124 Ur. mick G. Patterson. Dam Settlement of the Dam. A. L. Givens License fee refunded. Fire Insurance Credit for 1919. Haywood Clemons License. --- Page break --- 125 before the Council and granted by a vote of 5 yeas, no nays. The Mayor laid before the City Council the following resolution: Whereas, through an oversight of the City Clerk, there was drawn, under date of Dec. 31, 1918, Warrant No. 685 out of the Oakwood Cemetery Fund of this city, in favor of Fred Sterzing, Assessor and Collector, in payment for United States internal revenue stamps in the sum of $10.00; and Whereas, said amount should have been drawn out of the Cemetery Purchase Fund; therefore RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN: That the City Clerk be and he is hereby instructed to rectify the said error by drawing a warrant out of the Cemetery Purchase Fund, for the said amount of $10.00, and depositing the same with the City Assessor and Collector to the credit of the Oakwood Cemetery Fund. The resolution was adopted by a vote of 5 yeas, no nays. APPROVED, Jan. 23, 1919: A. P. Wooldridge, Mayor. The Mayor laid before the Council, for final adoption, his budget for the year 1919, the same having been read the first time one week ago. Councilman Haynes read the following statement: "Considering the financial condition of the city, I believe it Budget Haynes 5- is all wrong and an injustice to the taxpayers for this Council to conMotion to tinue to create new salaried positions and boards, simply at the request strike out of every petition filed with us. In compliance with such requests, sev[illegible] eral more ornamental than useful positions have been created, which in the interest of economy could well be dispensed with, and now it is proposed to create another such ornamental office to censor the picture shows, which office if created will grow in expense as it continues, and prove of no real benefit to the public, as the pictures shown here are already censored and passed by the National Board of Censors and the censors of other large cities before they reach here; hence I do not believe there is any real need of such an office for this city at the present time, and I therefore move that the Mayor's budget be amended by striking out the item for a paid censor." Mr. Haynes' motion to strike out the item for a paid censor failed Motion by the following vote: Yeas, Councilmen Bartholomew and Haynes, 2; nays, to create Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Anthony and Powell, 3. paid censor The Mayor moved that the office of paid censor be created. This failed motion (requiring the vote of four-fifths of the Council) failed by the following vote: Yeas, Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Anthony and Powell, 3; nays, Councilmen Bartholomew and Haynes, 2. The Mayor then laid before the Council the following resolution, which had been read the first time on Jan. 16, 1919, and laid over for one week: RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN, TEXAS: Mayor's Budget That the budget of the Mayor of the City of Austin, Texas, for 1919 Approved the year 1919, bearing date the 16th day of January, 1919, and being of G. C. [illegible] the total amount of $921,539.07, be and the same is hereby received, filed, adopted and approved. The resolution was passed by a vote of 5 yeas, no nays. APPROVED, Jan. 23, 1919: A. P. Wooldridge, Mayor. --- Page break --- 126 The budget for the year 1919 is as follows: BUDGET FOR THE CITY OF AUSTIN, TEXAS, FOR THE YEAR A. D. 1919. To the Honorable City Council, City of Austin, Texas. Gentlemen: I submit below a budget of the City of Austin for the year A. D. 1919, of which I ask your approval. The assessed values of this city for the year A. D. 1918 upon which the appropriations in the budget for the year 1919 are chiefly based amount to $25,000,000.00. The income from ad valorem taxation in the General Fund is $257,500.00. The income from ad valorem taxation in the Interest and Sinking Fund is $183,125.00. The total income from ad valorem taxation for all municipal purposes (exclusive of the schools) is $440,625.00. The income from ad valorem taxation in support of the public free schools is $106,875.00. The total income from ad valorem (or property) taxation for all purposes for the year 1919 is $547,500.00. In addition to the income of this city from ad valorem taxation is the income from the operation of its Water, Light and