Show 0 P E N L LETTER E T R TO T U W L W WARKER A R P E IR richfield utah november 1 1927 mr L W L warner richfield utah dear sir some time hm has elapsed since the financial report of the condition of the city of richfield given by you at the party primary of the citizens party wu was published in the reaper and since you have made no move to correct the statement contained in the newspaper report I 1 assume that the statements are arc as you made them according to this report the present administration has operated the city for twenty one months for about less than it cost the former administration ministration id to operate the city luring during the bi annum 1921 25 you also mention the payment of city debts debt in the amount of approximately you also point with considerable pride to a sink ing fund of about which has been established by th the present administration the alleged economy in operating expenses and the alleged reduction of debts is so s great relt that it appeared to me that if your statement is correct there should have been some prosecutions for misappropriation of funds brought against the responsible parties since there have been no such actions brought I 1 could not conceive of the enormous reductions of the operating expense and the public debt 1 I therefore made a cursory examination of tile the cites books I 1 find that in making the total of something like which you allege it cost the city for operating expense of the former administration you have counted certain items twice tice when the tha money nas paid out tle the item was charged but that a administration d finist ration was obliged to borrow money in anticipation of the ta money just as the present administration is doing now and when that money was repaid to the bank you counted it again in order to make up the amount of you also included the cost of the construction of the rest room on main street tile the graveling of the school grounds and about expended in the construction st of the sliming pool Is it not a fact that when all the items that are not properly operating expenses are eliminated from the amount vo vou u gave as t the he ope operating expense of the former fonner administration tho t are not properly operating expenses the amount will vill be less than j in other words if the accounts of the former administration had been kept on oil the same system as those of the present administration they would sho show the operating expenses of the city for the bi annum under the former administration of about and of the present administration for twenty one months month of this would make a difference difference of in favor of the present administration but you still have three months expenses to pay to complete the full bi annum your average expense has been per month therefore at the end of your bi annum it will have cost the city for operating expenses epen ses during the present administration which of the cites obligations obligation have been reduced how much have each of thee obligations a been reduced when the wi writer iter asked these ques questions of thi the E city accountants lie he aas as gien ien the following explanation the owners of property liable for special improvement debts have paid son something bething over to remove the liens from their property prop eity the city has a sinking fund of about and the estimated tax that will be collected this year is about all of these items make the le of ind indebtedness es claimed by the present administration Is this the method you used to get the fig figures ures given if it is not how do you arrive at the figure the people want the facts I 1 am ain yours truly T A I 1 HUNT f L |