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ISSUED AS A SUPPLEMENT TO The City Bulletin OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS MUNICIPAL MANUAL City of Columbus, Ohio 1925 CONTENTS Page Government of city ..... 2 Department of public service ..... 3 Department of public safety ..... 4 Board of purchase __ 4 Civil service commission ._ 5 Public library ..... 5 Sinking fund trustees ....: 5 Department of health and sanitation 5 Foundation and development of Columbus v— 6 City geographical data 6 Financial and other statistics 7 and 8 Data relating to parks, streets and sewers, storage dams, building opera tions, post-office receipts, bank clearings, deaths and births 8 and 9 Location of engine houses 9 Municipal directory ._.« -— 10 PUBljKTUB£Ai*Vn £te= 166082 COLUMBUS, OHIO. UBRARV |*UW»-**^ -ifi6Q82-«: ITHE CITY MANUAL, COLUMBUS, OHIO, 1925 , W""^M5«iS )VERNMENT OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS Since January 1, 1916, the city of Columbus has been gov Bureau of Information and Publicity erned by its home-rule charter. Under this charter its of There has been established by council a bureau of informa ficials are selected—on a non-partisan, preferential ballot—for tion and publicity, under supervision and control of the city four-year terms. The executive authority is vested in a clerk. This bureau has charge of the editing, printing and mayor. Legislative affairs are handled by a council of seven distribution of all municipal records, reports and documents, members, elected at large. and collects and compiles information and statistics concern ing all departments and offices of the city. The chief function of the bureau is the publishing weekly EXECUTIVE of The City Bulletin, the official publication of the city. It carries the transactions and proceedings of council, the legal advertising of the city and such other information relating to the affairs of the city as may be determined by council. JAMES J. THOMAS, Mayor (Term Expires December 31, 1927) The City Bulletin shall be published, distributed or sold in such manner and on such terms as the council may deter The executive and administrative powers of the city are mine. No unofficial advertisements shall be published in the vested in the mayor, directors of departments and other offi City Bulletin, nor shall the City Bulletin be used to promote cers and boards provided by charter or ordinance. The salary the candidacy of any person, or be used as a medium for of the mayor is $6,000 per year. The mayor appoints the any personal controversy. director of public safety and the director of public service, together with any other officers whose positions may be cre ated by council and for whose appointment no provision is made by charter. ADMINISTRATIVE With the concurrence of council, the mayor appoints the sinking fund trustees, members of the civil service commis CITY ATTORNEY sion, and four members of the board of health. "It shall be the duty of the mayor to act as the chief conservator of the peace CHARLES A. LEACH within the city; to supervise the administration of the affairs (Term Expires December 31, 1925) of the city; to see that all ordinances of the city are en forced; to recommend to council for adoption such measures The city attorney is the legal adviser of an attorney and as he may deem necessary or expedient; to keep council counsel for the city and for all officers and departments in advised of the financial condition and the needs of the city; matters relating to official duties. He prosecutes or defends to prepare and submit to council such reports as may be re for and in behalf of the city all complaints, suits, matters and quired by that body and to exercise such powers and per controversies to which the city is a party. form such duties as are conferred or required by the charter The city attorney shall be the prosecuting attorney of or by the laws of the state," are the duties defined in Sec. 62 municipal court. He may detail such of his assistants as he of the city's charter. may deem proper to assist in such work. He shall prosecute all cases brought before such court and perform the same duties, so far as they are applicable thereto, as are required LEGISLATIVE of the prosecuting attorney of the county. He is elected for a term of four years. Members of Council CITY AUDITOR OLGA A. JONES (Term expires December 31, 1927) WILLIAM B. HESTON (Term expires December 31, 1927) WALTER E. OTTO JOHN M. LEWIS (Term expires December 31, 1927) (Term Expires December 31, 1925) FRED W. POSTLE (Term.expires December 31, 1927) SCOTT WEHE (Term expires December 31, 1925) The auditor is the city's chief accounting officer and book HENRY W. WORLEY (Term expires December 31, 1925) keeper. He is required to keep in