Power Plant. The income of the Water, Light and Power Plant, including cash on hand January 1st, 1919, is $354,128.45. The income of this city in the General Fund derived from these two principal sources is to be added the income to be derived from certain other miscellaneous sources, including certain cash balances on hand January 1st, 1919, as will appear in the tabulated statement which follows. This miscellaneous income amounts to $19,616.85. Our income from ad valorem taxation is based upon assessed values of $25,000,000.00. At the present rate of taxation of one dollar on the one hundred dollars, and with the proceeds thus derived calculated for realization at 95% of their face value, this ad valorem taxation in the General Fund thus derived is, as stated above, $257,500.00. Realizations for the Interest and Sinking Fund are obtained in the same way as is followed in deriving the income from ad valorem taxation for the General Fund, the only difference being that the rate of taxation for Interest and Sinking Fund purposes is 75¢ on the one hundred dollars of assessed property values instead of one dollar on the one hundred dollars of assessed property values. $100,000.00 of bonds were voted by the taxpayers of this city on June 18th, 1918, for the construction of a sewage disposal plant. On January 1st, 1919, there was an unexpended balance on hand to the credit of that fund amounting to $92,347.41. The total estimated income from all sources and for all purposes of this city, exclusive of the schools, for the year 1919, is --- Page break --- the sum of $921,539.07. This gross income of $921,539.07 is derived from the sources set out in the following table and is apportioned by charter or ordinance, or both, and by this budget, as appears in this same table. Out of this gross income of $921,539.07 the following stated charter, ordinance or recommended assignments should be made: (1) $184,625.00 goes to the Interest and Sinking Fund; (2) $ 79,130.43 goes to the Street Fund; (3) $ 8,213.65 goes to the Sanitary Sewer Fund; (4) $ 92,347.41 goes to the Sewage Disposal Plant Fund; (5) $ 9,760.00 goes to the Park Fund; (6) $ 5,525.60 goes to the Cemetery Fund; (7) $ 10,190.93 goes to the Cemetery Purchase and Care Fund; (8) $346,321.05 goes chiefly to the Water, Light and Power Fund. From this amount of $346,321.05 is to be deducted certain amounts as hereinafter stated for the benefit of the General Expense Fund. The total of these amounts thus deducted and assigned is $23,870.10. Making this subtraction, there is left net in this fund the sum of $322,450.95. These eight apportionments, amounting to $736,114.07 out of the city’s gross revenues amounting to $921,539.07 must be set apart before we can begin to consider the city’s other urgent needs. Making the proper subtraction, there is left the sum of $185,425.00, and out of this balance of $185,425.00 all of the remaining ex- penses of the city government, exclusive of the schools, must be paid. Out of this balance of $185,425.00 the expenses of the Mayor’s Office, the Law Department, the Public Health, the Tax and Sanitary Department, the care of the Public Buildings and Grounds, other than the Parks and Cemetery, the Fire Department, the Police Department, the City Hospital, and all extraordinary (often unanticipated yet imperatively needed) expenses and all contingent expenses of every character and description must be paid, and out of this remaining balance for general purposes the deficit of the city remaining uncovered at the end of the year 1918 and amounting to $15,456.10 must be paid. The thing simply cannot be done. The appropriations recommended below are chiefly based upon estimates furnished me by the heads of the several departments of the city government. I have been compelled by the lack of funds to decline many reasonable and some urgent requests which I should have otherwise been glad to allow. You will perceive that the income from the Water, Light and Power Plant, amounting to $346,321.05, is greater by the amount of $55,882.84 than the total other income of the city derived from all sources, except, of course, the school tax and the interest and sinking fund taxes. As a consequence, a considerable proportion of the gross income of the Water, Light and Power Department should be appropriated to or held in reserve for other important municipal needs of the city outside of the Water, Light and Power Department. --- Page