Show city ant macager mana Maa ager ger cuts 71 ap ax 1 D ate la ia treasury 1391 balance ance increases from to in four years clarinda Cla riDda la ia clarinda has just jost completed a four year experiment in city government four years ago i clarinda engaged a manager to run the town that manager lias has just resigned to go to janesville wis but i clarinda is so BO proud of its one man government that it wants to tell the world all about it when clarinda begin began talking city i i management five or els ix yeas years ago there was very little information to be had bad on the subject the system was new people thought it should work out all right but know what to expect from the plan but clarinda now knows paid cash for everything the city manager henry traxler trailer took office on april 1 1919 on that day there was a balance in the city treasury of after tour four years of one man management the cites balance Is the tux tax rate has haa not been raised it actually has been lowered many thousands of dollars worth of improvements prove ments have been made and clarinda has paid cash tor for everything clarinda got in those four years cents worth fo dollar it spent lor for material and labor it did not bother itself to find out it if a republican could clean more square yards of pavement than a democrat or whether a socialist was a better worker than a prohibitionist an employees plo politics potti cs was lost sight right of completely ely all he had bad to do was to work no matter how bow he be voted some of the results here are some of the improvements clarinda has made in the last four years installed ft a new wate purification system bought an armory and made it serve also for a city business building purchased a municipal cemetery laid many miles of new paving costing in 1921 alone rebuilt the fire station and added new apparatus dept up lop the ordinary repairs to all city property while other towns and cities were toting and issuing bonds right and left and fastening a heavy debt on coming generations clarinda paid its way as it went and did not issue a single sins le bond furthermore while taxes were mounting skywards in other cities and towns toung clarinda actually cut its tax rate in 1816 1016 the tax levy was 42 mills this year it was 42 mills in clung a 2 mill levy for the municipal band saved in fees among the jobs of the city man nger was that of handling the municipal waterworks water works clarinda Is proud of its water system it Is called the best in southwestern iowa and its rates are quite a bit lower than another in Jn other cities of the same class on april ri 1 1919 the water works balance was va 27 now it la Is more than in the meantime the plant has been built up to the minute and pays nil all overhead costs of 0 operation and replacements the armory cost the city and additional was spent to modernize the building so that it could be used for offices as well part of the building not used by the city is rented for a year which more than pays all expenses the building also Is use used d by the ahe band and tho the auditorium Is reserved for public affairs without expense the cemetery bought by the city manager for now has in its maintenance fund while the city elty was spending for paving the city manager who also Is an engineer took charge of the paving program and in one year saved the town in engineering fees |