accurate, systematized detail a record of the receipts, disbursements, assets and FRED P. ZIMPFER (Term expires December 31, 1925) liabilities of the city. He prescribes the method of keeping Legislative power of the city, except as reserved to the accounts by all departments; he requires that daily reports people, is vested in a council of seven members, elected at be made to him by each department, showing the receipts of large. Members of council must be residents of the city; all money and its disposition. At the close of each fiscal they shall hold no other public office or employment. Each year, or oftener if required by council, the auditor shall ex member of council receives a salary of $1000 a year. Absence amine and audit accounts of all officers and departments and from eight consecutive regular meetings shall operate to report such findings to council. vacate the seat of a member unless the absence is excused by The auditor is elected by popular vote for a term of four resolution of council. years. At the first meeting in January, following a regular munici-, pal election, the council elects one of its members president. The president presides at meetings of council and in the CITY TREASURER absence from the city, resignation, death or removal from office of the mayor, becomes chief executive of the city. ELMER E. JENKINS The treasurer is the custodian of all money belonging to the city. He receives from the county treasurer, when due the CITY CLERK city, taxes levied and assessments made and certified to the county auditor by authority of council. The treasurer dis-, burses the funds in his custody only on warrant of the auditor. HARRY H. TURNER Council provides by ordinance for the deposit of all public money coming into the hands of the treasurer in such banks, j The council appoints a clerk, who is known as the city clerk; building, loan or savings associations or companies situated! also such other employes of council as may be neces in the county as offer at competitive bidding the highest sary. The city clerk is custodian of the records and rate of interest and give good and sufficient security. shall perform such other duties as may be required by the The treasurer is appointed by council and serves at its charter. The city clerk serves during the pleasure of council. pleasure. THE CITY MANUAL, COLUMBUS, OHIO, 1925 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE the amount of $1,112,498.68. During the same period, op erating expenditures have been $980,583.98, an average net profit of more than $11,500 per year. W. H. DUFFY, Director The director of public service has charge of the construc tion, improvement, repair and maintenance of sidewalks, streets, alleys, bridges, viaducts, sewers, sewage disposal plants, all public utilities and public buildings. The position DIVISION OF LIGHTING of deputy director is provided by council enactment, the en cumbent fulfilling all the duties of the director in the latter's absence. C. F. TURNER, Superintendent The municipal light plant illuminates over 292 miles of city streets by pole and mast-arm lights and 15 miles by cluster DIVISION OF ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION standards, including all bridge lights, at net cost to the city of less than half the price paid a private corporation before R. H. SIMPSON, Chief Engineer the plant was established. The cash revenues from sale of The engineering work of the city is in charge of this di surplus current for residence and commercial lighting and industrial power for year 1924 were over 85 per cent of the vision of the service department. The construction and re total appropriations made by the city for the maintenance pair of bridges, viaducts, streets, sewers and sidewalks con and operation of the plant for that year. stitute the bulk of the work. DIVISION OF WATER AND SEWAGE DIVISION OF MARKETS CLARENCE B. HOOVER, Superintendent J. H. HART, Superintendent Controlled by the division of water are the water purifica Annual profits from the city's wholesale market and four tion works and the sewage disposal plant. The city invest retail markets average more than $15,000. It is estimated ment for these municipal enterprises, including the two that more than 150,000 people visit the markets weekly and storage dams and reservoirs, represents more than $9,880,000. that close to $14,000,000 worth of products are sold annually. For the purpose of paying the expense of conducting, man The estimated valuation of market property is fixed at aging and operating the city waterworks, the division collects $250,000. from all consumers, public and private, on a rate basis estab lished bv council. DIVISIONS OF PARKS AND FORESTRY DIVISION OF STREET CLEANING AND REFUSE COLLECTION JAMES UNDERWOOD, Superintendent NATHAN A.