Show REPORT OF MINORITY ce t i4 fota Another l Financial Statement to City Council 11I ttJlt L e sc IT DEMONSTRATED LITTLE Democratic Members of the Finance it < < jJi Committee of the City Council Presented f Pre-sented a Minority Eoport to tho i Council Last Evening A Labored i Criticism of the Majority Report Th i It Did Not Even Pretend to Show the Financial Status of tha City I Laid Over Till Friday Night J j t i In an effort to overcome and throw discredit on the financial 1 statement oC the municipality presented to the City 1 Council by the majority of the Committee 1 Commit-tee on Finance a week ago thc Democratic 1 i Demo-cratic members of the committee Har I I F1 J ensteln and Fernatrom presented a j I Jq minority report last evening The I Et minority report the first diSFentirf re i ti port that ever came from that c mmltI ice since the presont Council took office I I iUITI I could not be classed as a report purporting I LILtI ll pur-porting to shot the financial status of the city It was simply a campaign 1Pt p document abusing the framors of the statement presented to the Council by the majority In a few instances Isolated I lated Items In the majority report were picked out by the compilers of the minority report and efforts put forth to f attach significance to them There was no discussion on the document which was read and laid over to come up for I consideration along with the majority I report at a special meeting of tho i i Council 1 called for next Friday evening THE DEMOCRATIC REPORT The minority report Is as follows I I Gentlemen We the minority of your I Committee on Finance botf leave to repot re-pot us follows In reaponnc to the resolution introduced by Councilman llnrtenstcln requesting a financial statement from the Committee jon j-on Finance the majority has seen lit to I introduce a bocallccl report not In com pllnnco with tho resolution nor a financial I statement for tho Information oC this honorable body of the citys present llnancinl condition but evading the main J I question They take up a newspaper ugh Instead Vc the minority of the Committee on Finance hnvo born compelled to make this report for several reasons First wo havo not been invited and I were not parties to tho rcpoil until last Tuesday evening as the Council will remember I thnt vo adjourned our regular meeting tt 1lT for Ute purpose of hearing tho lengthy I I report that being tho llrst wo saw of It i and second the report loes not show I the citys Ilranclal standing nor are tho jr figures correct as will be l seen by our I Jt Tr report udl UV tho minority of tho Committee on Ilimuce believe that such I 3th lt reports are cri1 undignified and unbecoming to any city I Fit KovtTnmenl In tho llrst place an attempt at-tempt Is I made to besmirch tho foimcr r1 city administration by making also and I a1 misleading comparisons charging said 1 1lJ administration with wild extiavapancc u while the facts are that un actual comparison rc com-parison between < < nine months of lust year Afr and nine months of this year show tho liI J lollowlng This years expenditures to Ltec September 30th the dale of this report i iI aro i73l 12SO Lust years expenditures I h Oj were 2317203 a difference of 511407077 cJJ This years overdraft In the banlca Sep f = I tember COth was 223 < X < Lust years overdraft tlfi over-draft was 4j7749Cl The overdraft In the 1t I banks Is today 219 S03S3 Last year on tho I 7iii wanio dale It was rt 176 12 a dlfiercncc of IG13C0T Ofthls1 ooo ooeod should bo deducted In I favor of this years expenses ij ex-penses for water Improvements although I rr great den of money was expended last J I year for the vimo purpose such us uncovering I p un-covering tho plpj In City creek buying I o ti I I land In Parleys cnnyonr and i lurgo portion I jti por-tion of the inglneorlns work vas paid out of the general fund so If the former udminlsiratton was extravagant < what phall this administration ho termed > Su Another attempt I < nvulo to how that this administration has paid somo of tho former adminlstrattnnB expenses The I records of ho city show that there were less unpaid bills and claims against the city when this administration assumed its control than there has been for tho last eight years The majority report failed to stato that I the lost Republican administration of four years ago which wii turmoil The Salt Lalc Trlbunu as being an utter dlsjrrrco b 1o this community left I to the nonpartisan nonparti-san and Demociallc administration nearly f near-ly IGOGGCi of JudgmculH and unpaid claims for that administration to settle up And the claim that tho latter part or tho last administration was wildly I extravagant Is I nothing but a falsehood lId The minutes of tho proceedings of the City Council of December J2 J99 will how whore that extravagance comes In JClghtynlne = hundred dollars were paid toO qij to-O JL Griffin for sprinkling Mrs Sarah Jl Kadellffe and Nellie B Erlcl lon received I 512UU and lorA > respectively for damage 4O HUllH Incurred during tho former administration jrJ adminis-tration Why is not the majority fair 1u enough > to state thcso facts In Justice to all concerned because l that money vas tI1 charged to that