituted. Section sixty-five of said charter as amended June 3, 1887, is amended to read as fol- lows: There shall be a board of finance consisting of the mayor, who shall be chairman of said board, the budget director, the comptroller, the president of the board of aldermen and five elec- tors of the city of Waterbury who shall be appointed by the mayor to be members of said board. One of the members appointed shall be member of the board of alder men. Tn the month of January, 1940, after the second Monday, the mayor shall appoint five members of said board to serve for a term of two years from the second Monday in January of the year of appointment Each member of said board shall serve until his successor shall be elected or ap- pointed and shall have qualified, and each appointed member shall receive salary of five hundred dollars per annum.
 SEC. 16. Departments to submit annual estimates of expenses to mayor. Section sixty-seven of said charter is amended to read as fol- lows: On or before the fifteenth day of September in each year, each department, and each execu- tive officer not connected with any department, shall submit to the mayor and to the budget di- rector an estimate of the expenses of such department or office for the ensuing year, beginning on the first day of January next follow- ing, stating in detail, SO far as possible, the purpose for which such expense will be incurred. The budget director shall prepare and submit budget, with recommen- dations to the mayor, who shall submit the budget and recom- mendations to the board of fi- nance, on or before the first day of November. The mayor shall submit to the board of finance such estimates of expenses as have been submitted to him and the budget director. together with semi-annual audit reports to be made by the budget director and his recommendation thereon, to- gether with an estimate of the probable revenue of the city for the next fiscal year.
 SEC. IT. Estimates for appropri- ations not to exceed probable re- ceipts estimated in detail. Section sixty-nine of said charter is amended to read as follows: The board of finance. in preparing each annual budget, shall estimate the probable cash receipts from each item of resources. based upon the experience of previous years, and shall appropriate against such item to an extent only that will seem to reasonably insure receipts equal to or in excess of such ap- propriations. The board of finance in each annual budget, shall set up separately and in detail there- in the amount of income which il shall estimate will be received from each separate source, pro- vided the board shall not estimate the receipts from current taxes for any year in excess of ninety-tw two per cent of the amount laid or the estimated grand list at the rate recommended, and, when es. tiInating the probable receipts from taxes, which became due and payable prior to the year fol which the budget is prepared, they shall not estimate an amount iil excess of seventy-five per cent oi the actual collections from this source during the full fiscal year immediately preceding.
 SEC. IS Board to prepare ano submit annual budget estimates tC aldermen. Section sixty eight ( said charter is amended to reac as follows: The board of finance shall, annually, in the month oi I Orfnlnar make akfimakes nf flaa ex.