Show Women Issue Warning on Meter Use r SAFETY GROUP MAIES MAKES APPEAL TO COMMISSION City Leaders Promise Written Report on 1941 Budget Proposal Embattled women interested In traffic safety told the city commission commission commission com com- mission Thursday that the parking meter ordinance as now operated appears to be class legislation against automobile operators and warned that unless meter revenue Is used for Increased traffic safety work there may be moves to havethe have havethe havethe the parking regulators removed The women represented the I Women's Safety Council of Salt Lake City which some time ago adopted a resolution asking that the estimated annual in income income m- m come from meters be used for additional additional additional ad ad- traffic safety over and above other public safety department department department depart depart- ment expenditures Council Head lead Appears Appearing at a city commission meeting were Mrs Samuel A. A Cotterell Cotterell Cotterell Cot- Cot terell council president Mrs W. W T. T chairman of a special committee that studied use of meter revenue Mrs Mary Edgeworth Edgeworth Edgeworth Edge- Edge worth and Mrs Laura McCurdy Clark Commissioners listened to the I women state their case case and at atI I request of the women promised to give jive a written explanation of how the he money is to lobe tobe be used In in the Jie 1941 budget now set up ively for submission at a public hearing December 31 The public safety department aggregates i In including n c l 1 u d din i n g in anticipated meter rev rev- When adopting the tentative tentative tentative tenta tenta- tive budget commissioners explained explained explained ex ex- the meter sui sun SUIi- was included in included included in- in in but not added to the public safety ty department revenue Cites I Fatality Costs Mrs Cotterell told commissioners commission commission- ers era that there always Is the plaint of the city having ing no money when hen traffic safety work ork is asked She said each traffic fatality is estimated to cost Mrs told the commissioners commissioners commis commis- slone her own mother died in ina a traffic accident in 1016 1916 and that she had more than a common in interest interest In- In terest in traffic safety Former Fonner Mayor John M. M Wallace promised us women that It if the meters were Installed the money would be used for traffic safety she said The meter ordinance says money shall be used for traffic traffic fic tic control and regulation The ordinance ordinance ordinance or or- says that t that at ordinance itself does not supersede other ordinances ordinances ordinances or or- but Is an additional pro pro- vision She contended that on this basis meter revenue shoud be considered additional to other city income You as commissioners should abide by your own self instituted ordinances she said Discover Jj o er No o o Gal Gains There is no evidence that public public pub pub- lic Hc safely funds have been augmented aug aug- by the meter money for traffic safety fety work There still are women who resent resent resent re re- sent the meters and if It you OU commissioners commissioners com com- ml missioners leave a loophole you may get stet some challenge of the meters Mrs Ed Edgeworth orth e said she had advocated advocated advocated ad ad- the meters before they were Installed last year but that I fear we are headed hooded for I hope I will align myself with any group favoring removed of the meters she said Id She said that use we of the money for other than additional traffic safety might make it possible for someone to go into court and challenge challenge challenge chal chal- lenge the validity of the meters I believe there might be a very fine tine case she he said She said that b by using meter mone money fiS as s general revenue re and aidIng aiding aiding aid aid- ing in the retirement of city bonds it may be the city is using the money of a class of persons motorists motorists motorists mo mo- a against a liability of all the community Theat would be class legislation legislation legislation legisla legisla- tion assessing people only because they drive automobiles she s said d. d Mrs Clark told commissioners she hoped women would have I something to look forward to in traffic safety |