break --- 128 As is known to yourselves, the School Tax, after being annually collected by the Assessor and Collector of this city, is turned over to the School Board to be disbursed by that Board. I beg to here recommend by departments the appropriations submitted below. Recapitulation General Expense Fund Appropriated Expended Balances 1908 30,000.00 30,000.00 00.00 1909 30,000.00 29,770.81 229.19 1910 30,000.00 28,819.12 1,180.88 1911 30,000.00 29,485.49 514.51 1912 30,000.00 29,400.00 600.00 1913 30,000.00 29,600.00 400.00 1914 30,000.00 29,700.00 300.00 1915 30,000.00 29,500.00 500.00 1916 30,000.00 29,000.00 1,000.00 1917 30,000.00 29,500.00 500.00 1918 30,000.00 30,000.00 00.00 (4) No Change For 1918. " Values For 1919. " Values for 1918 not yet sum of $322,450.95. Appropriations made for the year 1919. $25,000,000.00 assessed [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] Sundry Refunds 7,748.33 Miscellaneous Collections Water, Light and Power Department 10,512.80 Revenue Burton Springs 1,250.00 Interest and Sinking Fund 1918 178,125.00 188,428.00 70,130.43 9,080.43 Interest and Sink- ing Fund 1917 & Prior Years 5,000.00 Interest on Daily Balances 1,000.00 Totals 281,888.07 188,428.00 70,130.43 9,080.43 TransfersNot Totals - * To assist the Sanitary Sewer Fund, and to pay for the uses of that Department, from the gross earnings of the Austin, has been added to the Water, Light and Power Fund in the sum of $7,807.40. This has been deducted and placed to the credit of the Water, Light and Power Department, and $15,000.00 has been added to the Sewer Fund. In addition to the appropriations from the Water, Light and Power Fund, for the deficiencies in the General Expense Fund, and $15,000.00 is recommended to be deducted in the appropriations for the year 1919 and placed to the credit of the Sanitary Sewer Fund, as shown above. These deductions from the Water, Light and Power Department are recommended to be deducted in the appropriations for the year 1919 and placed to the credit of the Sanitary Sewer Fund, as shown above. --- Page break --- STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND APPORTIONMENT OF SAME FOR 1919. Receipts General Street Sanitary Water Park Cemetery Cemetery Water Interest Expense Fund Sewer & Disposal Fund Fund Purchase Light and Fund Fund Plant and and Sinking Fund Care Power Fund Fund Fund Cash on hand Jan. 1, 1919 $108,289.04 $180.43 $1,086.42 $82,347.41 $364.62 $375.00 $2,600.00 $7,904.38 General Revenue Taxes 1918 $227,500.00 $154,375.00 $71,250.00 $7,125.00 $4,750.00 General Revenue Taxes 1919 5,000.00 3,000.00 1,500.00 150.00 100.00 Taxes 1917 and Prior Years 10,000.00 6,500.00 3,000.00 300.00 200.00 Interest, Costs and Penalties 5,000.00 3,250.00 1,500.00 150.00 100.00 License Fees 2,500.00 2,500.00 From Patients 2,000.00 2,000.00 Hospital Inspection 8,000.00 8,000.00 Fees Corporation 2,500.00 2,500.00 Pound Fees 500.00 500.00 Dog Tax & Permit 100.00 100.00 Corporation Court 1,250.00 1,250.00 Fees Public Weighing 1,200.00 1,200.00 Interest on Daily Balances (General Fund) 500.00 500.00 Interest on Daily Balances (Street Fund) 500.00 500.00 Interest on Daily Balances (Sanitary Sewer Fund) 150.00 150.00 Miscellaneous (General Fund) 750.00 750.00 Income from Public Utilities 3,000.00 3,000.00 Sale of Cemetery Annex Lots 7,500.00 7,500.00 From Water Earn- ings 122,544.79 122,544.79 From Light Earn- ings 147,092.68 147,092.68 From Power Earn- ings 42,468.83 42,468.83 Interest on Daily Balances, Water, Light and Power Department 1,000.00 1,000.00 Sale of Motors, Material, Com- missions, etc. 13,611.70 13,611.70 Sundry Refunds 7,748.20 7,748.20 Miscellaneous Collections, Water, Light and Power Department 10,512.80 10,512.80 Revenue Barton Springs 1,250.00 1,250.00 Interest and Sink- ing Fund 1918 178,125.00 $178,125.00 Interest and Sink- ing Fund 1917 & Prior Years 5,000.00 5,000.00 Interest on Daily Balances 1,500.00 1,500.00 Totals - $921,539.07 $185,425.00 $79,130.43 $2,086.42 $92,347.41 $8,079.83 $5,525.60 $10,190.93 $354,128.45 $184,625.00 Transfers* 6,127.23 1,680.17 7,807.40 Net Totals $921,539.07 $185,425.00 $79,130.43 $8,213.65 $92,347.41 $9,760.00 $5,525.60 $10,190.93 $346,321.05 $184,625.00 * To assist the Sanitary Sewer Fund for the current year, $6,127.23, or 5% of the estimated Water Earnings of the City of Austin, has been added to the Sanitary Sewer Fund, and to assist the Park Fund in its imperative needs, $1,680.17 