CHAPTER XII. APPROPRIATIONS. In our first biennial report we discussed at considerable length the existing systems of appropriations for the institutions under our care. We attempted to show that the different methods required a large number of accounts to be kept, which would be wholly unnecessary under some general system applicable to all of the institutions. Without again stating in detail the objections to, and inconsistencies of the existing system, we urge a careful reading of Chapter III of our first biennial report for a full understanding of the situation. We recommend the plans stated on page 32 of said report, and the order of desirability is as there given. If the first plan, that of making all inmates wards of the state and providing for their support, transportation, clothing and all expenses of care of every description, including cost of all out-buildings, repairs and betterments, and providing for the levy of a general tax to meet all of said expenditures, giving the Board power to apportion the same for the use of the several institutions, as in their judgment may be necessary, is not acceptable, then provide for a per capita appropriation for all the institutions sufficient to cover all expenses, including support, contingent and repair, clothing, transportation and out-buildings. Under the first plan it would require the levy of a two and a half mill tax. Under the per capita plan it would require a monthly per capita appropriation for each institution as follows: 14. CO 17.co Hospital at Cherokee, for twelve months. Iowa Industrial Reformatory for Females, for twelve months. 12.00 15.00 1.000 00 The action of the last general assembly in preventing the charging off of the support fund balances was a material aid in the operation of the institutions. If such balances were to be charged off at the end of each month or year, it would be impossible, as our experience during the last biennial period shows, to operate the institutions. We must accumulate a surplus in the support fund of each institution during the spring and summer months to meet necessary expenditures during the fall and winter. The per capita appropriations for winter months would be insufficient to meet the expenditures which must be made. during that period. Every act appropriating money for the use and benefit of any institution under our charge should contain a clause authorizing this Board, in case the sum appropriated should exceed the sum needed for the particular purpose, to use the excess for any purpose it may deem proper in connection with the needs of that or any other institution under its care. Had it not been for a provision similar to this in the appropriation act of the last general assembly we should have been unable, owing to the increase in prices of certain materials, to have completed some of the improvements for which appropriations were made, as it is impossible, in view of varying prices of labor and materials, to always estimate the cost of improvements with even substantial accuracy. We present herewith a statement of appropriations asked as follows: GENERAL. To pay the actual expenses of persons from outside of the state who may be pro- To reimburse F. M. Powell for money paid out to procure the vacation of highways Total general..... SOLDIERS' HOME. For an Assembly Hall and for furnishing the same, and for carrying heat, light, water and sewer to the same.... .$ 18,000.00 For a quartermaster's building, furnishing and carrying heat, light, water and sewer to the same... 6,000.00 For a woman's hospital and for furnishing and carrying heat, light, water and sewer to the same. 8,000.00 For a laundry building and equipment and for carrying heat, light, water and sewer to the same... 6,000.00 ........ For a new kitchen, equipment, and for carrying heat, light, water and sewer to the same, and for a new chimney..... 6,000.00 For an ice house and cold storage and equipment........ For enlarging boiler house, new boilers, settings and connections and for new chimney.. 4. COO.00 17,500.00 For new bath tubs, stools, urinals and, connections for the main and old men's building Additional for gate house... 4,000.00 600.00 Additional for new gates and entrances. 1,500.00 Elevator for main building, connections, equipment and changes to make the same accessible..... 3,500.00 Total $ 75, ICO.00 SOLDIERS' ORPHANS' HOME. For a new boiler and engine house, smoke stack, coal house, equipment and con- For raising cottages and cottage furniture.. Total..... .$ 24,000.00 12,000.00 750.00 4,000.00 .$ 40,750.00 COLLEGE FOR THE BLIND. Repeal the law relating to "ordinary expense fund" and "current expense fund" and in lieu thereof enact a law fixing a per capita appropriation of $22 per month for nine months to be based upon the average actual attendance, the said appropriation to be made to take effect from September 1, 1901. For repairs to buildings, including porches, cupalo, etc.... Total........ 