Vancouver’s overall income for 1895 was expected to be 434,654.65. The largest expense items were $107,607.85 for Interest and the Sinking Fund (previous debt) and $48,564 for the School Board. The smallest items were $5,000 for the Parks Commissioners and $3,600 for the Free Library Board. [Picture shows entrance door to the City Free Library and Reading Room, then located in the Y. M. C. A. building on Hastings Street].
This transcript was made in 2020 by Transcribimus volunteer Rachel Tsui
Illustration: City of Vancouver Archives
reference number AM54-S4-: SGN 136
[Entrance Door to the YMCA Reading Room]
original handwritten minutes:
City of Vancouver Archives
COV S 31 Volume 6 pages 548 – 557
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[Volume 6 Page] 548
Vancouver May 2nd 1895.
The council met on Thursday May 2nd 1895.
Present His Worship the Mayor and Aldermen
Shaw, Coupland, Queen, Gallagher, McCraney,
McPhaiden, Wm Brown, Thomas, Bethune, and
W. P. Brown.
The object of the meeting was to consider the
Estimates, and such other business as might
be brought up.
The Council went into Committee of the Whole
for the consideration of the Estimates.
They were considered clause by clause and,
finally adopted as follows:
Estimated Expenditures 1895
Finance Committee
Salaries
Treasurer $1500.00
Accountant 1200.00
City Clerk 1200.00
Auditor 720.00
Solicitor 2000.00
Poll Tax Collector 745.00
Treas. Assistant 755.00
Typewriter etc. 720.00
Temporary 4 mos @$60.00 240.00
Mayor’s Grant 1200.00
Aldermen’s Grant 3000.00
City Hall Fuel 460.00
City Hall Lights 250.00
Stationary Printing & Advertising 3000.00
Telephone 48.00
Interest: Exchange etc. 4000.00
[Volume 6 Page] 549
Insurance $650.00
Election Expenses 600.00
Legal Expenses 3000.00
Assessment Board 1000.00
Contingencies 3000.00
Frontage Tax 9988.25
Children’s Home 500.00
Total $39 776.25
Water & Light Committee.
Salaries
Clerk $950
Assistant Clerk 600
Stationery 380
Telephones 150
Maintenance General 4000
Maintenance Sub main 500
Maintenance N side 3500
Maintenance Shop 200
Tools 250
Contingencies 1400
Extensions 4000
New main 10000
Street lights 18250
Total $44,180
[Volume 6 Page] 550
Free Library Board
Electric Lighting $280
Printing & Binding 175
Rent 500
Salaries 1200
Magazines, papers etc. 300
Fuel 75
Insurance, Maps, Catalogues etc. 70
New Books 1000
[total] $3600
Board of Works
Salaries
Engineer $2200
Clerk 900
Chairman 660
[*summation 3760+240=4000*]
Extra 240
Stationery 250
Street Cleaning 1500
2 Street Sprinklers etc 1000
Street Improvements 25350
Broken Rock Relief etc.
[above two items grouped with right curly bracket]
Sewer Repairs 1000
Sewer Extensions 1000
Bridge Repairs 1000
Surface drains 1000
House Numbers 100
Street Scrapers 180
Contingencies 2000
Street Repairs 7500
[total] $45880
Street Railway 9000
[total]$54880
[Volume 6 page] 551
Park Commissioners
Maintenance, Salary, Feed +c. $2500
Repairs to roads etc. $2500
$5000
Police Committee
Chief of Police $1200
Sergeant 960
10 Police @ $70.00 8400
1 “ @ 60. 600
Constable 120
Caretaker 300
Pound Keeper 600
Policemen 2 mos. 140
Magistrate 1800
Telephone 36
Uniforms 600
Board of Prisoners 1550
Transport 85
Clothing 85
Pound Expenses 50
Contingencies 250
Total $16776
[Volume 6 Page] 552
Fire Committee.
