| Show AUDITOR REISER I J MAKES REPORT I t Council Adopts the Majority Fl FI f i LI Statement If DY A PAWL OTE j V t XI II I td mr ne lie I IrI luu or OUr her herit At it th tb meeting ot o U tl City held hek lut there ther wu wal a made to 10 pus the llou Pioneer Park to LM h Lot Los and salt Lake IAk corn com pin for toi depot depol purposes The ObStAcle thit prevented I a ot the 11 Ih the tact taci that the inset It wu called for tur the ot or bunt upun the majority and nd nIn lala t reports ot of tha Ibe committee former port Was wal dO ted The Theother 11 other business wee the Ibe lal report of Auditor which wu to the on Attn It II BI as follows ERS To ro the te P ant and Mern Iem MernE E tars of the City thiu I a statement or of tin the lIt of the contingent expense or orG G rI I fund In compliance with i r reso o luto adopted by your our honorable bod bodOn body On October tI 13 1900 I In doing so 10 I direct your to I II I tilt the tact that nt r before In the history I Iff ii the aU city hat has th the city Council request requested ed trout the dt city a statement of at att t the condition of any Iny tune k n has hal the city been 1 In n ft position to such auch informs co tIN ad the City Council requested it II Tb division of the city business Into Inlo wu was a thing entirely unknown U dir der previous All Mi the financial transactions Were con conducted ducted from trum OtIS olle common fund Into of every nature ultimate I y found their WI way and from which ex cx of eV every ry kind were ml So had thIs custom become that tb the hon gentleman who d a aI as I of Ib the city cilY the last lut even JOg jg expressed himself In a newspaper Interview at the Urn tune the water waler bond was wal agitated last to the tho effect that ht be would not favor lavor the of bonds bonde If the tu were in III the common funds n had bad previously ly been the custom On June lat last I addressed a corn com to your our honorable body In you ou of the above condition or of and of toy any Intention to 10 comply nitis the statutes the dIce of the elt city auditor In the following particulars ulars none ot of which had been I Iy by h rn m predecessors In the am 1 tro 10 place upon eAch ech or oth other other er other evidence of s issued by the elL city auditor S stating that tb the same me Is II within the lawful debt limit of the ell city and I is Issued accord accordIng Ing in to law lawf f To refuse to Issue 1 warrant for nn whiCh exceeds the debt lIntt or oj when the provisions lt g the of oC Warrants liv not lIot beell corn compiled 1111 lid with tTo divide the revenue ot of the city tilts appropriate funds U as folio follows Con Can expense called general generall fund street treet and sidewalk hInd fund water fund sewer wr and drain fund and ape tax ta keep an account of clI h beor extension and other matter payable a out of at the ts ta fund and to limit Ih the In such Inch In stands stanCIl to the amount of the tax ox ex cePI In where the city S rte ree to 10 topa pa n ii portion of at the coat COlit out II the regular I lAve ave the various arlous departments to the ell city auditor titi each voucher arrI ard payroll presented to 10 this 1 a tu I showing the or c to 0 which the same lame I is to b be or Jr the purpose of at enabling the auditor to 10 draw warrants the various funds III accordance with my communication to your our honorable body I th the new In n Jul July lit III 1 1900 and hi ha over uric adhered to the Ihl lame iain This howver was III not donsi donl at af after atter ter the Ibe of the city attorney on oa lUnny ot of the points had I further caused the of the public library to be transects through the auditors omee te comply with the Ibe statute providing ter the Uti establishment and of Gt that Owing 10 to the tl fal Idra that the y year IU cities clUel on Instead t 1 Stat at as PI by the th tate Con U soc Inu I enacted ti n 1101 therewith m my predecessors did not close ciON the Ule books ot of the auditors of I on retiring on December I 51 11 laH 19 It was al therefore some lume time a af aft r rt t tilt catering erin the Ibe that t I that we Were wert doln doIng business In a nt new year which accounts for tor the fact that the division Into funds