Show COST EAR Si 1 ASKED Charge har of for Unsuccessful Un- Un Unsuccessful Un successful Is Conduit Account Item In n connection with the request of ot tile the he water water department for tor a budget Appropriation of to waterproof waterproof water- water proof the tho entire inner surface of th the Sunnyside reservoir reservoirS it is found nithe records of the city auditors auditor's office that approximately has b been een en spent for the reser- reser I I v ir in m an effort to make it hold vater vater but without satisfactory re reI re- re I s suits The plan it is said failed to correct conditions which has las as made the reservoir unserviceable able since it was constructed and h hence nce the new plan to line It with a film and a coating of concrete in an effort to make It serviceable IThe Th he reservoir was constructed ata at a cost of ot and approximately has been spent in thus bringing the cost to about In addition several thousand thou- thou s sand nd dollars were spent in concreting concretIng ing Iii the upper portion of the reser reser- reser ir bringing the total expenditures o on the reservoir to date to about the mark But according t the letter of the engineer to the budget committee more nore must be spent in lining the reser- reser v before it can be made to hold water water and be serviceable Examination of the records in the thea I auditors auditor's a office in the account forS for Sunnyside S nn side reservoir failed to show any an any expenditures for but I fl the fi search revealed the fact th that thit t the money for this work hadn had I In n tran transferred fe red by action action of the he city clY conr mission to an Account nt I known a the tho feed line conduit ac acc account ac- ac c count nt nd aid the expenditures for Sunnyside reservoir were charged under this account the ac acc account account ac- ac c count record indicating that the ex- ex had been made in connection 1 U tion n with the feed line conduit How How- How I HowIe e ever er r. r when the vouchers were looked I j u uP they showed that they had been i drawn in favor of the I ln in company for reservoir I. I B By transferring the money to the f feed eed d line conduit account and drawing drawIng draw draw- ing I g the vouchers in payment for work against this account t th Sunnyside reservoir cost ac account ac- ac count was kept free of this repair I ac-I tm and the apparent cost was kept down The fact that had been spent n g work which the engi- engi ee eer r now admits was useless so far making malting the reservoir serviceable concerned was as not discovered u until m the original vouchers for the g were compared with the expense item numbers under the f feed Led ed late Lne conduit account |