Show TAX BUDGET S DISCUS taxpayers committee commissioners and the board of education I 1 meet in joint session A joint meeting me eting of 0 the box elder county taxpayers association ake board ot of county commissioners and the abe board of 0 education including the superintendent rind and the clerk was held at 10 yesterday morning at the commissioners commissi oMers office in the county court house in this city chairman L S pond ot of the board ot of commissioners opened the meeting by stating that he had called together the members ot of the taxpayers association and the members of 0 the school board to meet with the commissioners in order that they may cooperate la in considering si the budgets in the several county taxing units and it if possible to maintain efficiency in all of 0 the administrations yet still retrain refrain from an increase in taxes in response to mr air ponds pond s remarks james E halverson chairman ol of the taxpayers association stated that the association members were present to meet with the commissioners and the board of education and that the meeting had grown out ot of previous contact ot of the tax committee and the commissioners regarding the construction of 0 a new county jail in dox box elder county the members ot of the tax committee with the commissioners and sheriff john H zundel had bad visited the county jail and they reported conditions there a a shame and a disgrace to the county both from a sanitary standpoint and aad from the requirements otherwise ot of the state law lair which prohibits the locking ot of more thin than onn person in one cell the overcrowded condition ot of the local jall made this impossible by the sheriff it w wae a a pointed out that hoys boys ot of immature years charged with petty offenses wr were imprisoned with hardened criminals who la in miny many instances were fore suffering with loathsome diseases instances Ins tAncos were cited where re contact byruch boys marked a wreck in their lives thereafter it was the unanimous opinion of all present that a new jail should be erected and the conditions complained of 0 abated the problem with the tax committee and with the commissioners was how to do this without increasing the tax burdens of 0 the people mr air halverson suggested in behalf of the tax committee that less urgent matters be dropped from the county budget and that the board of 0 education cooperate by making a rea reduction in its budget so that the request tor for taxes from the county board of education may be somewhat reduced to enable the commissioners to meet the expense ot of a new county jail without the increase ot of taxes the matter was discussed further by chairman john J shumway of 0 the school board E W dunn C G adney mayor james knudson P N pierce john P IIo holmgren lingren leroy D white C H skidmore and E P horsley the meeting was adjourned with mutual assurance from both the commissioners ners and the tha board of education that the budgets would be scrutinized carefully with the view of cooperation so as to meet the jail emer emergency ency without an increase of taxes |