Show bonty 0 M anca a wan cuto T R clarinda la in treasury balance increases from to in four years clarinda la in adarin da tins has just completed ri a four year experiment in city government four years yeara ago clarinda engaged a manager to run tho the town that manager lifts has just resigned to go to wis but clarinda la Is so proud of its ono one mun man government that it wants wanta to toll tell the world all about it 11 when clarinda began talking city management uvo five or six years ago there horo wits was vory very little information to bo be had on tho the subject tho the system was now new people thought it should work out all right but know what to expect from the plan but clarinda now knows paid cash for everything tho the city manager henry traxler took on april 1 1010 1019 on that day there was a balance in the city treasury of after four of ono ann management tho the cites balance Is tile the tax rato rate has ha not been raised it actually has been lowered many thousands of dollars worth of improvements prove ments have been made ond and clarinda has paid cash for everything clarinda got in those four years cents worth for every dollar it spent for material and labor it did not bother itself to find out if a republican could clean more square yards of pavement than a democrat or whether a was a better worker than a prohibitionist an em cm politics was lost sight of COW corn plo toly all ho he had to do was to work no matter how lie ho voted some of the results hero are some of alio improvements clarinda tins lifts mado made lit id the lait four years installed a now new wate purification system bought an armory and ana made it servo serve also for a city business building purchased a municipal tm etory laid many miles of now know paving costing in 1021 alone rebuilt tile tho firo alro station anti and added new apparatus kept up tile tho ordinary repairs to io nil all city property while other towns and cities were voting and issuing bonds right and loft and fastening a heavy debt on coming generations claranda Clarin paid its wily as it went and did not issue a single bond furthermore willie while taxes were mounting skywards elcy warda in other cities and towns clarinda actually cut its tax rate in 1010 tile tho tax lovy lavy wits was 42 wills tills this year it wits was 42 mills including a 2 mill hlll levy for the municipal band saved in face among the alie jobs of the city manager wo wa a that of handling the municipal waterworks water WO works clarinda Is proud of its water system it Is called the best in southwestern iowa and its ita rates tire are quite a bit lower than la in other cities of tile same class clasa on april 1 1010 1919 the water works balance was 27 now it Is moro more than in the meantime the plant tins has been built up to tho the minute and pays all overhead costs costa of operation and replacements tile tho armory cost coit tile tho city and additional was spent to modernize the building so that if it could be used for offices as aa well part of tile the building not used by the city lq IQ rented for a year which more than alinn pays all expenses the building also to la used by the band and thi auditorium Is reserved for public affairs without expense the cerne cemetery tery bought by the city manager for now has in ats maintenance fund willie while the city was spending for paving the city manager who also alsan Is an engineer took charge of tile the paving program and in one year saved tile town in engineering fees |