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Show LEHI CITY TAX LEVY 0 Q In this issuo ot tho Sun, you will Ilnd tho tax lovy for this yoar as 1 made by your City Council. Whllo It will not suit all of our tax payers It has rocolvod a groat deal of thought I and study, as to tho amounts that will bo roqulrod for tho sevoral funds" j that have to bo taken care ot at tho ! Bamo tlmo, not forgetting the tax burdons that tho pooplo have boon callod on to stand by oxcesslvjo tax- j atiou and realizing that it cannot bo : all changod In ono yoar, and tako caro j of our City's obligations, which must ( bo done to koop the crodlt ot our j City good. ( You will Hud by looking at your tax j notices that our taxes havo been f climbing higher overy yoar for the i past 25 years or moro, and tho last fow yoars our taxo have jumped al- I most boyond our ability to moot them, This thing must stop. I feel It has reachod tho oxtromo ' limit, that tho pooplo aro able to ' stand. It has bocomo a sore burden , on our cltlzons, making Lohi a place ' to got out of, ruther than a good place to llvo in, nnd thoro must ho a change i of policy and a starting downward in i our City's taxes, it only small at i first, (It continued, and it can bo) in i a few years Lohl will bo a bettor g place to llvo In and not a placo to jj barely exist. g Wo should encourage homo building jj and tho beautifying ot our homes by tj cutting out tbo fear, If we nail an t sxtra picket on our fenco, plant a awn around our homo, or a fow lowers, thoron, that our taxes will bo altod unthlnkably, as has been in iho pnst. Wo should try and mako (Continued on pago 3) "O 24th. -i 0 ' LEHI CITY TAX LEVY (CnMnuod from pago 1) mir town In every way possible attractive at-tractive nnd "enticing that our young peoplo, when they grow up nnd want a homo of tholr'own will mako Lohf that place. And so our older citizens, when they wish to rebuild, will not go to other towns as Is being dono In many cases. Individually I am opposod to tho taxing of homes as a sourco of ro venuo to City or Stnto. Small homes should be mado exempt as they are not a thing that produces a rovontto, but only a moans to that end. Dut at present undor our stato law this method of taxing cannot bo changed, It is to bo hoped that tho timo is not lar distance when small homes will not bo taxed, but wo will got our revenuos from rovenuo producing pro-ducing sources. HowovOr, until such time does como tho family homeo will tiavo to stand its portlonof tho taxes. With tho abovo as our object wo mvo lowerod Lehl's tax lovy this nnr 2 tnllla ninlitn, n tntnt r oo mills this year, as against 21 mills last yoar, which will amount to three to four thousand dollars less in ICty taxes to bo paid by Lehl cltlzons. While this Is only a small docreaso wo trust you will not forgot, it Is at least a starting downward In our City taxos and for your Information, in our tnx lovy as mado, wo oxpoct to do-rlvo do-rlvo enough money to tnko care ot oach department if spont carefully. It will ibo romomborcd that tho auditors report last spring disclosed thnt all of last year's taxos woro spent, Eomo flC.000 In past duo bills outstanding thus necessitating tho borrowing of money from tho start to run tho city affairs on. This has all beon taken caro ot and our sinking funds provided for in our prcsont tax lovy. Wo have not spont tho money on Btreots and other numerous calls that has bocn mado on us every month, although wo would havo liked to have dono bo. Our determination has beon to keep our City from further debt and pay prosent d'obts na fast as posslblo, thoreby, gradually getting rid of tho largo amount of Intorost wo nro call-od call-od on to pay each year on our outstanding out-standing bonds and notes. This Is one thing - that will mako .possible low or taxos oach yoar and Lehl a bottor place to live. JOSEPH S. DHOADDENT, Mayor. |