Salaries
Chief $1062.00
Captain No 1 702
Captain No 1 642
Captain No 1 702
Hoseman 702
Hoseman 522
Chemical Eng 702
Hoseman 522
Driver 702
Captain No 2 702
Lieutenant 642
Hoseman 642
Driver 642
Engineer 762
Driver 702
Stoker 642
Captain No 3 702
Lieut 642
Driver 702
Engineer 882
Driver 702
Stoker 642
Insurance 396
Fuel, Oil etc. Lights 1500
Repairs, Tools etc 1500
Telephones 144
Horses & Harness 500
Feed & shoeing 2000
Maintenance, Fire Alarm 250
Uniforms 1000
Contingencies 1000
Fire alarm Boxes 375 [??? not fully visible on scanned document]
[Volume 6 Page]553
Hose $1000
Plastering No 1 Hall 50
Waggon 75
Total $25054
Board of Health
Salaries
Matron $600
House keeper 265
Nurse 275
Nurse 120
Nurse 120
Nurse 240
Assistant Cook 180
Porter 420
Cook 240
Night Nurse 360
[*2820*]
Health Officer 530
Health Inspector 701.21
Cemetery Officer 720
Cemetery Assistant 60
Isolation Officer 420
Crematory 600
Milk & Food Inspector 600
Plumbing Inspector 795
[*4426.41*]
Contagious diseases 500
Inquests 250
Fuel Hospital 1000
Light Hospital 850
Telephone Hospital 36
Supplies Hospital 6000
Relief for destitute 750
Crematory Expenses 2000
Scavengering 1000
[Volume 6 Page] 554
Cemetery Expenses $150
Isolation Hospital 75.00
Hospital Lots 3360.00
Hospital Repairs 700.00
Contingencies 1500.00
Total $25417.21
Finance Committee
[Original is 3 columned list; headings over columns 2 and 3]
Interest S.Fund
By-Law No 12 $846 478
By-Law No 13 483 563.27
By-Law No 29 9000 1578
By-Law No 44 1200 210.40
By-Law No 64 9000 1578
By-Law No 70 750 91
By-Law No 80 6250 1315
By-Law No 91 1000 210.40
By-Law No 94 1500 315.60
By-Law No 100 6250 1315
By-Law No 126 & 127 23 593.60 6208.68
By-Law No 146 to 151 22 814.92 5998.30
[Totals columns 2 and 3] $82 687.52 19861.65
Frontage Tax
City Proportion By-L[aw]No 155 1876.71 1135.18
City Proportion By-Law No 199 1205.95 729.40
City Proportion By-law No 215 66.66 44.78
Total [columns 2 and 3]$85,836.84 $21,771.01
Grand Total $107,607.85
[Volume 6 Page] 555
Board of School Trustees
Salaries $36 554.50
Fuel, Water, Insurance, Supplies, Contingencies 5510
Repairs 3000
Clearing Ground at Fairview &
4 roomed building 3000
Desks 500
Total $48,564.50
1895 Estimated Receipts (Summary) [Summary is crossed out]
Debentures Funds Jan 1/95 $41,153.82
General Funds Jan 1/95 726.28 $41880.10
Licenses Liquor $21000
Licenses Sundry 5000
Poll Tax Collections 10000
Cemetery Collections 1200
Hospital Collections 1300
Police Court Fines 3000
Provincial Grant to schools 16000
Provincial Grant to Hospital 5000
Provincial Grant to Fire Dept 500
Brockton Point Ass (2 yrs) 1210.40
Rock Crusher 3278
Water Rates 48000
Miscellaneous 5000
Frontage Tax Arrears 2793.79
Frontage Tax 1895 9988.25
Refund on Granville St. Rails 3000
Additional Licenses 1500
Clearing in 185 2000
Arrears of Taxes ’87 to ’94 50000 $189770.44
[Volume 6 Page] 556
Estimated Receipts (summary)
Debenture Funds Jan 1/95 $41,153.82
General Funds Jan 1/95 726.28 $41,880.10
Receipts as per schedule 139,740.44
Arrears of Taxes ’87 to ’94 50,000 189,770.44
Assessment ’95 $16,188.194[? 3 decimal ?]]
@2%= $323,763.88
School Rate @3 Mills 48,564.50
Interest & Sinking Fund 665 [?] Mills 107,651.58
General Rate 1.035 Mills= $167,547.80
Less $70,000 for unpaid taxes and
50,759.69 for rebate 46,788.03 [?? not clear, could be 46,788.11] $203004.11
Total $434,654.65
Flush tanks etc. 10,522
Estimated Expenditure (summary)
Debenture Balances
January 1st 1895 $41,153.82
Warrants unpaid 22644.94 $63798.76
Finance Committee 39776.25
Water & Lights Committee 44180.00
Board of Works Committee 45,880.00
Police Committee 16776.00
Fire & Market Committee 25,054.00
Board of Health Committee 25,417.21 197,083.46
Park Commissioners 5,000
Library Board 3600
Street Rails Account 9000 17600
Board of School Trustees 48564
Interest & Sinking Fund 107,607.85 156171.85
[total] $434,654.65
Flush Tanks 1934
Fountains 96
Small Pox Hospital 60
[Volume 6 Page] 557
Fire Halls $126.00
Parks Bearpit etc. 60.00
Hydrants 7000
Street Sprinkling 1000
City Hall 36
Crematory 24
City Hospital 180
Pound 12
Market 24.00
[total] $10552.00
Moved by Alderman McCraney
Seconded by Alderman Thomas
That $50.00 be granted to the City
Board on condition that the money be paid
to Mrs. Trendell
Carried.
The board then adjourned
Henry Collins [signature]
Mayor
ThosF McGuigan [signature]
City Clerk
