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Show Muyor lVlicrs Mc.ssuj-e (Couth jod from tint page I levied lo tiiisU'u1 and repair sew -vrs and drains Hi against 2 mills now; llmt 10 mills may bo I I I to construct mill niiiiiiiaiu olcctilo liKht. vvalcr works .v. (, as against S mills now; I'top. i' ran' will be necessary under the new syai.etn 'o calculate the rule noro-sary in 1 1 to raise ihe louuirod ioeuue for the City. Klcll-lo l.'ghf Dopai tiuenl. Tlio receipts of tho electric light. department for 1 1 a amounted lo $&13?.'f aiul the operating expenses for i ho samo period lo $2:!Sf '.'J. II is gratitying to s,v tlio depart men! making a favorable show in v. . whvh promises wi'll for tho future, il is reported by tho e'en rician, that le-s than one half of ihe power whirl) Uio plant Is capable oi onora I i ir: Is used ovon during the night, when the um-sumptioii um-sumptioii is hoiivic;;. Tins moans that tho oilier one half during tho night ami practically the entire amount during the day is lost to tho City. The mnohiucrv would suffer but little move mar. the linos would be none the worse oil' if used to its capacity. The proposition is elear, that shire the city h is made an investment in-vestment of about .!S0il0.0U 111 'his plant, it is par; of the business of the city officials io lim! a market for the surplus product of ;he plant, if such can he found. This will furnish furn-ish an interesting pro' lem for the e'octrie light , )' an.! ihe entire en-tire eouui' i. .'o"a ! '. ; -a iv ho taken tak-en on by the proper kind of activity. Encouragement could 'a- given tlu patrons in the im t ;!'.:;' on of o!ec-tr'cal o!ec-tr'cal appliances. To do this, continuous continu-ous service would be necessary and some rate fixed to make i! prutiai-b'.e. prutiai-b'.e. This method has already received re-ceived the attorn on of ihe council a't.l arrangements partially eomplet-ed eomplet-ed to put the plant into continuous operation. By the plan proposed the city will be at no extra e:-peaso over what it is paying at ihe present lime for the service boin;," given. In connection with this department, depart-ment, I desire to call your r.tte tion to the fact that the previous o mil-cil mil-cil took steps to so .u'e from the government, gov-ernment, the laud upon which the power house stands, and land about the intake of the pipe line. Theie lay open a considerable tract of land. be. longing to the federal government. Of this, the State Land Hoard ha; piomiscd t do vvb.u it e ::i in t'u selecting se-lecting of I GO acres that the ehy may punhase from the si r.e One payment of JS-VO'i has hi en made on the land, and u w.'.i be r..ve . ..rv to fol'.o'v up t'.r's i"j;;:r to acc're a proper title. 'i here lemairs in the posses sion of the city the dy:.....i. or generator and cvher e'.ivtnc machine ma-chine purchased in car.ue:"..on won the elect r'e system from the Mount Pleasant M 11 and rower Co n-pany. n-pany. Some s;e;s .-houli be taken looking to the dspo-k.ou of lirs machinery. ma-chinery. The machinery is in gooii condition, but o. no U;e to the city Vater Supply. One of the urgent reel's of the city at the pteseat rme r.n n.dei uate sunply of water fnr the wate- works system. Au ar?.nge:-:er.t e lists a. the present time wi.li the Pleasant Creek Irrigation Cor. pany by vhi; 'i water has ben ob:a:"e'. to inee". "Cat reeds of the c:tv, vviiete the supply owned by the city has 1 een ir.suffi-.e'ent; ir.suffi-.e'ent; but it siioc.id Le ta-' i!" re ol the city o'rieiais to provi.ie a sufficient amount of water to n;e?l the city's nca Ti'.e possibility O"" using c0-tric Dnvor to pua p water wa-ter might he wot thy of copsiderot'ior and investigation. Tilrre is It little doubt that greater ecoaoaiy on the part of the w;.ter u-ers wc ;!i heipi the city materially in this difficulty.-Leaky difficulty.-Leaky hydrants shouid I e rep?ire-l or the water shut or.'. Violation of thf ordinances or-dinances in regard to the extravr-.-feace and improper me of wat-.-r, should te pun'isi.f-l. A careful administration admin-istration of the department in this re . grd is almost imperative. The installation in-stallation of water flitters may ,;ce relief. 1 suggest, at least the use for experimentation of the meters, already al-ready in possession of the city, fci-ie "tValk. Demands come to the City oeeas-siorjally oeeas-siorjally for the cieaiiou of new sidewalk side-walk paving districts and for the construction con-struction of cement sidewalks. At the present time there are about five miles of cement sidewalk in the city. , The citizens have had ample opportunity oppor-tunity to demonstrate the convenience conveni-ence and comfort of the paved sidewalks. side-walks. I recommend that the demands de-mands of the c'tizens for aiditioa! ' s'dewalks be met as far as possi'de. It is understood that ihe e :pense of such conslru'-tion talis mos ly upon up-on the owners of the proper'.y abut-ing abut-ing the walk. The strt-ot crossings are paid for by the City. I would, l'ov.e-er, surnjes-t that it, the creation crea-tion of new