Show loll r TAX LEVY If DECIDED ON CityCouncil Passes Ordinance t for 812 Mills s L I LONG DEBATE ON THE MATTER Some of the Members Contended for 7 12 Mills but the Majority Concluded Con-cluded That Hate Must Bs Either 8 12 Mills or Preposition of Street Paving asd Repairs Would I Have to Bo Abandoned An SMill Hate Was Proposed but It Was f JI ft I Defeated 1I 1 r I I The City Council last evening after along a-long debate adopted the rcc rnm nda tlon tot the Finance committee fixing1 the Jax levyafrs1 W mI1s ftf01 tlie cur rcrt year Thc commlttee report was sifrnod by Robertson TInrtenateIn and Pernstrom the other two members V hlltemoro and Buckle not joining In the recommendation The report I and the ordinance accompanying it I provided that the lyy jbe jJVf mills on I the dollar as follows For contingent expenses 1 mills for maintaining im proving and repairing streets and sidewalks I side-walks 4 mills for the library t mill for Irrlgutlon and Waterworks 1 milBuckle I Buckle moved an amendment that j the levy I be 71 mills and that the item for Improving and repairing streets and sidewalks be 2V1 instead of 3 > i mills Whittrmore seconded the amend tnt Durkle In speaking for the amendment amend-ment blamed the administration for departing as he said from the policy of rigId economy which It had outlined wlwn it came into office and declared that If It had adhered to Its original policy there would have been no proposition I propo-sition before the Council to increase I the levy above 7Jh mills the rate adopted Jast year I Instead of the city paying cash for I the pivlng of the street Intersections on Ffrond and Third South streets he I proposed that the municipality go in debt for at least l a portion of It1 and let I the succeeding administration provide I for the balance FAVORED Sf LULLS Robertson In support of the committee commit-tee report pointed out that the city had roachod the limit of Its legal In debtedness and could not incur any indebtedness for paving The issue he said was squarely l whether the city I could do the new paving and the repairs re-pairs or not If those improvements were to be made SVj mills was the lowest possible levy that could be made Seven and a half mills meant abandoning street Improvements It vas his opinion however that the people peo-ple not only wanted the improvements made but were clamoring for them lie then presented an estimate from Auditor Reiser of the expenses of the r city necessary to be raised for taxation taxa-tion for the fiscal year ending Decem ber 31 1301 It showed as follows Expenditures For maintenance of streets and slilowiiiks s 50CCO C Special repairs to pavements 20000 I City proportion of paving Second and Third South streets 35000 JrrlRutlon nnd water supply 33000 Public library 30 For general purposes 131934 1 Total 27SSJl To raise that amount a levy of 81 mills on the equalized valuation 8Y 5370 1000 the Auditor said would be necessary Fernstrom lc1 he advocated the SJ mill rate not because he liked it but because It was necessity I was either raise the levy or abandon the street paving and repairs i a AMENDMENT LOST Buckles amendment was lost Canning Can-ning Davis Fernstrom Hartensteln liewlett Robertson and Tuddenham voting against i and Thomas and Buckle In favor of It Beatty 1 Cottrell C 1 Howe Edgar Howe and Reid absent Buckle then moved that the rate be fixed at 8 mills Hewlett thought they could pull through with that rate pul Canning didnt see how they could get along with less than SV mills especially es-pecially In view of the fact that there was an urgent necessity for the street stree Improvements j The amendment was lost Hewlett Hewlet Thomas Whittmore and Buckle vot ing for f and Canning Davis Fern Rtrom Hartcnstein Robertson and I Tuddenham against It The ordinance providing for the S ½ I mlll levy was then adopted Buckle alone voting no < SPRINKLED THE MIDWAY I The question of street sprinkling sprinklng caused a ripple In the Council I came f up on a resolution offered by Ilnrten I I steIn t providing that the Street Super visor be Instructed to cause S street between Third rfmd Fourth streets to Fonrtj be sprinkled twice every twentyfour r tentyCoU hours In the 1ILJ Mme Hartenstein Raid he had had numerous complaints that that part of the street was only sprinkled once In twentyfour hours and that In the night time Canning declared that the sprinkling spll dlng loreman had said the street In nues ton was sprinkled in the day time uobcrtRon inquired how It was tlfat the sprinklers could find time tlat Sprinkle rt Midway at the carnival I grounds mid couldnt sprinkle the streets properly Canning said the Midway was being cprlnkled by special arrangement WUs beInG that the carnival managers were pay lag the city K for the weeks sprlnlc ling I Robertson moved hat the Street Supervisor be Instructed to quit sprink ling the Midway and devote his entire energies to the streets The motion waR curried and so was Hurtcnstulns r lutol A petition romvJ BVCrltchlow ask petton fIOJJ Ierlchlow ing the Council to apprQprlnte 250 tovxaiu1 the expense of the annual en earn imnt ot the National Society of thomnny of the Philippines was re icrreTl to the Committee on Finance The Mayors veto of the resolution authorizing the Committee on Sanita tion to advertise for bids for the orec tjon of I crematory and pointing out that the fiduril of Public Works was I thC proper bollx 0 advertise for Wf5 bid I vet sustained nnd the Board of Pub He Works instructed to twjllclt bids Thf 1 offer or C E Pace presented by Land nudj Water Commissioner Woa tfrtield compromise for 150 a suit for 1200 for damages done to city lands et by 1 live stock owned by Pace grazing tbeioon was referred to the Committee on Financu IRRIGATION WATER LOWLand LOW-Land and Water Commissioner Wcs torfiAhi called attention to the fact that tho volume of Irrlgailim water ri intrlnpr the Jordan and Salt Lake I 1 t li < y cnnijl is only twothirds of the I amount a jonr ago and that the saute Is Approaching l dangerously low con Mtlon nnd suR p lnJlhnt the city n < KotIati viIIi ovncra of ditches for 6 that part of the water which the r OneI r > on lcno to the city for the I r remainder qf the aen on The matter I vas referred to the Committee on Irrl gaLlon thp > City nlon V EngIneer and the Land i and Water Commissioner Comril8Ioue t FernKtorm offered a resolution which I was adopted providing that a commit I p tee of five be appointed to Investigate and If possible to arrange a plan whereby the water in Parleys canyon can be brought to the city without giving the farmers an equal amount out of the irrigation canal and also to investigate I and if possible arrange in conjunction with the canal companies to secure the water now being used for power and milling purposes and to investigate and report on the fcnsl Ibility i of placing a power pumping plant at the head of the Jordan so as to secure Irrigation water in case of a dry season |