administration as oxr l ponsed ii We the minority belIeve that tim kind F at a rc port which tho majority has mado 0 will not In any degree Inform or benefit 1 this administration for its future guidance guid-ance To tho contrary In our opinion It IK i a disgrace to this Council to adopt reports re-ports whose whole object accms to be to 1 answer what It reruns J as yellow journals jour-nals and that the majority report haa IJIcIUt sunk down to tho lowest lovl 1 of any D yellow Journal over published for Its tt twisted false misleading and deliberately te deliberate-ly untrue statements ogt In support of these assertions we tho minority of the Committee on Finance beg leave to call your attention to a few glaring mlsstatcmenls In tho rortion of the report referring to the Engineering Engineer-ing department as IL matter of comparl non the report pays that in 1E9 S1703I52 1aG was expended while for tho nine months 1 of this year only 70SIGO l has boot expended ex-pended while the truth of the matter IB that for the nine months of this year 7 which tho Auditors books plainly ishow k flSPCl S3 has been spent for Identically tho V1ji same class of work aa compared with A IfciO I In looking over tire payrolls and vouchers of this department they show a most extraordinary extravagance Men I aro payed UH much as 750 to 510 per day and nil extraordinary expensive board bc 11 lJldcu 1 In the Struct and Irrigation departments the following remarkable figuring occurs Kxpenses for 1SDO lo3227 5 Expense for 1200 LS5D101 Add expense of Land and Water Commissioners department for 1DCO 70275 teiIr Total expense for 1000l31S93 pt Average cxpcnao per month for 10 > 1SW 377091 llfStrJ Average expense per month for J 1EOO 3 > SloS i id 1 WhIle wo agree with tho average ox o tl t peiisis per month for tho year 1SW of d < 5377G91 the average > expense per month OII for thn year of 1000 we find to bo JIS33J1 I tn Whether the Juggllns of the above Hg lt ures IUIK been done through Incompetence ctrP or to willfully deceive we will leave to the UM majority of tho Committee on Finance to t a eplain Nevertheless It chows that In 111 Ir mat department I alone jnoaKJ more has been expended per month than in lKfJ I k and undoubtedly this 5s largely Increased Wt f f by tho creation of the Land and Water i il I CornmlssIoncrK department t Another burden 10 tho city IB tho sewer oxtcnslotiH tho CXIHTIBUB of which should ar bo defrayed by the proportyownora re I Hiding along the line of extension which Y the ordinances plainly show The Bngl j 4 nuerI Is called on to estimate the approximate ff IpI approxi-mate cost of this which he docs but hie lase 4 1 r3tlumlcs are KO Inaccurate and HO far gH ii below tho actual cost that the deficIency D tn Home cases amounts to from SO to 70 0i1 I l > er cent which tho city has to pay out at L > P the general taxation lrl1 To repeat pant history will not relievo tho city from its present financial condition ftlJ 1 condi-tion wo wish to call your attention to lLfr rl y the fact that for the first time In many Ito I if years there la no check or limit placed JjJft or any department to Its expenditures IYU1V and thoBu In charge of the departments oS e I feel no longer bound by tho rulv of the 39i 1 previous Council and thin administration j j has failed to adopt any rules whatever 11 gDj with regard to limiting I lie expenditure fJii io l of thu several departments and In our opinion it JM this mat has caused the deplorable I ttitg de-plorable condition of thin citys llimncca til1yf I more than anything elac ilw9 l Another thing that doe nt seem right oC la that very often on the semimonthly iW fIo payrolls appear the names of those who receive payment for from eighteen to twenty daya for two weeks labor To allovlato this wo urgently recommend recom-mend that steps Immediately bo taken to Inaugurate a system that will keep our expenses within tho boundary of our income in-come which It certainly docs not today for with an overdraft In tho banks of SU9EOSS7 this speaks for Itself Another Important matter Is I that ac cordlns to law tho Treasurer must dl l vldo tno money collected Into different J funds which will make a very serious 1 question arise as to how to meet the ext ex-t penses and particularly thoao of tho general I gen-eral fund As tho Auditor Is Instructed to report this evening on that particular l 1 fund and Its condition we defer comment upon the same One thing IB I evident and that Is that I oxpenaeo must be cut down and our income in-come It possible Increased and wo fear I that the Increasing of our Income la toIL to-IL great extent hampered by olMclals whose duty It should bo to aid and up hold those who are placed In charge of tho collection of our revenues In conclusion wo wish to say that while tho President of this Council and tho chairman of the Committee on Pi 1 nanco boldly l stated at the first meeting h < jld by this Council that tho majority assumed all the responsibility of this administration ad-ministration wo the minority In Justice to tho already overburdened taxpayers do urgently demand that more businesslike business-like tactlco bo Inaugurated than has characterized this Council In the past r 1 |