Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-01-14 | Page 14 | City Commission Reduces Budgets

CITY COMSSi 1 Fire Department Requestj' for New Apparatus Is m Held Up FLY FUND ELIMINATED , I Police Increase of Twenty' five Men May Not Be Granted. 4J The city commission as a buJgetX comn lttee considered the budget tk) quests of the fire and health divis on of) the department of public safety jester! day Tentative cuts totaling $10 800? were made subject to further consw! erat on jfi In the fire department budget a iej quest for $11 400 for the purchaso oil new equ pment was cut to $'900 a rs? duct on. of $8o00 This will eliminaU' the purchase of a new piece of moton apparatus which the fire chief coS sidered essential. The cut was noij def mte however and the item will b brought up again later on The total budget of the department as allowed is $194 718 60 aa compared to $203-4 218 6o asked for This includes the $70 000 for street 1 ghting which Is $o000 more than was allowed last year for this purpose In the health department tentat v cuts totaling $-300 were made The budget as allowed totaled $9 ,225, as compared to $94 525 An item of $5220 as salaries of the health comm SBion and assistants was held up for future debate since it carries an increase for Dr Samuel G Paul of $100 a month making" his salary $3600 Emergency Fund Cut The appropriation of $1000 for epup- ment of the new comfort stations and! $500 for repair and maintenance of the stations were eliminated entirely tem porarily The $600 asked for antoa and motorcycles also was eliminated and a request for $400 for emergency cases was cut to $200 I Some controversy developed over ths request for $3100 to be used In paying bounty on dead flies Comm ss oner W H Shearman voted to cut this out) entirely and two other comm ssioners favored a reduct on to $"000 The ong inal request prevailed, however The budget committee will continn! its del berations this morning 1 B g reductions are yet to be madel in many of the departments in orderl to provide a fund at all adequats to carry on pubbd improvements 1 Police Increase Questioned Whether or not the pol ce force shall be enlarged by the add t on of twenty f ve patrolmen will be cons dered by j the budget committee th s morning n connect on with the budget for the po- i 1 ce and prison department An add! t onal appropr at on of at least $2o 000 i would be enta led it is believed. 1 The ch ef of police has pomted out the need of this increase in h a force but has not included p ovision for it n his budget request merely recommend ing the matter to the attent on of the commiss on In view of the small mar gin the c ty will have th s year when, the various budgets are passed, unleai substantial reductions are made m 1 eTal commissioners are doubtful of the! city s ability to increase the pol eo i force this jear though recognizing the ' necessity Mayor Samuel C Park comm ss oner of publ c safety has decided to p a . the matter m the commiss on I hands, believing that it n an issue of general concern to the city government as whole He has made no formal recora mendatio on the subiect yet thongh he will favor the increase if It is found possible to prov de for it