| Show THE MAYORS MESSAGE the city council met in regular session last night councilman hardy inobe in the chair the members present were vere lawson beardsley evans belt bell horn folland rich and damu dl lu lo A beant karrick kelly moran and holes S I ME IME ou on motion of councilman holland folland henry W lawrence was waa allowed to audreas the counci mr lawrence asked in behalf of property owners tha the sidewalks on biral and second krouth street between state and west temple streets be allowed to remain ainther ai a other uther year befort before new un bete laid the reason for the request hw be said eaid was waa the hard bard times limes and inability of property owners to meet coming obligations councilman rich moved that mr lawrencea petition be the tint first matter under tue the head of miecele laneous bus ineve carried A SEWER MATTER P L williams wililam 11 attorney for the board ot of education stout sent in the following I 1 have heretofore had some correspondence pon dence nee with the city relative to refund tasked by the board of education oh oft so ao colant of the advance or oT oft made for the of the lateral wow r on B E street I 1 am instructed by the board to urge that this matter be given attention without f farther arther delay and that the excess advanced above the actual expense of the said extension be ref refunded added to it as it is in urgent need of the money and besides the board feels that thai it Is its itil dwy y to have the matter adjusted and the excess returned I 1 with this duplicate of the original agreement agro ement executed by the board but bat which it beams has never in fact been signed by the city the money however having been paid I 1 take it it is in immaterial whether the contract has been actually signed or not referred to the committee on sewers and this the street supervisor directed to an estimate of the value of the iron turned over to the board by the city NOISY DANCING HOODLUMS david morse morae and thirty other citizens complained that noisy rowdy and boisterous dances were hold bold ulna most oat nightly at no south eleventh fast bast street the letitio ore era also represented that the hoo allums attend lug ing the ball parade the streets at late hours hooting booting aud and yelling and making night hideous we therefore respectfully spert fully ask that it be abatedaga abated abate dasa as a public nul cance or disturbance of toe the peace or at least be conducted within withie reasonable bounds ut of respect for the ibe auff eAng neighborhood committee on police FLAGSTONE IN PLACE OF CEMENT william illingworth et al apken permission to jay a sidewalk of fia stone it i i stead of cement board bt public works TO WORK OUT HIS TAXES benjamin quiver guiver asked to be allowed to 10 work out his bis taxes referred to the mayor with p power to act WORK OR OB MONEY hannah phillips Fhil lips and others protest ed against the extension exten of time in jay lug sewer mains on second 8 nth between fifth and ninth east streets and asked tuat that the be work be proceeded with or that assessment mo ey b t refunded committee on sewers and assessor FEARFUL OF THE consequences the assistant recorder at this juncture of the proceedings took a communication ni from his wallet from the mayor and proceeded to read the same when he was suddenly baited by rich asking the question what is it about abou tV the blatant assistant recorder on finances several members then simultaneously moved that it be tabled until miscellaneous business was reached ANOTHER OF THE SAME SORT mr dennis then proceeded to read another LWOW communication frum from his honor in rel relation atlon to the removal of Sanit sanitary bry inspector snowell showell and the appointment of S C ewing as his successor euc cessor when he was out short abort by that too being temporarily laid on the table GUTTERS VS VB CATCH BASINS the chairman of the board of public works and city engineer reporting in the matter of the recommendation that gutters be substituted fur for caesh basins in the paved districts stated that wo the gutters in their opinion would prove abe most saUs satisfactory factory but tb tati they would not recommend the substitution until after one winters winter Ps experience with the basins they also relt felt confident that po no serious results would follow the use of the bins basins it if flushed out onoe once or twice a week with irrigation water adopted DEPUTY SANITARY inspectors health commissioner beatty recommended the employment at once of our deputy sanitary inspectors Sic and Wanti and advocated the adoption of the abe report whereupon boil bell saiu gentlemen this thing must not it cannot go through the mayor can and will it remember that I 1 old did not think it would be necessary fur for me to talk this way in the council tor for at least thirty days to come you have got to the en i of your string and you ought to know ILI it horn said if anything was stopped it should he be the mayors salary watland Wat laud contended that the mayor would stop nothing in the abe sanitary dopart department part ment he would out in all of the other departments depart mente first bell again tools LOOK the floor and cam fenced to speak when opener a cross fire at him the Ja latter itter warmed up declared ironically he be presumed that he be was talking tu to sona sena ble bit men but intimated that so far as mr was concerned he might he a 1 but be uld old not intend to iglay play circus cincu 11 any more than was absolutely sol necessary committee on sanitary rules and quarantine regulations RAPID TRANSIT OAR CAR TAX city treasurer duke submitted a communication from the salt lake rapid tausia company in which they abe demurred to the payment of an annual tax of 30 each on twenty two wo cars their tbt lr claim being that they only operated fifteen cars care on an average filed AN ABUNDANCE OF LIBERAL MUD the street supervisor reported that there was an abundance of mud on south temple street first south and second south street etli between wet west and fifth west streets street and recommended its removal committee on OB streets REFUNDING recommended the committee on waterworks water works recommended in the matter ol 01 0 waterworks water works extension nu no on ninth east street that as only had bad been paid and 2040 remains unpaid that the treasurer be authorized to and instructed to refund to the proper parties the amount collected on said axtens on filed CITY CREEK CANYON WORK the committee on waterworks water works recommended om mended that and repair work be