Show council cuts one mill from city tax levy tobe 23 mills this year on assess ed valuation other business transacted at reg ular monthly meeting at the negiz regular r meeting or tho the local city council on tuesday evening with councilman L J adams acting as mayor pro tern tem in the absence ot of mayor A C hatch the tax tac levy tor for the ithe corning coming year was set at 23 mills this Is one mill below what the levy has haa been for or a number of years the cut being made possible because the levy ot of one mill lor for the improvement guaranty lund fund was no longer necessary this one mill was levied to guarantee payment to the holders of bonds issued for or the paving and curb and gutter improvements these bonds are now retired ref and the city holds amvie ample property which it has haa taken over to pay the remaining indebtedness on that project ct the rest of the levy remains the same as last year and is broken down as follows foll vs contingent or general fund 6 5 mills streets and sidewalks emills 3 mils library Kib emills 2 mills bond interest 65 mills sinking fund 65 mills total 23 mills the assessed valuation ot of paro wan city dropped approximately 1 r 0 00 frd from in what it wras was a year ago or from slightly over to so the revenue from taxes which the ORY city will receive will be lower than last year by about it if collection ot of taxes could be made other business transacted the county fair committee asked that parowan carowan city appropriate 2500 cash toward financing the tha pair fair to be held here during september T Vs jr request was made in writing whitin 9 and ana no members of the committee were present to explain why this set amount was asked tor for the council I 1 therefore made the appropriation as requested the council decided to build a permanent bridge 18 feet long of concrete or metal culvert type at the crossing at the sam orton corner and the marshal and the street and sidewalks committee were instructed ted to start work on it 11 at once this bridge which has never been in the middle of 0 the street has been in bad condition ever since the high water in tile the spring and has now low reached a stage where something has to be done about it A complete record ot of cost is to be kept with the idea ot of making other bridges like it as they are needed if it Is cheaper to use a big metal culvert that Is to be considered also I 1 the bridge at the 11 II D bayles corner was ordered repaired temporary lly ily until such time as a permanent one can call be installed there the now new plan for the collection ot of parowan carowan city light power and water rentals as drawn up ii by recorder matheson Mathes and treasurer benson was approved by the counell council this plan as used by all private utility companies and most municipal corporations provide tor for one man to read the meters and turn in tho the readings another person makes out the slips malls them to customers and then collects the money at his office so from now on mr Ma Al theaon atheson will read the meters both water and light anil and turn the readings over to aar benson at the city office the latter will make out the slips mall mail them out and all rentals will be paid to him at the city office lie will ba thero there every afternoon aTter noon of the week except elc opt saturday and sunday to make these collections this does av away ny with the old way in which more than one man was handling tile the money and accounts and which caused so many inix ups air belian is elso charged with th the ot of making the delinquent list ilet A comma communication ni cation frow W r P A asked that the council recommend 1 man tor for foreman of the project tor for the removal of undesirable trees and replacing them with new ones As clefford CI efford evans was the only applicant tor for the JON job his nam nama 3 was recommended bended tor for foreman on the pro project eject which Is scheduled to start icart august in reporting the last meeting the times was waa in error in stating that alaria marl 0 was continued to back dagel jaee COUNCIL CUTS ONE 2011 FROM CITY TAX LEVY continued from first pace ito to be foreman mr is supervisor per visor only and was so named because any governmental unit sponsoring a W P A project must name a supervisor tor for it the councilmen present L J adams john H pendleton marlo and walter C mitchell named themselves as a committee to meet with mr harold richards of 0 the cedar city camp to see it if some labor can be procured from that source to do some work at the forbay in the canyon and the water division and gravel trap at the top ot of town some other matters of minor importance Dor tance were considered and the months claims against the city were acted upon before the meeting adjourned |