Show I Benefits of Commission I Form FornI of City Government V 0 THAT several eral of oC the he the members of the tho commission commission com coin V No LN mission mission which will administer the city affairs affairs af of- fairs of Salt Lake after January 1 I have hn begun th their ir trip to tu investigate conditions in some other cities which have adopted and anti have ha operated under a similar similar sim sim- ilar charter for some sonic time the public will ill be interested inter inter- ested eted in in learning what the they may be expected to find in iii the way of city finances Those cities which have hn inaugurated the commission form have ha found that it t simplifies government o abolishes many offices makes officials more directly responsible to the people abolishes the oligarchy under which so 80 many American Ameri Amen can cities are staggering and institutes a n lemoc- lemoc rac racy In In Ill Des under tinder the lie new form th the ta tax rate for the first three years was two and one-half one mills less thou than the era a average e annual rate for the eight preceding pre pre- ced ceding n years In Memphis l the rate was isas reduced one mill to the lowest rate rale in sixteen n years In Sioux Cit City the rate rale was i reduced educed two and h one half lf mills in in Topeka the reduction was only half a R. mill hut but buta huta a deficit of was quickly removed In Trenton Trenton Trenton Tren Tren- ton during the fi first t month of the new new form fonn of government go there was a reduction of in incurrent current expenses with an increased efficiency In Austi 1 the tax rate rale was reduced two and one- one half mills al a aid Dallas under the commission form is spending over three millions of dollars in city im improvements im- im plo without increasing the rate rale Burlington saved the first year while Haverhill lla paid off of bills legacy of the former gov government government- saved in in current expenses and retired over O in bonds on the same tax rate which the I former city government go found inadequate to meet the current expenses of the city These are a few of the benefits in a financial way s seemed secured by some sonic of the cities which h have ve enjo enjoyed enjoyed en en- jo joyed ed and arc are enjoying the commission form of eit city government and these benefits have ha not been garnered gar gar- at Ot the of s nr or of im jill jill- pro It 1 is the experience of r cs these cities that more and greater city improvements arc are made than under the thc prior system because economy in administration administration administration admin admin- leaves Jel a margin n to be he spent for beautifying beautify beautify- ing the city making it a more comfortable place in ill which to live Efficient government go with a a. a low tax Lax rate is the thc summum bonum bon so far as c civic jc affairs affairs affairs af af- af- af fairs are concerned oj I- I IJ J |