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June 14th, 1932. 1,500 to 1,800. ~ Bro't forward 15,647.7o 15, 49. 5% 797.45 .Water Department - ~ 5,ooo. t 5,p0o. 5oo.oo ,~00. 1 2 ,~00. 168. O0 ,100. 2 ~ ,200. ~ 2~. O0 ,800. 6 10,800. 6~8. OO 1, o. 3 -5,04o. 252.oo 1,56o. 5 y. oo. 39o.oo Total reduction --- 2~252.00 The State officer~ receiving 0ity money are not included in my list of recom- mendations for the reason that I did not feel I had authority to ino!ude them. ~ The total savings for the six months will amount to approximately $21,500. in- cluding receht school out of $12,000. for remainder of school session of 1932. ' At this time I am not recommending any further cut in service. Our 6ity is oper- ating on an ex, rome minimum b~sis to render near the amount of service reouired'or expected by our citizens. It should be remembered that a city government service c~n n~t as a whole be compared with a private business, because a municipality exists for service only, while a business organization exists essentially for profit. In times of depression a private business executive can decrease his purchases on maZerials or other services to meet ex- penses until it may be carried~ to a point of 6omplete cessation of operations. A munic~oal- ity, however, is perpetual and it is essential that certain services be rendered. Therefore I feel that at this time rather than further cut the services rendered, whiah have previous- ly been D~ssed on by both the~Oouhcil and myself, a reduction in salaries is in'order for the reason that in the middle of this year we should safeguard as far as possible a de£ioit., Motion of Mr. Mayo to lay same on table until next meeting was adopted. Further motion of M~r. Mayo that such items in the 1932 ~udget that any member would wish to consider, will be t~ken up, was. adopted. NEW BUSI~SS - Bill of J. Shirley Hop~, State Game ~arden for $19~50 for destroying ~9 tab- less dogs, was allowed from fund in hands of Treasurer from collection of dog t~xes. Notice from H. A. H~u~t, Superint&ndent of Schools that t~e term of T. ~. Mat- thews, First District, H. A. Blankenship, Second District, Albe~t Lassiter, Third District, will expire July l, 1932. Motioh of Mr. Maupin t~at the election of members on table until next meeting, was adopted. The following letter was read: of the School Board be laid Mr. F. 0. Hanrahan,_ Oity Manager, Portsmouth, Va. Dear Sir:-- Attention: "June ?, 1932. Portsmouth Gity Oouncil. I wish to take up with you a matter reEarding the functioning o~ the Oivil Oourt of your city. I have tried to adjust this matter without brin~in~ it to you~ at- tention and · have even gone so far as ~o ~a~e same up with Judge O~thriell the present Justice of said 0curt but the relief was only temporary. The matter in disoute is the lack of cooperation and service on the part of your present Olerk o~ said co,rt. My complaint is not the only one as there are othe~ firms in Norfolka s well as Portsmouth who will bea~ me out in the statement which I will make and if necessary I shall be plemsed to furnish the names of several of them. I had occasion to ce~l the Olerk on the 'phone this afternoon asking her to kindly have a certain execution issued and to have same ready by Thursday at which time I would send my representative over there to get the execution and ~y for it. She answered that she did not think she could have it ready by then. The same trouble has been exper- ienced in the past. It is sometimes necessary to secure an execution on short notice in order to enforce collection of the judgment. When this arises it becomes necessary to se- cure the execution and act on it imme~iately. If the Oterk refuses to issue the execution and will do so only at her convenience, the creditor then may lose the ~ight to enforce payment of said judgment. Oertainly the Olerk of a Oou=t of record h~s more work to do than the Olerk of the Civil Ooo~t and when a certain execution is needed or any other paper is desLred, you can get same in a very few minutes without h~ving to wait two or three days or maybe a week for it as the Olerk Of the Oivil Oourt wants us to do. I do not believe that the Olerk of