5,000,00 2,700.00 2,000.00 9,700.00 SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF. Repeal the statute relating to salary and support fund and enact in lieu thereof a law fixing a per capita allowance of $22 per month for nine months based upon the average attendance, said act to take effect from January 1, 1902. For coal house ..$ 2,500.00 . For closets in Industrial Schools and connections and addition to building for the same.......... For library, magazines and papers..... For laundry machinery... For type and tools for industrial work 500.00 For a watchman's clock and for installing the same.... For electrical power and carrying the same and for connections. For a new range and furnishings.. For fencing and fences....... For changing and putting in new heating apparatus in the west wing of the main building... Additional for soap house and vats For a contingent and repair fund.. Total INSTITUTION for feeble-minded CHILDREN. To erect, furnish and equip two double cottages for boys and for carrying heat, light, water and sewer to the same...... 400.00 1,200.00 400.00 300.00 400.00 600.00 500.00 1,000.00 300.00 2,000.00 3,000.00 $ 13,100.00 50,000.00 For roofing custodial and parts of main building with slate and for supporting and reinforcing roofs, and for plastering and repairs to custodial and parts of main building.... ........ For new boilers and generators, setting the same and for connections........ For a new bake oven ..... For a new brick barn...... For a new pump, pipe, motor and connections. For a contingent and repair fund ... .... 10,000.00 5,500.00 1,500.00 1,500,00 5,000.09 2,575.00 25,000.00 8,000.00 Total...... INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR BOYS. $ 109,075.00 Amend the law increasing the per capita appropriation to $10 per capita per month based upon actual average monthly population. For a school building, furnishing and equiping the same and for carrying heat, $17,500.00 For electric motors and connections .... For water closets, equipping the same and for making sewer and water connections 2, 100.00 1.750.00 1,500.00 600.00 For library, books, magazines and papers 3,500.00 1,000.00 For repairs to walls of main building and for painting walls, woodwork and tin and gutter work, and for repairs to woodwork For a new shop building and equipment, and for carrying heat, light, water and sewer to the same. For a new family building for small girls, furnishing and equipping the same, and for carrying heat, light, water and sewer to the same, and for connections .... For a system of storage for water, and for making the same available with proper pressure, fire pump, hose, appliances and connections For installing new closets, and plumbing and repairs..... For new deep well, pump, power, machinery and connections. For new boilers, settings and connections, and for purifying plant for water.... For new floors, repairs to floors, and for furniture and furnishings.. ... $2,000.00 10.000 00 5,200.00 7,500 00 8,000.00 6 400.00 1,250.00 3,000 00 1,000.00 For new food elevators and equipment...... For new roof for kitchen, new down spouts, repairs and cistern connections For painting For library, books, magazines and papers.. For printing press and outfit For cement floors in basement. 1,000.00 For removal of old greenhouse, enlargement of it, repairs to and re-erecting the same..... 3,000.00 600.00 For a deep well, pipe, pumps, power, machinery, and connections $12,000.00 For a storehouse and equipment, and taking heat, light, water, and sewer to the same........ For new water closets, fixtures, and connections, and wainscoting... 5,500.00 5,000.00 For fans and tempering coils, and connections to ventilate balance of wards in main building and Grove Hall...... For radiators for wards "A” and “I”. ..... 6,000.00 2,000.00 For a cold storage and ice plant building, machinery, and equipment, and connections For enlarging shop building, and for equipment.. For coal house, ash elevator, etc For an engine for dynamo... For land. For a repair and contingent fund... Total......... $15,000.00 6,000.00 6.000.00 2,500.00 30,000.00 10,000.00 $69,500.00 The item for enlargement of the shop and for equipment may be provided for by authorizing this Board, if in its judgment it is safe so to do, to use sufficient of the Support Fund balance for that purpose. HOSPITAL AT CHEROKEE. Amend the law increasing the per capita to $15.00 per month until 600 patients are in the institution, after which it should be reduced to $14.00 per capita per month. Make provision for payment from the state treasury of the state of the per capita in excess of $12.00 per month. For the erection of outbuildings, fences, purchase of tools, implements, vehicles, stock, fire apparatus, fire pump, printing outfit, hose, sewing machines, plant, motors, laundry equipment, kitchen equipment, furnishing and equipping amusement hall and stage, bake oven, finishing floors, and in all other respects providing for the finishing, furnishing, completion, and equipment of the hospital buildings, the necessary outbuildings, pavilions, farm, garden and ornamental grounds in addition to all appropriations heretofore made. $100,000.00 |