Show THE CONTROL OF PUBLIC expenditures 17 the budgets continued from front page county commissioners a te tentative tate budget which sets forth in detail the revenues and expenditures 0 of the preceding calendar year and the estimated revenues and expenditures for the current calendar year together with other important information this budget Ss is placed on file lit in the office ot of the county auditor for public inspection tor for at least fifteen days prior to tile the inal a option of tile budget on or before december the board of f county commissioners must adopt a tina budget velch contains the propos ro expenditures for the next calell calendar year but before this budget can bo be adopted a notice must be pub lit the lie newspapers having pen gen eral cral circulation within the county advising the taxpayers that it Is proposed to adopt a budget and a public hearing must be allowed before the budget Is adopted when this public hearing is held every taxpayer in the county who is interested te has an opportunity to be heard aheard of course as a practical matter it is difficult it not out of the question for every taxpayer in a county to be present at the office of the board of 0 county commissioners to discuss the proposed budget but it Is not out of the question or impractical tor for taxpayers in the various communities throughout the county to send representatives to 10 meet with the county board to as vist in the formulation ot of the budget it is important to note that tho the time to control th elevy for county purposes is before the budget is adopted in december after once this budget has been adopted it Is useless to try to reduce the amount to be expended it is highly important therefore that any taxpayer who is interested in his taxes for the year 1932 should become active in studying the proposed budget and in preparing recommendations to the board or of county commissioners the budget tor for city purposes is prepared at the same time and very much in the same manner as the county budget and the same opportunities tuni ties are given to taxpayers to meet with the city officials to as alst in the formulation of this budget as is 19 given in the case of the county budget in this case also it la Is important to observe that the budget tor for city purposes will be approved before december 31 ot of luis this year and that no change can call be made in this budget after that date any taxpayer who Is concerned with I 1 the taxes tor for city purposes for the dear 1932 should avail himself of 0 the opportunity to assist in determining the amount of 0 such taxes the budget for school purposes is prepared during the month ot of june ot of each year in this respect it is different therefore from the county and the city budget but tho the same principles are arc involved in all three budgets the taxpayers who are concerned with public expenditures ruay may concentrate their efforts on tile the taxes for city and county durpos a during the llie month of december of this year and then duri during 1 I ti the a mouth month of june of next year tile they will have the same opportunities to control the school budget as they have now to control the city and county budgets |