Show MAIORS contingent FUND SALT LAKE crry CITY utah april 1 1897 to the editor As an there la in considerable talk about the failure of the mayor to rel port with vouchers voucher on the expenditure of the contingent fund and there aro am probably many more of your who are not posted on the amount ampro to that fund and what it in i tor for will you oblige by answering the following questions pint first how much money has mayor glendinning drawn from the fund since ince he be went into office second what is i that contingent fund pOsed to be for NuT third hird how much money did mayor baskin bank in draw from the contingent fund during the same time when he wax was in ia office fourth was waa it supposed to be used for the same ame pur purpose fifth in your opinion has ha the city received the frame results from the ams amount of money expended expanded by each administration sixth if not under which administration were the be bet at results obtained for the amount expended expanded TA Ayna 1 barlog toe the first eight bulbe ot his in Q from fram JaGo jabary siry to augusa 1896 mayor glen drew out of the city alty 1 P sundry expense 1020 COR calico 13 the mayors cont land fund all there w wa to ID it 2 the contingent fund food Is no more the mayors mayor fund than it la Is the auditor ss fund it in ia a city sundry j fund it woo wai formerly brider the me control of the olty city marshals marba but in ID way hay 1890 was wae put under the joint control of the mayor and auditor it was created BB an a fund to which the city council rould could appropriate ome name to meet and pay expenses expense the payment of which was wae not other otherwise wite provided for by ordinance ord ivance for instance if a telegram were to be recel veo by the mayor on official t business or if 11 lie abo found JS it advisable to help some ome mendicant mend leant or sick lick person out of town by getting him a railway tickets ticket or it if ome me little unexpected expense were to become necessary thin lund fund was wa created so BO that the mayor and auditor could meet such email requirements ut the delay of getting special appropriations the council and bd occasioning much inconvenience and ard the trew small mall incidental expenses were reported to the council and made matteri of public record this lo in brief Is IB the purpose of the jund annd to meet email sundry expenses in a way to the city clayt ale business 8 during the whole of 1896 1895 the lait year of the preceding tion Mayor drew from th abe coblin gerit or sundry expense fund a total COW of 4 the audd was wai for the same lame pur par pa joao 0 then as ai now 8 and 6 A As to these questions we re retrain trials from expressing an opinion at Fr idest eDt but will relate a low few foots facto upon which blob taxpayer may have a fair basis baila to form an opinion i mayor baskin arklo drew for aoh such items as have hare been named and specified fled to lo ati abb mue the particular purpose for he money was waa aed 0 o that anttn attn transaction could be bo understood full lully I 1 when he be went out of he be left 1161 in 1111 ibe sundry fund this was wa an unusually large amount it haying having been custo mary to hate bays only a tow few hundred dollars dollan in the fund but in the re lations between city and county on the joint building it became advisable adT liable a at one ode time lor for the city to perform a special pedal favor to the county and it was waa dome by putting several thousand dollars doblan through the sundry fuad when the county returned the money it itwara am left in the aundry funo the mayor aud and auditor not taking the pre caution to cover it back to the she general a procedure was unnecessary although later experience haw it would have been the better way this explains how the amount booms became 0 so o large larce mayor glendinning ban bail drawn on the sundry fund for the same ame clean of expenses as a did mayor baskin bankin he aleo har ban drawn various amounts of which ibe following to a partial record obi obtained alved from the auditors auditor s books booke jan 13 1896 contingent expensed jan 17 1896 contingent j nt expenses pe 1000 00 feb 6 1896 contingent expenses 00 feb legal advice 00 feb 28 IM to 10 willard young who returned warrant to mayor bayor but amount was not covered back into fund 00 may 23 1896 contingent expenses 00 july 13 18 1896 contingent expenses pen ses 00 aug contingent expenses 00 aug 6 1896 contingent expenses peni ses fir emens convention 1500 1600 00 aug 20 1896 contingent expenses pen ses 1286 33 the fact that abe city cout oil bee bae requested an itemized report to Is evl evi dence that the vouchers for 1896 did not state the particular purpose for w which blob the money was used as an did tb abe 0 vouchers for 1886 1895 and the record here bore rlyn riven also discloses that feature in 10 1896 KINO also iho abe lund was not under the joint control of mayor arid ard audi tor but bat the latter merely recognized the orders of i the be former W when bon lor for instance the last money was drawn the demand was for a larger sums sum but the auditor replied there morn was only in the fandl fund and that amount was wa taken staken in further explanation of the mrs fire men mens mena a convention expense it way may be stated that members of the finance committee assert that the cost was about and when the council cou dell appropriated the 1000 it was believed to be beau ample pie there is no explanation of the discrepancy when mayor glendinning makes his bis report as requested by the council perhaps there may be light on all 11 these bes items As aa the matter stands at pr pros e ent excluding tle the 1000 which the city counell intended to cover all the firemen convention ex expenses the ibe record shown that in abe be your year 1896 1895 mayor baskin and his bis auditor drew on the sundry expense fund fox for the various items item belag being particularized during the first eight months of 1896 mayor drew oi of which a report is now naked asked |