| Show RECORDER LECTURES cm COUNCIL they have reduced taxes forty per cent 1 EXPENSES NOT IH ordinance levying paving tax for block on twenty fourth street is passed bills allowed new member of fire department the city is running into debt was tho gist of a communication sent in by recorder anderson to the city council at the meeting last night and the council listened to the lecture patiently simply referring it to the committee without discussion the report is published in full below it remains to be seen what reply the finance committee will make to the recorders sarcastic arraignment it la a well known tact that anderson has been sore ever since hs salary was reduced from to per month and in making bis comparative statement of the overdraft over draft for each year be falls to make necessary explanations as recorders of other cities do for instance he did not say that the united states supreme court bad ordered ogden city to return the street paving conry or that street had been paved by present council this year or that the pre ceding council had left bills unpaid which this council had paid in tact the recorder made a statement that would show up as strongly as possible against the councils economic policy recorder anderson however failed to state that t hat each month since his salary was cut down he had presented a special bill for extra work claimed to have been performed by him which helped to increase the expenses of the city the council no doubt will take care of itself the city council was called to order by president browning at 8 all members present except jones and williams the committee on laws reported on the matter of the city recorders duties recommending the passage of an ordinance taken up in regular order of bus mass adopted in the matter 0 the collete tion of poll taxes recommending that the proposal of john lamport to serve all summons in justice court without pay be accepted adopted in the matter of creating paving district and tax levy tor same an ordinance was returned and placed in line of regular order in matter of the claim of thos D dee receiver of date feb 2 1898 of for water rentals due ogden city waterworks Water works co was ordered filed the following claims were allowed and ordered paid geo parker co 1900 imp co geo A lawe co 35 hyrum belnap 2352 B malan L altzman W J dallimore B F thomas jerrold R letcher 1000 U L P co ICO Z C M I 1 C W cross 2215 aci leg D bencan U L jones 2900 E 11 anderson 40 cannon book stora 1200 A T hestmark W W browning co wm chappie H berry 1000 J M harbertson 1850 boyle hardware co 50 browning bros co 25 robt B lewis T II 11 carr R M B tel co L L dark sons co bernard G knoth carver allcox albern alien 1050 ohp claims of election judges tor services cervices vices election day were allowed as were the rentals of polling places for the same occasion committee on streets that certain str eitts patterson avenue and thirty first be graveled when convenient veni ent adopted committee on taxes recommended that claim of T D ryan be not allowed adopted the city auditor reported bond interest due in the sum of and the was allowed and ordered paid chief riser bent to the nomination of A T waldram as regular in the lire department to fill the vacancy by the resignation of T C oan flefil confirmed the matter of escaig of taxation by allowing private property to tall into the hands of the city by nonpayment non payment of taxes aad thus make tho property nontaxable non taxable came up through city Teo order calling attention ito one case wherein the owner of the property would escape taxes by the payment of 32 taxes and interest aba matter of proper of the mattar waa referred to the committee on taxes with the city attorney added the claim of frdd Mel saner tor back salary as a police officer as per court judgment was allowed and ordered paid the claim of captain of the police force for waa also allowed the following communication was cub mUted by the city recorder utah nov 20 1899 to tho president and members of the city council I 1 am required to attest all the warrants drawn by city council I 1 seem it my duty to call attention to the financial condition of abo city at the present time in anler to do so intelligently I 1 refer to the following table showing the overdrafts on the on the first of each year since we entered statehood overdraft jan overdraft jan 1 1897 overdraft jan 1 1898 overdraft jan 1 1899 overdraft jan I 1 1900 estimated the savings of 1896 on outstanding warrants bavo been invaded already in 1899 by about and by the end of the year will have been used to the amount of about la addition to the losses of 1897 98 so that it Is estimated that on the first of next january the cites floating warrants will number or within about of what they numbered when we entered upon statehood in 1896 it Is estimated that the available receipts this year will amount to about less than the disbursements tor the same hylod tho auditor Is perfectly safe in issuing for the remainder of 1899 to the amount of and yet keep within the debt limit but if that amount Is drawn the city will bo left in the same financial condition that existed when wo entered upon statehood in 1896 1 I do not deny that the taxpayers have been saved from paying perhaps 40 per cent of their former city taxation owing to a severe reduction in the valuation of property by the county assessor and also in the reduction of one mill in the levy by the city council tor 1899 neither do I 1 deny that the expenses of the city have been materially teri ally reduced by this council but the tact remains that the seeming saving has been made up by the invasion of the saved la 1896 eo that it ia only a matter for the future when this alleged saving will have to bo paid by a raise in the levy of taxes I 1 de alro to impress upon the council that the city Is being practically run into debt not over ithe legal limit but nevertheless erth eless into debt referred to the finance committee mrs clara E briggs asked a rebate on her dog tax as she was about to leave ogden referred to sanitary committee dr E B graham submitted a claim for a refund of his license paid under protest last year allowed geo G daylo made application for license as plumber and drain layer in ogdan city ills bond and license tee accompanied the application and it was granted claim of dr conroy for refund of license was allowed jno J cortez offered 30 for the iron pipe efrom canyon stream referred to committee on streets claim 0 dr F veterinary surgeon for refund ot license was allowed claims of E auth 6 josephine clare 4 N tanner jr 7 and W L russell G for services as election judges were disallowed the strong canyon water co was leased the water in strongs canyon for 1900 tor 10 the committee on public buildings and grounds reported a claim of jos parry for tor repair of city hall sidewalk allowed A claim of tor damages was presented by A J weber attorney tor E burt who alleged that he was injured while riding up twenty fifth street on a bicycle by reason of the presence on said street ot a plank across said street one end of the plank resting on a wheelbarrow he claimed that he suffered from concussion of the brain as a result of the collision and that his chin was badly cut the accident occurred on the night of oct 8 and in front of the troy steam laundry an ordinance defining the duties of the city recorder was passed its first reading an ordinance levying paving tax in paving district no 3 was passed its third time and went to the mayor the committee of equalization before whom protests and complaints will be heard Is as follows jenkens brewer watson and cullen all members of the city council tho following pay rolls and bills were allowed street department sanitary department police department 1200 public buildings and grounds W r critchlow water supply 2125 |
