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Show City's 1926 Budget Ready for Approval The tentative budget for the city of Gunnison for the year 1926, has been prepared and is now available for public inspection, and complying with the act of the state legislature passed at the regular session, a mass meeting of the citizens and taxpayers taxpay-ers will be held at the City Hall, Tuesday Tues-day evening of next week. The time set for holding the meeting has been set at from between 7:30 and 8:30. According to 'the act passed by the legislature and which effects Gunnison Gunni-son as a city of the third class, the mayor and city liiecordjea- shall prepare pre-pare a budget for the coming year and shall have published an appropriation ordinance to govern the expenses of the city for the ensuing year. And, too, it will be unlawful for any city to make appropriations in excess of the expendable revenue for the coming com-ing year. The law, primarily, is for the purpose of reducing taxes and holding the city finances within the j bounds of the funds that are reasonably reason-ably supposed to care for the several departments. In as much as this is the first' ex- J perience for Gunnison, and for other cities in the state, the novelty of the citizens aiding in approving the budget bud-get for the city, will prove unusual and it is expected that the attendance at the meeting scheduled for next Tuesday evening will be a goodly 'representation 'rep-resentation of the citizens of Gunnison. Gunni-son. The city officials are desirous of having all interested taxpayers present and assist in approving or disapproving the budget, as the occasion occa-sion demands. I |