districts, the time allowed allow-ed for the paying of the asse'sment be reduced to fi e ye rs hereafter, instead of ten yeai3, as in the past. City Hall. I would recommend that the City Hall be made popular; that our citizens citi-zens be invited to me 't for all cases of meeting in the in'e-et of our citizens. Of course this privilege fhould not be abused and cleanlineif and proner deceiruri should 'e enforced. en-forced. The council ch-imobr s much in need of repairs, as may be seen. I suggest that sleps taken to give it a clean and attractive appearance appear-ance and to provide for a proper draft for the stove. Keep'ng: Ai-counts. The City has grown to ho an institution insti-tution doing bu:-in'--3 amounting annually an-nually to nearly S J 0. fiOti. r.nd it is neressary that modern f;s.":iis oi accounts be kept for proper check on the city business. To that end we should co I!:: tie the c.."e of triplicate recv pts as rt present. All items shoutd bc- nrope-i-ly rere:pted for, and the stubs or triplicates prererved and filed in p-oper order that it may be used in auditing or cheeking up accounts. And the Keee-i'li r and Treisuier should trc reuu'rnd to l-op A'a-ount Hooks, giving fill! del.i'is of receipts and dis-burs.c-ments, oilier oifciais of the city receiving money should be required requir-ed U kcu dscouula o pryytiriy handled and nioaevn collected. No mono) of ihe clly idiould he paid out by aus o.llcuil, evcopl the '1'reaHiirer, and that oulv upon warrant:! iiulhor-l.'.od iiulhor-l.'.od !iy the Clly Council. All olll-c;ahi olll-c;ahi of the Clly, who have the daily of colled lug moneys, should bo prompt In making such collection, and monthly, or olloner, all moneys so coliecled idioiild bo turned Int.) (he Clly TrenKtiter and receipt taken I lu rotor. Audil lug Aocounli. Croin ve.ir.s of experience, 1 mil thori ' ighly convinced that nil ac-' i mints of the olllclals of Ihe cliv! should be chocked and iiinllled, and 1 recommend that the proper eom-uilltee eom-uilltee iiuilit the iiccounts of Ihe pant a d in i nisi in t ion. This Is not lor the pin pose of easting any rolled Ions upon up-on any olllclals, bin it Is for Ihe purpose pur-pose of learning the true conditions ;of a flairs. The people of the 1 1 ;, have a riaht to know Ihat their oll'-cial oll'-cial are doing their duly and are nc-i nc-i com ting io Ihe City for the funds i handled by them. 1 know that if these recommendations recommenda-tions moot wltli your approval and are '-"'.lowed, (hat good results will be c r a Ined thereby. Stale Highways. It Is more than two years since a special lax levy of 5 mills on the dollar was assessed against ihe p'o-perty p'o-perty In Mount Pleasant product, for ihe purpose of const met ing the Stale , Highway through the pre. inc. aorta 'and south. The Slate lioad Commlc-;sion Commlc-;sion prom'sed that an eijiial amount ' would bo contributed tuit of the funds 'of ihe Stale, for this purpose. The I Highway was designated and parllv completed and all but $ltiOU or f ISO'! i'f the money expended on the road. The road was finished from th" north a Sta'e Street to the bridge over I'lrr i'i! Creek, near Main Street and on ""h West Street from the Souih lo Main Street, for a distance oi I ve blocks the load was not comtdo'"d, ilue in part to the lack of proper plans to follow in making the Improvement Im-provement along Main Street, and pat'ly of Ihe fact that the telephone i poles In tho center of the Street should be tirst removed. Another ta.r levy of '2 mills was made last July on the property within the city and collected in connection with the general tax. The receipts from th's tax wore lo be devoted to the completion comple-tion of this work. This tax was lev-'od lev-'od by the City Council in the nnticl-pi'-'ou that the appropriation of an eoual amount would again be made bv the Stale. It seems, however, that in this v. e shall be dis-saripoirted. dis-saripoirted. Put even without any ad-v'on;'l ad-v'on;'l help from the State, there should be from $-foHI to I'Snil avail-aide avail-aide for this work. And now, as 'he telephone poles will shortly ! '"imp 1 from the street, it will be ro'Sib'e to get at th's work. It v-'U become the duty of the City Council to surgest some sort of rlan 'or cmroruoting the road along Main St-ort ar-.I cooperating wiih the Sta'e P.oad Commission in this matte-. i:.pon-ilili:y of Otlid.iN. j i'r an.oti e of the Ce-ancil have jail ready b'en announced, so that the members of the Council are even r.ow aware of the particular departments depart-ments rf the city's business which are to be looked afier by them. It Is to 'no hoped that the appointive o -Ti -cers of the City and the employpes 'n all of the departments work in harrrony with the Committee of the Council. which has dire"t hart-e of their particular work. It is to he hoped lor that all who accept ac-cept r pnointtuen's' in any line of the city's service will fel that the fi-st duty is in the interest of me City's welfare. To this end every one should seek to do his work most , economically and efficiently. |