has been deducted from the gross income of the Water, Light and Power Department and added to the Park Fund. The total of these transfers, amounting to $7,807.40, has been deducted from the gross income of the Water, Light and Power Plant, leaving a net balance of $346,321.05. --- Page break --- sed (Streets) 500.00 150.00 150.00 Innsous its. 750.00 750.00 ing Inspection 1,000.00 1,000.00 from Public ties Cos. 3,000.00 3,000.00 Cemetery Lots 7,500.00 7,500.00 Water Earnings 122,544.70 122,544.70 Light Earnings 147,092.68 147,092.68 Power Earnings 42,466.83 42,466.83 Station Daily sales, Water, Light and Power Department 1,000.00 1,000.00 for Meters, Special, Com- missions, etc. 13,611.70 13,611.70 Refunds 7,745.33 7,745.33 Miscellane ous collections, Water, Light and Power Department 10,512.80 10,512.80 from Barton Savings 1,250.00 1,250.00 from and Sinking Fund 1918 178,125.00 $178,125.00 from and Sink- ing Fund 1917 for Years 5,000.00 5,000.00 Interest on Daily Balances 1,500.00 1,500.00 ls - $321,539.07 $185,425.00 $70,130.43 $2,086.42 $92,347.41 $8,079.83 $8,525.60 $10,100.03 $354,128.45 $184,625.00 sfors# 1 8,127.23 1,880.17 7,807.40 Totals $321,539.07 $185,425.00 $70,130.43 $2,013.05 $92,347.41 $9,760.00 $8,525.60 $10,100.03 $346,321.05 $184,625.00 To assist the Sanitary Sewer Fund for the current year, $8,127.23, or 5% of the estimated Water Earnings of the City of End has been added to the Sanitary Sewer Fund, and to assist the Park Fund in its imperative needs, $1,880.17 has been deducted from the gross income of the Water, Light and Power Department and added to the Park Fund. The total of these transfers, amounting 7,807.40, has been deducted from the gross earnings of the Water, Light and Power Plant, leaving a net balance of $344,321.05 for the Water, Light and Power Fund, as shown above. In addition to these deductions from the Water, Light and Power Fund, $8,414.00 is recommended to be transferred to cover deficiencies in the appropriations made for the year 1919 in behalf of the departments maintained exclusively out of the General Fund, and $15,488.10 is recommended to be deducted from the Water, Light and Power Fund to cover the deficiency in the Water Expense Fund for the year 1918. After making these deductions, there is left in the Water, Light and Power Fund for the use of that Department the net sum of $322,450.05. Assessed Values for 1919 - $25,000,000.00 General Fund for 1919 - $185,425.00 " " 1918 25,000,000.00 " " 1918 187,253.68 No Change for 1919- Decrease for 1919 - -$1,828.68 Percentage of Decrease, 9/10 of 1% (4) --- Page break --- 134 "0" DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND PUBLIC PROPERTY E. C. Bartholomew, Superintendent One-half Salary of Superintendent (balance to be paid by . . . $ 1,000.00 Water, Light and Power Department) Sub-Head No. 1 (City Hall) Salary of Janitor at $70.00 per month . . . $ 840.00 Fuel . . . 600.00 Improvements and Repairs . . . 500.00 Ice . . . 100.00 Lamps . . . 25.00 Incidentals . . . 50.00 Total for City Hall, Sub-Head No. 1 . . . $ 2,115.00 Last Year's Appropriations . . . $ 2,045.00 Increase for 1919 . . . $ 70.00 These expenditures are paid out of the General Expense Fund. Sub-Head No. 2 Parks (Wooldridge Park) Salary of Foreman of Park Force and Keeper of Wooldridge Park at $85.00 per month . . . $ 1,020.00 Soil, Gravel and Grading . . . 100.00 Incidentals . . . 100.00 Total for Wooldridge Park . . . $ 1,220.00 Last Year's Appropriations . . . $ 1,428.42 Decrease for 1919 . . . $ 208.42 (Pease Park) Salary of Keeper at $70.00 per month . . . $ 840.00 Incidentals . . . 50.00 Total for Pease Park . . . $ 890.00 Last Year's Appropriations . . . $ 820.00 Increase for 1919 . . . $ 70.00 (East Avenue Parks) North Salary of Keeper at $70.00 per month . . . $ 840.00 Soil, Gravel and Grading . . . 50.00 Tools and Incidentals . . . 50.00 Total for East Avenue Park--North . . . $ 940.00 Last Year's Appropriations . . . $ 845.00 Increase for 1919 . . . $ 95.00 South Salary of Keeper at $70.00 per month . . . $ 840.00 Soil, Gravel and Grading . . . 25.00 Shrubs . . . 25.00 Tools and Incidentals . . . 50.00 Total for East Avenue Park--South . . . $ 940.00 Last Year's Appropriations . . . $ 1,184.16 Decrease for 1919 . . . $ 244.16 --- Page break --- 133 Sub-Head No. 3 Cemeteries (Oakwood Cemetery) Salary of Sexton at $50.00 per month . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 600.00 Labor in caring for Cemetery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,500.00 Soil, Gravel and Grading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250.00 Tools and Incidentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150.00 Shrubbery and Planting Beds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.00 Surplus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 925.60 Total for Oakwood Cemetery, including surplus . . . . . . $ 5,525.60 Last Year's Appropriations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 6,844.58 Decrease for 1919 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 1,318.98 All of the expenditures of this Department are paid out of a 2% assignment of ad valorem taxes. (Cemetery Purchase and Improvement Fund) Labor in caring for Cemetery Annex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 1,500.00 Trees and Shrubs and Planting Same in Cemetery . . . . . . . . 100.00 Soil, Gravel and Grading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250.00 Tools and Incidentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.00 Unassigned Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,240.93 Total for Cemetery Purchase and Improvement Fund . . . . . $10,190.93 Last Year's Appropriations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 6,303.68 Increase for 1919 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 3,887.25 During the year 1918, Lots Nos. 1 and 2 in Block No. 10, Outlet No. 36, Division "B" of the City of Austin, Texas, were purchased of Gustav Wesenberg for the price of Three Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($3,500.00) to complete the rectangular form of the Cemetery Annex. The City of Austin, for the Cemetery Purchase and Care Fund, owns three United States Second Liberty Loan Bonds, each of the denomination of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) and bearing 4% interest per annum from date, said bonds being Nos. 279168, 279170 and 279171. All of the appropriations under this head are to be paid out of the income from the sale of lots in Oakwood Annex. Sub-Head No. 4 (Water, Light and Power Department) One-half Salary of Superintendent (balance to be paid out of the General Fund). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 1,000.00 Salaries Office Salary of Assistant Superintendent for eleven months at $200.00 per month . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 2,200.00 Salary of Cashier at $166 2/3 per month . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000.00 " " one Assistant Cashier at $125.00 per month . . . 1,500.00 " " " " " $110.00 " " . . . 1,320.00 " " Chief Bookkeeper at $135.00 per month . . . . . . . 1,620.00 Salaries of four Assistant Bookkeepers at $100.00 per month each . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,800.00 Salary of one General Clerk at $100.00 per month . . . . . . 1,200.00 Amount Forward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $14,640.00 --- Page break --- 135 Amount brought forward: Water, Light and Power Dep't $180,300.00 Payment of Seventh Annual Installment of Sewer Certificates, $10,000.00, and interest on balance $30,- 000.00, at 5%, $1,500.00 . . . . . . . . 11,500.00 Miscellaneous, including refund on overcharges of Water, Light and Power . . . . . . . . . . . 1,100.00 Incidentals, including tools, auto repairs, ice, chlorine, packing, telegraph and telephone accounts, etc. . . 5,000.00 Interest on $100,000.00 of Barton Springs purchase note at 6% . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,000.00 Redemption of Bonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39,000.00 Total for Other Expenses . . . . . . . . . . $242,900.00 Balance unappropriated . . . . . . . . . . . $ 59,612.45 (Out of this unappropriated balance of $59,612.45, $15,456.10 is recommended to be appropriated to the credit of the General Expense Fund to cover the deficit in that fund for the year 1918, amounting to $15,456.10, and $6,127.23, or 5% of estimated Water Receipts for 1919, be transferred to the Sanitary Sewer Fund, and $1,680.17 be transferred to the Park Fund, and $8,414.00 be transferred to the General Expense Fund to assist in covering the necessary expenses of that fund for the year 1919) Total Appropriations for Sub-Head No. 4, including unappropriated balance . . . . . . . . . $354,128.45 Last Year's Appropriations . . . . . . . . . . $362,599.60 Decrease for 1919 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 8,471.15 All of the expenditures of the Water, Light and Power Department are paid out of the receipts of that Department. Total Appropriations for Department "C" . . . . . . $382,719.98 derived as follows: City Hall, including one-half salary of Superintendent from General Fund $ 3,115.00 Park Fund from Ad Valorem Taxation . . . . . . 