Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-03-25 | Page 11 | Women Hit City Meter Fund Use

Women 1H1K Cdv Meker feoudl 'ps GROUP DEMOS MONEY ADVANCE TRAFFICSAFETY Parking Fees Do Not Increase Budget, Committee Declares i By BOB HALE Salt Lake women, from who pocket books during shopping tours com much of the' city's parking meter revenue, took an embattled stand Monday against asserted failure of the city to make th money available for an Increased traffic aafety program. Meeting at Civic Center, th' Women'a Safety Council of Salt Lake City adopted a resolution calling upon th city commission to "abide by th decrees enacted as to the disposition of such funds.". . Mrs. W. T. Runzler, chairman of apodal committee that investigated investi-gated disposition of meter money, pointed out that the meter ordinance, ordi-nance, adopted In March, 1939, dl-' recta that the dty'a ahare of meter money be used for traffic safety; work. Demand Full Amount "After due Investigation, this committee find no proof from statistics sta-tistics presented by the auditing department and the public safety department that such money collected col-lected augments the funds of the public aafety- department to the amount audi meter fund reach, said Mrs. Runsler'f resolution. Discussion before the resolution waa adopted Indicated the women will. Insist that provisions of the meter ordinance be carried out In accordance with the apirlt of the law and that th only reason they want meter I to mak possible enlarged traffic aafety work. The public aafety department budget for 1930 waa $780,000, and In 1940 it la $785,000, the total being be-ing Increased only $5000 despit the availability of $75,000 from meter me-ter revenue, which I induded In th $785,000 total. Assails Budget Baals Mrs. Runzler said sh understood th public afety department budget was set up on a 10-year average bail, but criticised thi system In view of increasing traffic traf-fic aafety need that are not comparable com-parable to th situation even two or three year ago. Mayor Ab Jenkins told th council coun-cil meeting that it probably la Impossible Im-possible to ebtsl any mare jneter money for the public safety budget this year, but said that th meter money should be made available as an extra fund for traffic work next year. He urged all women group to work toward this end. City Auditor Jerrold P. Beesley came In for com criticism for an addres last week to the Sslt Lak district, Utah Federation of Women' Wom-en' clubs, in which he said the public safety budget now la $90,-000 $90,-000 above a 10-year average because be-cause of addition of meter money. Claims Digraaaiaa ; Mrs. W. R. Carter, council mem-' ber, charged Mr. Beesley digressed from his subject, "even talking about munldpal bond when he waa Invited to talk about parking meter money." During th meeting, coundl women wo-men saw demonstration of th new polio radio car-ambulance and of th police acddent tnvestl-gstion tnvestl-gstion car. Several women exchanged ex-changed greetings with the police radio operate via the acddent investigation in-vestigation machine' two-way radio. ra-dio. Th demonstration was conducted con-ducted by Sergeant Charle J. Larson Lar-son and Patrolman L. W. Peirce of th police traffic division. A nominating committee named the following for office In the council, coun-cil, election to be held at meeting meet-ing April 39: For president, Mrs. Samuel C Cotterell, incumbent: for vice president, pres-ident, Mrs. Laura McCurdy Clark and Mrs. David McMurdie; for secretary, sec-retary, Mrs. Ceorge A. Rocsiter and Mrs. Patrick Friel; for treasurer, Mrs. L. D. Sarvi and Mrs. T. F. Farrelll for historian, Mr. W. T. Runzler and Mrs. it. A. Broad-hurst; Broad-hurst; for board members, Mrs. J. R. Clinton, Mrs. 8. D. Wynn, Mrs. Walter R. Hansen and Mrs. I. R. Jsrvls. .