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Show B xCONMATP OF APPOINTEES B FIRST OFFICIAL STEP OF CITY COMMISSION; PLANS OUTLINED ' H Confirmation of appointments in H varlona city departments was thp first H official move of the city commission H i in morning when it met in the initial H buslnsss meeCJnic with Coimfalsslohsr I " Arthur K. Lariion occupying the chair formerly held by t'hns Fiygare. T iii.-. Maynr Frank Irtancla will aci as H superintendent oi j.ub'.i'- attain and H i nance, water supply and waterworks H Commissioner J Kaj Ward will con-. H tlnue-to direct the department of pub-i lie safets Arthur V Larson, new memher ofl H tlic hoard. Will he superintendent Oil HI :. rots. public Improvements, park and public property. HH The appointment of Walter S. Crn- ven as cits engineer was confirmed. IflH Gcorfs H- Welch officially hecume bu-fl bu-fl pervisor of city streets, A. E. W'IUkui H was retained as city scxtun and Hag- HjH hert Anderson became, .superintendent HH oi Lorln Parr park, with confirn.a-Hfl confirn.a-Hfl turns made by the hoard. The reanpolnomsnt Of A. T. Corey HjMJ ns asslst.-ini superintendent of watsr- Hl werks. C. T Koons .-is city treasurer. HB and C. DeWplf as city recorder were HB its., confirmed by the commission. k nis i'i'i: i.n Honds of Mayor Francis. Commla-K9 Commla-K9 sioner Larson and City Auditor Mary E Farley were approved. M 7 Following this action the board pai- K I il In, 'L-.l. i: uutll, J : he ehda- tlon had been made by Chief of Police Po-lice Jonathan Jones It was explained that Duihley was sentenced to bu das in Jail November "5. on a charge uf having liquor in his possession. Explanation Ex-planation WS8 further made that Dum-ley Dum-ley was with several youths outside a dancehall when a bpttle of llguor was passeil. Duinh y lini j,.:. taken the bottle In his hand when an officer appeared ap-peared and placed him under arrest. It was held that Duftlley was rather a victim of circumstances and for this reason Chief Jones asked termination of his sentence-An sentence-An application of I. E. Richardson seeking a license to open a dance hall at 2408 Washington avenue was referred re-ferred to the police chief for Investigation Investi-gation nnd report. TO VISIT STOCK SHOW At adjournment the commissioners Announced they would visit the Mgden Livestock show and the poultry display dis-play of the Weber County Poultry association as-sociation In a body. While today's meeting was the first in which business was transact! the i iimmisslon met yesterday noon In1 Mayor Francis' ofl ice to recognize Mr I Larson who at that hour officially too office. Commissioner Larson was cordially cor-dially gre'ed as the new hoard member. mem-ber. It W84 Informally agreed that ex-l pens retrenchment Is to he the watch-' word of the present year. The hoard listened to the reading of the annual ,report of the Ogden civil service commission com-mission which was presented In person per-son by J. D Eldredge, Jr., chairman;' C. J. Humphries and W. M Ligg.r.t. A I . ' aienieni wan maue oy .mi. iMareugu Q in which It was announced that C 0 DeWolf had been appointed aeoretarj V of the commission to succeed Mr- Larson who resigned. RJ31 EUE n HM1 M FAVORI l i There was unanimous agreement ' that the city's affairs would be carried out harmoniously by ''ho commission during 1922. Each commissioner ln formally voiced hie ipr .i of the re-i rtrenchnuut policy and vlrtualh agreed I that his department would give full support to the plan The need of a city , budget was suggested by Mr. Larson and found YaV'OT with ChS hoard iiiiu-j bers. . 1 The meeting of the board was pre-' pre-' sided o '?r by Mayor l-'ranels. who welcomed th- new member, saying i hat i he beltevtf iht-ir asAoclatlons in the fvit,ure would be congenial :ind har- monloiia Commissioner Ward welcomed Mr. Laron into the commission. He said that while th members could not al-Vrays al-Vrays axr upon certain things yet they would all work in harmony for the good of Ihc city. Commissioner Larson expressed his appreciation to the members of hc board arid added that he knew what the problems were that lh- would face He expressed the hope thai they would .ilv.i' be harmonious. II-said II-said that he knew he city was not u the very be.n of condition and that It would require considerable economy and retrenchment. The city has about. 9400,000 to operate upon, The increased in-creased bomb', i indebtedness will nec-essitsi'e nec-essitsi'e the-creation of a Bfnklng fund Hi' said that in bis noliilon th ioin- mission should i educe expenses about Il5 per rent this year BUDGET! VDVOCATJ i I One suggestion offered bj Mr. Iar-' Iar-' son wa.s for the lmmedalj nreation of the budget, which was In force last administration during Che period Mr I Larsorl was city auditor. Il also (recommended the establishment of a I centralized purchasing department-i department-i Mr. Larson Said that he did not be-j be-j llevc a commissioner should make n I individual purchase of more than $100 I I nr saving that could tie made o the I City, Mr. I.rson said, would b0 for the purchasing of supplies, in quantl-i quantl-i tics and enough to last three months, j In this wa a saving could be effected. Mayor Francis and Commissioner ; Ward Indorsed the remarks of the j new commissioner and agreed there I must be a scaling down'of expenditures expendi-tures and thus avoid the necessity of increasing taxes in the city.' They agreed retrenchment was n duty. CI1 IX 8ER It K COMMISSION The civil service commission report revlewod the work of th" commission during ihc past year li showed ex-1 I pi nditures of the commission for thej year to he 799.95, which Included metclngs. printing of rules and the holding of examinations Chairman Eldredge nnd William Piggott of the Commission expressed the opinion that the civil service was one of the best chings possible for the city. It insured permanency of position for the .mem -hers of Che police and fire departments as long as they did their work prop-, erly The members expressed their appreciation for the cooperation of Commissioner Ward and Chief Jonn-j thon Jones of the police departments and Chief George A. Graves of the! fire department. IMl'KoN EMENT VOT1 1) The Commission members closed their report by slaving: "The com-I com-I mission has endeavored to Lo helpful in every way possible to the departments depart-ments with which they have to do; and we are Aery pleased to say that we have enjoyed the earnest and faiths ful cooperation of all the officers und employes of the entire department of public safety, us well as t hut of the board of commissioners. w- nr,. gratified grat-ified to note Improvement In the geri- era I erruiency in both departments even at .hls early date; and we foci I confident that oa the purposes and operations of the civil service law be-! come more thoroughly understood, there will continue to be a more rapid improvement in efficiency." Mrs. Mary K. Farley this morning assunieil het dulies as city aud.V.or. yppointments of C P. Gllmore as deputy dep-uty and Mr. Masle Fckhart as clerk, will probably be sent to the commission commis-sion for confirmation tomorrow. |