was wal not In earlier It also made It necel all to go u over the entries made In th tim Iou since lb the beginning of year ar an and place each account In lIlt its tr fund o occasioning a great amount lit of extra work The contlo tIt ur or general is III Intend td fur fr 11 ii expenditures not for tor by Iv Ip special lal funds To this ic the for Waterworks improvements payable pWe by bonds was ae temporarIly mrIlY For this reason It appeared to me on In Octo tier her Ind 2nd 1900 that Ihal the credit ot of the COD cos expense or general fund WI was so 10 as 81 to render It 11 hiatt to 10 appropriate further money for the present and aM I accord luGI sent ent a communication to hon bod you thereof and Q Jn a committee be In lp to 10 look Into Inlo the matter This Wa Ta Hind seised upOn uTon by two of tM the dally daily papers 01 f this for the purpose of nl capital for the ap election and a flood nood of at abu abuse 11 lion ot of the City and aud th rIty lIy has hal tol fol l wed A mot more careful examination ot of account In the Ibe fund ha has lead to the h dIscovery if 1 number of it Items proper Properly to 10 other funds For nt an Item of for tor sewer II r material for the tbt Store Ilore house ot 0 the board vf of public work which ilonis tl t Ih the sewer fund It Ii 14 also discovered rd that the sum sam e Ift to tb the 1 II being held b by I the he city treasur a fund nt lied b by or resolution of the Ibe f Th city attorney bu U ad 4 1 m me It that I the th from the tho 1 eI 01 may be b tl St aN a a prospective source which c t properly bp be drawn all of 01 which th general of the embar t f l few ao ago In Which It apa to 12 therefore submit to 10 you tb the r t j t of the ol 1 the ALBERT fl City lly n CASh CASU nu Cub Cash In hands handl of city treasur er Sp 10 1100 1 belongIng J I I to 10 contingent or general fundS Actual and estimated from lIcense and nd laneous sources for October November December 1900 Due from Salt lAke county count for or city tat taxes of at 1900 contingent expense fund 5 outstanding Sept ao i representing indebted indebtedness ness nelll of at general proper S 8 Tf O claims claim for far ix x pensel to Sept JO 1900 drawn during Octo October ber for tor expendItures Incurred to Sept 30 10 1900 1800 4 estimated expenditures pen for ar months month ot of Cob Octo Cobber ber November and ber 1900 as al follows follow I on oil bonds bond eo Department and expenses bated upon of af hea heds ot of d departments submitted to city olty auditor alance excise ot ef revenue over 11 MAJORITY REPORT ADOPTED The minority report of the committee wu wal then taken laken up and read after atler which a motion was made b seconded b by ernstrom to 10 substitute the report for the majority report The motion wo was put without debate and nd was Wall lost the roll call showIng four nyse nee and six Ix lIotI as 11 tl fol folios ios Held Iteld N J Beatt Canning Davis Dals Hew Hewlett lilt lett Buckle 5 thin thit mo moved the Ihl adoption ot of the Ule maJoritY report wanted to know It If It was WRIthe the of at the majority In the Council to vote vole It through mistakes and andall all President said laid that the mo molion molion lion curried with It mistakes and ev everything els else na AS the chair chairman man ot of h he finance tIt Ih to close the debate anti and u as nl n nother other olber took the floor proceeded tu to speak 1119 speech was A tire ck upon the thc two mInority members ot of the committee In Inthe the cour course of bl his lal he t said that ernstrom had voted ott for tor nearly all at atthe the complained of and ex e himself by saying that the chair chairman man or of the finance committee hat had not informed him as al to their nature but the chairman ot of that committee was 11 not running I a fr free e moved that thaI the report be r referred to the committee on pal laws This was by Thorns Thum and Hewlett and nd on roll roil call all w wai lit Iy by bya n a part vote the five ayes AntI eight noer noerA noerA A motion to adopt the was BI put and carried by the tho same BalM 01 ote a as follows follow Canning Divis Hew Hewlett hewlett lett Robertson Thomas Whittemore o C n it Reid I lOdgar tIar Howe The Council then to meet next |
