Milford chronicle., 1956-01-13

Additional Rubbish Truck, S.
10000; Additional Billing Machine,
4 S3,055.00 Total: s26,5S0.00.
Reductions. street Improve
ments. s15000.00; Parking Lot Im-
provements, S12,8O0.0O; Street Re
pair Materials, $4,000; Street
Lighting, S1,000.00; Curbs and Gut
ters, 100000; Sewer and Water
Main Extension, $5.000.00 Total:
S35, 10000.
This $62 900 cut would have gone
Hf for essential, and, in most cases,
urgently needed equipment and
services, and would have left much
in the way of services not provided
for. To continue to forego these
essentials can only mean failure
on the part of the City to supply
the services the citizens take for
granted, but a lack of sufficient in
come to provide for them made it
impossible to include them this
year.
over the past three years the
City has acquired valuable records
for future use and plannings
through the Assessment Records
provided by the Clemishaw Com
pany's revaluation, and in the
Chart on the Electrical Distribu-
ton System. We would like to see
the Street and Sewer facilities
charted also. While no apprOpria-
ton is in the budget for such work,
we mention this here to point the
need for funds to complete the
project when the Street and Sewer
Committee make their recommend
ations.
The 18 or 20 pieces Of mobil
equipment owned by the City
should entitle US to Municipal
Fleet Discounts, but apparently it
is not being extended on repairs
at local shops. We recommend that
an effort be made to secure these
savings in costs if at all possible,
and that Council give thought to
the institution of a Preventive
Maintenance Program, to include
all City owned equipment, after
moving into new quarters this sum-
mer.
In addition to those requests all
ready on file for sewer and water
main extensions, the completion of
the Sewage Disposal Plant viii un-
dOubtedly bring increased demands
for. these services. We recommend
the adoption of an ordinance which
will Place the installation of at
least sewer and water mains on a
cost-shaAing basis between the
City and abuIIiRg property owners
fronting on existing streets, and
an Ordinance regulating the Sub
Division of land and installation
Of service facilities in tracts not
presently developed.
The work-load in the City De-
partment Office connected with SER
vice billings and taxes, and the
posting Of cash credits to subscrib-
er accounts has increased to the
point that it seems necessary to
afford relief in some manner. A
new billing machine was proposed
by the City Manager but the Budget
Committee could not include it. We
would like to recommend that a
Committee be named from Council
to study with the City Department.
employees, procedures which are
presently in use in the office, and
the proposals that will be made by
those manufacturers Of business
machines who have been invited to
study our problem. 1t is our hope
that service to subscribers may be
improved and the Work-load more
evenly distributed among the en-
plOyees.
Efficient management and opera
ting economies are the things
which we have endeavored to in
corporate in the budget as adopted,
and in our report of recommerda-
tons. But the ever growing needs
of the City, and the resultant in