Show mm I PARTY i BANKRUPTS ITS CITY 1 I Reckless feckless Expenditures Expenditures Make MakeI I Vain Any Hope Ho e of Escaping r i Overwhelming Debt BURDEN ON PROPERTY IMN IN CONTROL INDIFFERENT T WELFARE t The Predicament 0 CI ys portion 1 Work under way Work contracted for Sidewalk and ad paving ng re repairs repaIrs pairs II Engineering work I O Total j I Amount in street fund March iLari il 31 r Amount Am noun un in sewer fund k March Marcha 31 t It j I Total C Warrants Warrant paid In April approximate a I I I Total Total at present r 1 Amount city Is In debt 1 1 No Xa hope for any an large amount to come from collections and md all of or 1 p portion of or work contracted j I for or under must be way wa paid out i of or this fund Work contemplated i but not contracted for not taken I Into consideration 0 0 r The American party administration tion IO ni Ii fo 10 O hopelessly swallowed in the pea FeR ea of debt d bt that It cannot come within 3 of paying for its share of the Improvements already contracted for tor forThe forThe The fund is depleted and no re recourse reu course roure u can an be had to the bond Issue of several ral years ago to help pull pun the city out of or its hole but notwithstanding standing this fact tact the board of or public works and the council are going right and letting contracts for hun hundreds I of or thousands of dollars without any thought as aft a to the future In fact tact an official of the th board of public works said that he lie did not know knowl l I Jiow oW much money the city would have for its share of tho the Improve Improvements I ments IT and councilmen seem equally In Indifferent indifferent indifferent different Notwithstanding this the I figures are easily obtainable upon ap application to the tho thoe e city treasurer tre surer An ap approximate proximate I estimate is given above i Estimates by Kelsey According to an ap a estimate submitted to fo the city council counell two weeks ago by ILC L C Kelsey city engineer the unpaid portion of ot wor work done prior to March 15 to There is owing to contractors for work yet et un uncompleted completed and contracted for before March darch 15 IS the sum of Then there Is the item of work contemplated March tarch 15 IS of or which the portion would amount to Of or this last eum aum urn the Moran Moron paving contracts for West Vest Temple and Brigham streets only been let and according to the city engineer the portion of these will willbe be something like Then there must be considered the crosswalk and paving g repair contracts for which 25 23 must be bo appropriated out of the treasury and an additional for engineering work Subtracting from the portion of ot tho the work under contract March 15 because of the release of the Utah Fireproofing company com from its f contract and not taking into j consideration tiny any an of the work contemplated I plated except the Moran oron paving con contract contract contract tract which has hrs already been let it ap appears appears pears peats that there is a total indebtedness of or against the city street and lewer eon ewer or funds which must be paid before the he end of the year ear 4 Not More Than i To pay pa this there will ill not nol no be more than Khan in hi the street fund At the close cl so of business March 31 1907 there was in the street fund and in inthe Inthe inthe the sewer seer fund a total of Since that time about has been paid out of these funds to contractors on city warrants and there j only about 9 This with the few collections that will come in from time to time during the year and will not amount to more than I will have to pay pa for the portion of the improvements contract contracted ed for fr t r or under way wa wayt t The question Is how Is it going to be fidone t NObody seems to know Contractors have ava not taken any an notice of the tile de do deplorable dep p condition of or the treasury treasur and have grabbed up contracts as fast as the board of public works and the council have been able to let them They The all feel lee I satisfied that even e en if it the has no money now it will have 1 money some time and will be able to toa pay a I The American party part manipulators figure that they the can postpone p I payments until after election and If It they are defeated the debt will have hae to tolie tobe tobe be lie assumed by the next administration Ion tion It If they the are victorious they will tru t to tn luck to pay the debt debLIn In view of these thes facts which have bave never r before been definitely stated the r audacity of ot the administration in plan planning ning work that will wUl cost the city 3 7 may be appreciated If contracts should be let for this work the city would be 00 so badly in debt that it might have to be taken tak nover over by b a receiver Other 9 h r Work Contemplated In addition to this it was recently de decided decided decided to pave First South street from Second S C Ind East to Thirteenth ast streets On this work the city pays for the street intersections and half haIr the grad grading grading ing and the total will amount to con considerably consIderably considerably more than OO This is ismore Ismore ismore more than half C the amount now in Inthe the street fund to pay for such work Not Notwithstanding Notwithstanding Notwithstanding withstanding this fact tact however th city recorder has h been be n authorized authorize to publish notice of or intention to make the Improvement The ame same condition is true as to the tho contemplated paying paving of ot State street between Seventh South and Tenth South streets This would cost the city about yet et the notice n of intention has also T been een published Every time a group of ot property own owners ers era asks for a t sidewalk or paving ex extension extensIon extension tension the council grants it and notice of ot intention Is published No regard at atall ataU atall all aU is paid to the amount of pC money the city has to for these Improvements Nobody seems to carp care Politics Plays Its Part The object of or his tiis action on the part of or the American party Is apparent It realizes that it is in the hole financial financially ly Iy so BO far now that a few thousand dol doi one way wa or r the other will vill make only I a little difference dIffer nce Property owners feel I aggrieved 17 wien cn their Improvement pe petitions petitions I are denied and aggrieved prop property property property erty owners mean so many less votes So the council goes go s ahead and orders any and every old thing it itis is asked for forwith forwith forwith with absolutely ab no thought of the fu future ture Another phase of or this contract tangle which seems about to bankrupt the city Is the heavy rate of ot taxation which the citizens are now burdened with In ad addition addItIon addition to this rate the special assess assessments assessments ments m levied against ag improved property must be taken into consideration By Bythe Bythe Bythe the city engineers en estimates furnished to the council two weeks ago the total amount assessed against abutting prop property property property erty in contracts either under way wa contracted for or contemplated reaches the sum of or which h is equal to a 3 per cent assessment on all the proper property ty in the tho city taking the assessed assess d valuation valuation to be But it must be considered that only about Of r the property rt must pay this tax tar and from this it may readily be seen that the burden on a n portion of the property owners is great Contractor Released Besides B s all this the city has released the Utah Fireproofing company from doing feet of sidewalk This contract was let at nt a low lov figure am and with that as ns s a basis the city engineer engIn er estimates that the portion of ot the thie uncompleted part of ot the work would amount to about When a new contract contra is let for this work the portion will probably be be because because because cause cause of ot the increase in the price of materials and the cost of labor r Taking everything into consideration the city is up against it and up against It hard In this synopsis current ex expenses and otner other little mUe matters matt rs such as building an addition to the crematory at a cost of have not been taken considered |