9,760.00 Cemetery Fund from Ad Valorem Taxation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,525.60 Cemetery Purchase Fund from Sale of lots in Oakwood Cemetery . . . . . . . . . 10,190.93 Water, Light and Power Department from receipts of that Department . . . . . . 354,128.45 Last Year's Appropriations for Department "C" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $386,262.26 Decrease for 1919 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 3,542.28 "D" DEPARTMENT OF STREETS AND PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS P. W. Powell, Superintendent Salary of Superintendent . . . . . . . . . . . $ 2,000.00 General Street Work Office Salary of City Engineer at $200.00 per month . . . . . $ 2,400.00 " " Bookkeeper for Street and Sewer Departments at $125.00 per month . . . . . . . . . 1,500.00 " " Stenographer at $12.50 per month . . . . . . . 150.00 Total Salaries for Office . . . . . . . . . . $ 4,050.00 --- Page break --- 140 Amount brought forward: Fire Department . . . . $31,660.00 Hose Company No. 6 Salary of Captain at $90.00 per month . . . . . . $ 1,080.00 " " Lieutenant at $87.50 per month . . . . . . 1,050.00 Salaries of two Hosemen at $85.00 per month each . . . 2,040.00 Maintenance of Hose Company No. 6: Feed, Repairs and Incidentals at $50.00 per mo. . . 600.00 Hose Company No. 7 Salary of Captain at $90.00 per month . . . . . . $ 1,080.00 " " Lieutenant at $87.50 per month . . . . . . 1,050.00 Salaries of two Hosemen at $85.00 per month each . . . 2,040.00 Maintenance of Hose Company No. 7: Feed, Repairs and Incidentals at $50.00 per month 600.00 Special Appropriations Repairs to Fire Stations . . . . . . . . . . . 500.00 Maintenance of Fire Chief's Automobile . . . . . . 300.00 One Thousand Feet of 2½" Fire Hose at $1.25 per foot . 1,250.00 For Hire of Extra Horse in case of disability . . . . . 50.00 Miscellaneous Expenses . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000.00 Total for Fire Department . . . . . . . . . $44,300.00 Last Year's Appropriations . . . . . . . . . $46,717.60 Decrease for 1919 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 2,417.00 SUB-DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH I Administration Salary of City Physician at $125.00 per month . . . . $ 1,500.00 Gasoline, Lubricating Oil and Incidentals in service of automobile at $10.00 per month . . . . . . . 120.00 Salary of Assistant City Physician at $75.00 per month . 900.00 Gasoline, Lubricating Oil and Incidentals in service of automobile at $10.00 per month . . . . . . . . 120.00 Salary of one Pure Food Inspector for Dairies and Slaughter Houses at $62.50 per month . . . . . . 750.00 Salary of one Wholetime Woman Pure Food Inspector for Hotels, Restaurants, Boarding Houses, Grocery Stores, Shops, Ice Cream Parlors and other Public Places, at $85.00 per month . . . . . . . . 1,020.00 For Gasoline, Lubricating Oil and Incidentals in service of automobile at $10.00 per month . . . . . . . 120.00 Total Appropriations for Administration (SubDepartment of Public Health) . . . . . . . . $ 4,530.00 Last Year's Appropriations . . . . . . . . . $ 3,575.00 Increase for 1919 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 955.00 II City Hospital Salary of Superintendent of Nurses at $90.00 per month $ 1,080.00 " " Head Surgical Nurse at $80.00 per month . . . . 960.00 Salaries of seventeen Pupil Nurses at $8.50 per month each 1,734.00 Salary of Matron at $60.00 per month . . . . . . . . 720.00 " " Cook at $30.00 per month . . . . . . . . . . 360.00 " " Yardman at $35.00 per month . . . . . . . . . 