Show REFORMERS REFORMER'S MEANS NO SIDEWALKS FOR SCHOOLS r t Because City Recorder Moreton Was Fired by Board of Education Education Education Edu Edu- cation He Induces Council to Take Action Wholly Unwarranted by Law NECESSARY TO CUT GUT DOWN EXPENSES SOMEWHERE Kearns Administration Hopes Hope to Make Record for Economy by If Forcing Payment for Street t Improvements Out m of the School Fund School Fund r cause Because Cily Recorder Moreton haa har ha has hasa I r a grudge O against the thc board o of or educe ilea the tho city will not pa pay fur for any mons mot mon s t l or sidewalk alk improvement around tho the city schools The Thc council on Monday Daddy nl night hl a resolution remitting the assessment made against school property properly for Cor sidewalk side wall walk Improvement and tho the board o ol or public works tt was ns Instructed not tc to include school chool property properly in III the tho adt advertisement adver cr cement for Cor bids for Cor sidewalk cont con con- t Back of oC this is a story stor which abounds abound in 1 political chicanery Y and personal spite which may Involve e the city ells I In n serious legal leg com complications S' S CIl Recorder Moreton was formerly formal 1 clerk of oC the school hoard but for co cause use was ousted two t 0 years cats ago o IJ by 11 bythe the board of or education The reason for fOl the choose change never nevel become became public property but hut tho iho board bom d felt it ft sufficient suf sut- to appoint a new nets clerk and Mr 11 was vas out after years cars of or service eJ Let BOll Ilont Ill I'll d PH Pay Iny Fm Improvements nt l f Now mv the city proposes to let lot the hoard board of education pay for un any street streetor or nr sidewalk Improvement lIt that mayr may maybo mayhe r bo he needed at the various schools In III tho iho past the city has remitted allI all I a assessments because school I properly torts is Js exempt ft orn taxation but hut the improvements im hn have been made Just the thc stone lIne and It Is said lId by attorneys that the spirit It of the tho law late is that while the schools shall bo he exempt the thc city shall nevertheless make the thu improvements improver improve improve- r r ments moots and pay the tho cost Tho money comes out o of or the street fund In addition to the personal gt grudge rull e which Mr 11 holds against the thc school board hoard because lie Ile lost t his Job thI e is another reason ren on for tho the city cil declining to pa pay the cost of or improvement improve improve- improvement ment to the II streets and ant sidewalks ad- ad ClIl to ro school sCho of property h h ctt II b n olla o. I r h L 1 I c nd 1 lost rt to l. mater nt m-nt t n C a y n ry Y f for Q u Urn t tIlY all oily IlY to l C cut cui a t down r t x b whet t tn Ih lit t o order to te n a Knowing to the t taxpayer III l the thc J cil oily city l n the thc appointed self o of ut reform can cnn show the taxpayer that thal o expenses In street and sidewalk Improvement have been n cut col down It will wUl be hp a feather fi In the bonnet honnet of Mayor Inor Thompson and his henchmen u of the American party part In ot order to accomplish a portion pOllion n of this the thc city council took a hand In lh the i affair Monday nl night hl and honored the i report of or the committee on finance by hy refusing to pa pay for Cor or an any further Improvements Im im- m- m 4 on an streets or sidewalks sut surrounding rounding school chool property properly ly Dir Mr DIa clon denies that he had aNana a hand Nana In ht the action but hut it Is known that he did notwithstanding his stale stale- f mont ment u aon'S Brilliant ilea Idea l' l Tho rho school board hoard h has 1 money to lo burn urn salt said the city recorder and It should pay pa- for Its own Improvements The rat city should not be he asked to pay tho the cost of or building sidewalks and improving improving improving im im- proving proving- streets roots tit on school property no more than the school board bo hC asked to pay for laying a n sidewalk around tho city It and ond County building The board of r has ha III no fund from Which It II t can take tak mom nunu y to t pa ire for fur the sidewalk Improvements There Is s a great rent deal Baal of oC the late work being lone done at present resent At the tho High school building the contractors have gt graded the sidewalk alk to make n wa way ay for fur the laying of oC cement but It Il Is s not nut likely that the work worl will go o a on since shire the cH city has refused and the board o of or education edu edu- cation has no fund fuel from which it can canle le legally n draw In the past paM when the school board received notice of assessment for Cor Improvements improvements Im im- on sidewalks and streets ls the notices were t ct a returned with the explanation that the school property Is exempt i from taxation of all L kinds II The law late on the subject found in section section section sec sec- tion 1 u of or the revised ed statutes Is Isas isas as follows What the I aw 1913 School properly r. from tn lu taxation tool and 1 c All property prop prop- property erty rl real or personal held h by the board huard d of or education shall be exempt from general and special taxation and from Crom all aJl local assessments for an any purpose and shall not be I. I c taken talen In n any manner for foi debt t. t There hero is no law Jaw which authorizes the he board of education to pa pay for Cor sidewalk and street Improvement There Is s no fund from which life th monc money noney can be he legally taken In Lt the tho past all sidewalk all Improvements Improve Improve- e- e ments have been heen paid for fOl by hy the city Illy as is that was the understanding o of oC tho iho law late aw All of the schools o of or the cH city have 11 vc certain sidewalk and street Im Improvements hn- hn prot outside the grounds All the thc work wort was tt as paid for COI by the city out of oC the tho re regular ulal fund Tho board o of or education has no record to show that thal thata thala a cent was waH ever p paid by that body for foi sidewalk alk or 01 street improvement around the tho schools The rhe city has paid Maid for fm all of or n It H. il and ancl will pay pu for fur It in the thc future If iC the hoard board has the proper Idea of or the state stag law lacy on the thc sub sub- n 1 Jat U u a- a fort mill Rod canto 01 MI I i lt w 1 n 1 nd r t L orr out bonds when tho i become coine due and a twirl fur for oi school filteR alter and the erection of oC school build In ings 8 These funds are arC a created by levy y and there Is not an Horn Ilan that lu provides for COl or the thc payment u of sidewalk improvement The Tho stale slate levies a deer deer- certain certain I tain per cent for the payment of or and the county also makes a le levy but hut none o of or tho rho money Is available avail avail- able for rOI the expense which the council councH says the board shall stand Precedent Is Unfounded The Thc American reform rm administration adminis now note In control of Salt Lake Lahe i City has established a precedent unfounded unfounded un un- founded l in law To ro satisfy personal spite and to lo deceive the iho public ul as to the tho true condition of oC the financial status of tho the city are arc the only real treasons reasons that can be ho given by hy the administration lion tion for or the remarkable le action of oC Monday Mon Dion- day clay night Hereafter when an nn Improvement Is contemplated l to the thc sidewalks of or a street tho iho city will pave the thc work worl to the thc line lino of the school property properly skip the tho space and h begin ln on nn the tho other At Al Ia least lead t. t that thit is what the action action ac ac- tion lion of n the council |