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Show CITY TAXES MAY GO UP Milford City taxes will b2 increased by 4 mills for the current year, if their proposed budget is adopted. Present tax levy is 23.5 mills. Action to increase the. mill levy was taken at the regular cty council meeting Monday evening, after considerable and at times rather heated discussion. discus-sion. Councilmen Young and Jimenez opposed the increase, on the grounds no definite plan for expenditure of the money had been presented, and Councilmen Symond, Hanney and Edwards urged the increase in-crease as needed for the sewer system and airport improvement. improve-ment. At present there is no levy for airport or sewer. The new mill levy would provide approximately $3,000 for the airport and approximately approxi-mately $1,000 for sewer construction con-struction and maintenance. Earlier, Dr. Symond estimated estimat-ed that about $20,000 would be needed to construct four T-hangars T-hangars and an office building at the airport. Recorder Nadine Jones advised ad-vised the council that the ESA Sorority had purchased a diving div-ing board for the swimming pool, to replace the present cracked and possibly unsafe diving board, and sufficient fibreglass to construct a windbreak wind-break around the pool. The City Dads transferred $3500 from the water utility fund to the general fund. Effective July 1, start of the next fiscal year, salaries of city employes will be increased, increas-ed, J. C. Rummler, Clinton Bond, Jack Bardsley and Nadine Na-dine Jones each receiving a $50 a month increase; Alvin Skil-licorn Skil-licorn a $60 a month increase, ' and City Attorney Sam Cline a $25 a month increase. |