The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-17

According to the announcement of Mayor Monagan it is expected tnat Prof. Jenks will come to Wa teroury tomorrow morning to as- sume his new duties. The mayor talked with him shortly after being informed of approval of the bill and Prof. Jenks stated that he was ready to come to this city immedi- ately.. At the present time there are four assessors in the office and while no official statement was forthcoming, it is expected that ali will be retained as assistants to the assessor or in some similar ca pacity. Under terms of the bill the assessor may appoint such assist ants as shall be authorized by the mayor.
 The bill also stated that upon appointment and qualification of assessor the terms of office of all members of the existing board shall be determined. That would seem to indicate that as MT. Jenks takes ever tomorrow the terms of John Kilduff and Joseph McGinniss, Democrats, John Jenusaitis and Robert Stone, Republicans, would end, but also indications were that they would be retained as employees of the office, which faces many physical changes when the new as- sessment system is finally adopted by the city. At the present time the George B. Forah company is completing revaluation project which will provide the basis for the modernized set-up that has been recommended.
 The Revaluation Committee wrote to Mayor Monagan on June 3, 1945. as follows:
 "The undersigned committee af- ter careful consideration and inves- tieation of available candidates for the position of assessor, is of the unanimous opinion that Aldro Jenks, at present connected with the State Tax Commissioners of- flee, Hartford, Conn, as Research Director, is ideally qualified for this position. We. therefore respect fully submit for your consideration the name of Aldro Jenks, with the recommendation that he be ap- pointed Assessor.
 Signing this were John P. Brophy, chairman of the committee, Lester E. Young, Orton P. Camp, Patrick F. Shea, c. Arthur Dubois and James w. Abercrombie.
 As early as June 18th, The Demo- crat stated that 1t had been inc formed that Professor Jenks had submitted his resignation to State Tax Commissioner Walter Walsh to accept the Waterbury position. Only this past week The Democrat also learned that Mir. Jenks had been approached in connection with several other tax assessment Jons in Connecticut.
 A native of Dodgeville, Wisconsin, MT. Jenks was born there on Decem- Der 29, 1892. He was graduated from the local high school and the Mil- waukee State Normal school, follow ing which he attended University Of Wisconsin, majoring in law. During World War he served in France.
 From 1929 to 1889 he was Super visor of Assessments for the Wis. consin State Tax Commission and had charge of eleven counties with 387 local assessors under his direct supervision. His work at this time also included schools to train such ofiicials in their official duties, re- assessments of local properties, pre- pairing cases for presentation to tax review boards, appraising properties involved in litigation and qualifying as an expert witness before the state Supreme court and U. s. Dis trict court. During the course Of this work he completed revalua- tions of 20 ot Wisconsins 72 coun- ties.
 In 1889 he went to the Univer- sity of Texas where he wrote . Manual for Texas Assessors in lo40, as well as instituted and conducted training schools for local ofncials. iIe conducted l5 such institutions, attended by 5S5 assessing ofnciAls. At the same time he was conducting classAs at tha uniyegsity in Inuni-