Show t io NU Of CITY ASSETS ER OF PUBLIC IMP OM ANCE IS NEGLECTED t Inquiry For Information That the Law Requires to Be of Public Value of Data While councilmen are engrossed en in discussions lS of the financial af at fairs a 8 matter of no little Importance that has been neglected g ted is the sched scheduling se scheduling I and apprising appraising app of the municipal assets a sets Strange as it may m appear Salt Lake ty neer ne er yet has ha s had it its Ita nu numerous numer mer H and varied resources of land and improvements whether used u ed fn fI public purposes or not and other vain valuable valuable able assets listed and valued The need for foi this data will Mill be kneely felt when the impending issue of bonds is attempted to be floated for the im improvement improvement provement ement of the water supply and dis dis and equally so 80 when the census officials call for such Information Information tion as every city government should have ha ve and generally is of record As a matter of fact tact the law requires the municipality to keep a record of every item it m of its assets Appreciating this fact the council committee on finance applied ul for and obtained l from the council last February authority and an direction dire tion to compile the desired data for the city auditors book entries Nothing however has been done to toward toward toward ward carrying out the plans Auditor Reiser gets jumped on almost every day b by some anxious inquirer for this special dal information for not having the data at hand but buthe buthe he be feels that he is not blamable The auditor is patiently waiting for coun action Just now while threats are rife of higher taxes and bond issues to main maintain maintain maintain t tain the city administration and to pay for improvements already contracted for not a few taxpayers are debating debat it would not be a good stroke I of business b iness policy if the city officials o selected some of the salable land assets as assets sets to ease up pp the burdens of the tax ridden people Without knowing what these resources are that could readily be converted into cash a h to the i Advantage it cannot be determined de determined what might be realised realized from froma a public land sale |