420.00 Amount forward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 5,274.00 --- Page break --- 141 Amount brought forward: City Hospital $ 5,274.00 Salary of Orderly at $35.00 per month 420.00 Other Help as may be needed 500.00 Gas, Coal and Wood 1,500.00 Meat, Vegetables, Milk, Butter, Ice, etc. 6,000.00 Drugs and Medical and Surgical Supplies 3,000.00 Dry Goods 750.00 Groceries 4,000.00 Laundry 1,300.00 Repairs to New Building 250.00 Repairs to Old Building 250.00 Water Heater and Apparatus for Old Building 250.00 Miscellaneous 1,250.00 Total Appropriations for City Hospital (Sub-Department of Public Health) $24,744.00 Last Year's Appropriations $21,010.00 Increase for 1919 $ 3,734.00 SUMMABY OF DEPARTMENT "E" Salary of Superintendent $ 2,000.00 Police Department, less Salary of Superintendent 40,260.00 Fire Department 44,300.00 Sub-Department of Public Health--Administration 4,530.00 Sub-Department of Public Health--City Hospital 24,744.00 Total Appropriations for Department "E" $115,834.00 Last Year's Appropriations $115,562.60 Increase for 1919 $ 271.40 All of the expenditures of this Department are paid out of the General Expense Fund. MISCELLANEOUS APPROPRIATIONS PAYABLE OUT OF THE GENERAL FUND Special Appropriation for Public Health $ 1,000.00 For Salary of Censor of Public Amusements in Austin for ten months at $75.00 per month 750.00 For Salary of Woman War Worker in Community Service for two months at $50.00 per month 100.00 To Cover Deficit in General Fund for 1918 15,456.10 For General Expenses [illegible] Total Miscellaneous Expenses $17,306.10 I respectfully call attention to the following facts: There is not enough money available in the income of the City of Austin, Texas, for the year 1919 to pay the indispensable appropriations for the city for the year 1919 and take any important steps for- ward in the way of municipal progress. Intensified economy cannot largely be practiced except at great detriment to the public service. This city is growing in population and there is increasing demand upon the city for increased public service of one character or another, but the income of the city is actually diminishing rather than increasing, so that deficits under present conditions are inevitable. --- Page break --- 142 The people of this city must sooner or later realize that to undertake to conduct the affairs of this city in an efficient manner they must have more income. Austin needs annually an income in the General Fund of at least $50,000.00 more than it now has. More income calls for either an increase in the tax rate or an increase in assessed values. I prefer the method of an honest increase of assessed values. It is a more sensible method and a much fairer method towards all. An itemized statement of the income of the city and an itemized statement of its expenditures for the year gone by will be compiled and printed within the next thirty days by the Superintendent of Receipts, Disbursements and Accounts. In this item- ized statement, the tax payers of the city will see where their money comes from and how it is paid out. I urge the citizens of Austin, and especially the tax payers, to read this statement critically. I attach hereto and make a part hereof a summary of the probable receipts of the city and of the probable expenditures by departments of the city for the year 1919, other than contingent and unforeseen expenses. These contingent expenses will always come, but nobody can foresee their character, urgency or amount. Respectfully submitted, (Signed) A. P. Wooldridge, Mayor. Austin, Texas, January 16, 1919. SUMMARY OF RECEIPTS AND RECOMMENDED APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE CITY OF AUSTIN FOR THE YEAR 1919, OTHER THAN THOSE FOR THE PUBLIC FREE SCHOOLS. AMOUNTS SUBJECT TO APPROPRIATION AND SOURCES OF SAME From General Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $736,914.07 " Interest and Sinking Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184,625.00 " Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $921,539.07 APPROPRIATIONS RECOMMENDED "A" - Department of Public Affairs, A. P. Wooldridge, Mayor and Superintendent . . . . . . . . . . . $ 26,210.00 "B" - Department of Receipts, Disbursements and Accounts, H. L. Haynes, Superintendent . . . . . . 46,830.00 "C" - Department of Parks and Public Property, E. C. Bartholomew, Superintendent . . . . . . . . . . 344,478.48 "D" - Department of Streets and Public Improvements, F. W. Powell, Superintendent . . . . . . . . . . 179,691.49 "E" - Department of Police and Public Safety, W. B. Anthony, Superintendent . . . . . . . . . . . . 115,834.00 Interest and Sinking Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184,625.00 Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,870.10 Total Appropriations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $921,539.07 [Handwritten Signature] U. S. Martin City Clerk