done in 10 city creek canyon to the amount of 1500 SIDEWALK resolution bell offered the following resolution which wan waa adopted whereas at a meeting of the city council held on september 26 1898 a resolution was adopted instructing t the e board of public works to imm immediately lately proceed with the work of lavin laying cement sidewalks on first and second south streets from west temple to state street and 9 whereas the weather will soon be such snob as to prevent the completion of said cement sidewalks therefore be it resolved that above mentioned resolution of date of september 29 1893 be and the same is in hereby rescinded ana and or of no effect and be it further resolved that a report of the board of public works under date of september 29 1893 regarding said walks be adopted and the matter referred to said board of public arks for immediate action as per their recommendations unpleasant FACTS FROM THE MAYOR the mayor madore le communication which was tabled earlier in the evitina ng was then the subject ot a vigorous vigo roua discus aion hantla d opposed it coming up and resorted to various kinds of tactics to proven prevent t it t teeing read and lawson de the mayor and 11 finance nance corn com cittee were responsible not ble lor for all the cluan financial ills ilis the city was now suffering from the mayor he said care tor for an any v thing or any body but his big a year and his alta recreations and pleasures foll Folli nii nil also blamed the nuance finance committee an I 1 his honor and evans ahmid d it was a burning shame that a communication from the chief magia ot of the city should be knocked about as it wa ws atio message was filially read and referred to a committee bom cittee consisting of 13 bardsley bell follano Fol lanu karrick and wa litland it I 1 lc as toll wt we SALT LAKE CITY oot oct 10 1893 to council the honorable president and city gentlemen in january last in my mv annual report I 1 made a statement showing the amount of the existing obliga gions of the city together with the amount of money it would reasonably require to run the various departments of ahe oita for the current year and complete certain essential improvements aca accordine to their estimated cost which were in contemplation temp lation and part of which had already been contracted for among which improvements prove ments were the gravity sewer rowe street paving joint fo nt city and county building city jail elc also showing that the estimated available assets of the city for the current year would be amold sufficient to meet all of these requirements and yet leave a balance of in the treasury with which to 10 meet bess elm pressing expenditures in connection with this I 1 said prom from the foregoing statement it is apparent that a point him has been reached in the financial affairs of the city at which an abridgment OF TUB THE should begin and the whole matter of expenditures be kept well in hand by the council 0 shortly afterwards mr bell introduced in your body a similar statement but much fullar in detail showing substantially the same state of facts a copy of which is hereunto appended appoLd ed marked exhibit A the available assets tor for the current year in both of these statements were estimated atone million and ninety eight thousand dollars this estimate as subsequent events have shown to is too high by one hundred thousand dollars owing to discount on bonds and the reduction ot of the tax list and reduces the estimated esti maed balance before mentioned in that amount notwithstanding this his showing the expenditures tures were not as recommended abridged but on the contrad contrary v were greatly augmented in consequence of which the city today has hos out outstanding warrants to the amount of biti with two and a halt months of the year bov covered by said yet on the gravity sewer the estimated ecat cost of which was three hundred hundred th thousand ou dollars there has ban been paid out only eighty six thousand and two hundred dollars on the joint city and county building the estimated amount of the cites share of the cost of completing which was one hundred and five thousand dollars there has been paid only on the city jail which was estimated to coat twenty five thousand thone and 25 dollars nothing has been paid and of the eighty five thousand dollars interest included in said statement only fifty thousand dollars has been been paid the following statement shows the anao amount of money which will have to be paid out by the city between now and the end of the year to meet incurred obligations and detray defray the indispensable running expenses of the city government balance on paving ip in round numbers on n gravity graid sewer on joint C city y and county building 15 interest on bonds street lighting on sidewalks paving blocks to bamberger sewer rebate to property owners on street sprinkling estimate for cross walks 1600 1500 curre current n i running expenses of city for i two w 0 and one half months outstanding warrants to date total the only aval available lable mean beann R with to meet w theae ese requirement i are a ali he e bonds 1 5 a sold id and 15 on which option has been given it paid for or elty taxes it if collected in n full fall 1 taxes due up to t january lot estimated sti mated revenue from licenses fines etc total which will leave a balance in the treasury of without doubt I 1 have omitted many items vvhs which ch in the he future will be dis closed n not 0 t included in the list of obliga F trolls in n addition to the more pressing dobli vi lations motions Mt ions of the city above set out the 10 V cent held back from the various con er per amount to forty thousand i trac t 18 now dow dollars 1 l of ibis this amount several thou thousands sands will wil I 1 nature next year and continue to mature thereafter from year to year un il 11 the T whole becomes due the tour four per cent limit prescribed by y the fhe fourth section of the act of congress L section 1 revised statutes of utah 95 been reached by the bonded madness of the city and outstanding war so that warrants and obligations be beyond yond that limit which may accrue by the ne esp express ress terms of said act are nuga and void therefore until that limit tory ory hall be reduced and within the limit only can 0 any y additional indebtedness be ae leaalla ally contracted by the city 1 I I 1 I 1 doom deem it sec necessary essary to call this matter to 1 your attention that you ma may in inobe the future shape your action biti with oe to the same respectfully submitted R N BASKIN mayor |
