Show Commission Votes Vote i Fund Switch to i Aid Statistics Work Demand for Vital Rec Records Creates j jf I f Need for Additional Board Approves Clerk A Appointment Clearing the way for removal of a bottleneck in the vital statistics section of Salt Lake City health department city co com commissioners om- om missioners Tuesday granted Mayor Ab Jenkins authority to di direct direct di di- the public safety department budget officer to make int inter inter- r- r department accounts transfers in n the 1942 budget i iThe The board also appointed Mrs Isabelle sabelle Shaw Sixth avenue as s extra stenographer and clerk lerk clerkIn in n th the st statistics section The appointment ap- ap J Jin ointment is effective forthwith and nd the pay will vill be 70 a month Mayor Jenkins clashed last week with commissioners when they failed ailed to to attend a conference with i im m members mb rs of the board of health J to o discuss need ron more workers to o handle the increased business of furnishing copies cople of birth certificates certificates cates ates and nd other vital records Charges Program Blocking Without naming the commissioners commissioners commis- commis specifically Mayor Ten Jen- enkins en- en kins charged at least two members members mem- mem bers ers of f the commission are blockIng blocking block block- ing ng this vital statistics program His request was for 2020 2020 additional additional addi- addi appropriation Consensus of the commission was that the mayor get in and 1 clean up the bottleneck Do we have legal authority to authorize blanker blanket transfers from one account to another in a department department de do- budget 7 asked Finance Commissioner Oscar W. W McConkie McConkle when the mayor submitted a foral formal formal for- for mal al proposal authorizing his budget budget bud- bud get officer Edwin G. G Woolley Jr to make such transfers But we told the mayor to handle his tiis department as best he can 1 therefore he must have authority to make these adjustments said Commissioner John JohnB B. B Matheson Changes Seem Necessary These changes seem necessary in order to avoid deficits in certain accounts Each transfer will be submitted to the commission before before before be- be fore it is made explained Mayor Jenkins a aThe The commission ha never re refused refused refused re- re fused in my recollection such transfers in the course of administering admin admin- I a depar department ment but if the mayor has any apprehension about its future action whatever he wants to put on the record is all allright allright allright right with me add added d Mr McConkle Mc Mc- Cookie Conkie The m m motion tio then w was unanimous unanimously ly adopted The mayor however refused to permit a lengthy letter signed by Mr Woolley explaining the need for additional help in the statistics statistics sta sta- section to be filed Instead Instead Instead In In- stead he asked that it be referred to I the committee of the whole j where it It- Itcan can be conveniently re referred referred referred re- re to in the future That i request also was concurred in by the commissioners |