Show I 1 Counties No Longer Asked To Assist In State Roads aan n Friday TV stave sta 2 The toward tightening thu t. Ux tac its p. na 4 did tangible property in Utah on n burden the theSs from the counties when hen It took le state road Ss of levy le n any y necessity construction or betterment betterment better- better I for the taxes within state roads lying the a JK ment men of i boundaries th their re respective s p tax permitted under maximum The mills on the dollar dollan The TheSes 3 la law is the Ses actually actuallY made from year to year yearby trades le hJ counties have varied from i the I by by at t all at times In some counties counties counts coun coun- nothing regular gular 3 mills In oth oth- ties ts to a t fairly t hen u state road rom corn the present the When Into being the counIS counties counties coun- coun came mIsSion sion IS carried T the great share of the ties construction and maintenance main- main burden Se of rf within road t their respective t bound bound- of the thein remnant ae The state had a aries state tate road bonds which in 1917 and andS issued had S been counties did all the rest usIng usIng us- us The 1921 taxes of the property proceeds Ing T gasoline as sales ta tax tas fixing a 2 Crate c cJe The 1924 4 Je In 1923 and In was passed rate theas the Cement was made whereby agreement an as ogre the cost counties were relieved of half halt maintenance of the state road system of needed need need- all the funds to tem They supplied match federal aid ald ed d to Increased to 3 S c In The tax was 1925 and in 19 1926 the counties were maintenance main maln- relieved of ot per cent of the costs They were still required n ne federal aid funds and also alsoto match to o work to tn About cooperate a y year ear on betterment later the state began one half the sum re required required required re- re to contribute aid In some federal to me match of the poorer c counties unties where when state e connections were necessary Increased increase In 1931 th gasoline tax was several hundreds of but e ed to 4 cents miles of new roads were added to the state road system and the provision was made that proceeds of the extra half hall cent gasoline tax must be spent on the additional roads Considerably more than the amount has be been n so so spent according to th the sta states state's s 's records Last January the state relieved the thee counties of all construction costs on the federal aid system leaving them still with Ith the burden of cooperation for betterment and construction on state roads not on the federal aid system Effective January I 1 1 it was announced ed Friday the counties will no longer be requested to participate on any engineering construction betterment or maintenance on any road on the state road system If counties desire to speed up the work ork they may of course provide funds by state road rend taxes if they so desire Otherwise the work worle will proceed as state funds become be become become be- be come available and as the needs of the situation appear to demand from the state I viewpoint The announcement is of course i conditional on the state road revenues remaining approximately as they are One condition is that the motor se- se e e- hide Mcle and gasoline sale tax revenues remain entirely for their present uses Ci ti retiring miring state road roid bonds and construction con con- construction and maintenance of roads If the depression slows up this revenue construction work ork must necessarily likewise slow up The policy polley can only hold so long longas as M the demands for Improvements on the state road system do not exceed available revenues Tribune |