| Show 2000 WORTH Of IS OUT Special Auditors of Books Tell How to Col Coi Collect 1 I lect Licenses NO STATISTICS ARE GIVEN NOTHING DIVULGED OF INTER INTEREST INTEREST INTEREST EST TO ANYBODY The special auditors who for the past year have been examining the books of the city made a partial report to the council last evening on the subject of license collections It is estimated that the report which covers coos about twenty pages of typewritten matter has cost the city cit 2000 being of the entire report which will cost in the neighborhood of or The system devised for tor more effi efficient effIcient efficient service in license collections could it is thought have been pro proposed proposed proposed posed In thirty days time by any bright accountant and the details per perfected perfected perfected by him but the city has paid the auditors to go through a u great mass of detail which Is 15 not even re reported reported reported ported on and which will probably nev never ne neer never er be of any material value The report says that the city auditor and not the city treasurer should as assess assess sess seas all licenses and that the treasurer should only act as collector Wrong to Combine Duties It Is also recommended that all ac accounts accounts accounts counts In this department be kept up upon upon upon on an accrued instead of a collection basis The auditor it Is explained is much better able to handle the matter of assessing license taxes than the treasurer and besides it is fundamentally fundamentally fundamentally tally wrong to combine the office of assessor and collector as at present The auditor it is 15 said can cah can exercise exorcise this function without the employment of more than one additional clerk and the report affirms that the new system system tem tern will save the city thousands of dollars The city recorder under the present scheme issues nil alt licenses after the fee has tas been deposited with the tho treas treasurer treasurer treasurer and the council has approved of the application The report says that this id h entirely unnecessary and that the auditor should issue the tho licenses when the fee is paid the treasurer thus UIUS simplifying the tho bookkeeping and doing away with a needless third person nerson in inthe inthe inthe the transaction the recorder Accounts to Be Uniform It is I recommended that the end of the license year be made to correspond with the end of the fiscal year Dec 31 o that all ail license accounts can be credited to the year to which they be belong belong belong long In order to carry out this system system tem tern several changes in the present ordinances are needed and the report suggests such modifications and asks ask the council to approve of them Blanks books and stationery to eon con conform on form oral orm to the new system must be printed The report Is noticeable ble for the time ab absence absence absence sence of any information as to how the license taxes have been Collected what has become of the funds so 80 se secured secured cured cur d the efficiency of the license col collector collector collector lector or anything of interest to the taxpayers who are raying paying for or the ma md making making king of the DorT The other worth of the report is due to come comite before the en cn eni I of the tile year |
