The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-03
THE FUNDS GETTING LOW
THE CITY HAS TO BORROW TEN
THOUSAND DOLLARS.

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All but $4,000 of the Budget Spent
and Three Months Expenses Yet to
| be Provided For-rhe Liberty Street
Property Owners Refusal to Pay
for the Asphalt Pavement Upsets
the Calculations of the Oity's Finan-
ciers How the Money Has Been
| Spent.
! The city's funds, according to Clerk
Rebarers statement made to the city coun-
Gil last night, are getting very low. Olt of
the budget appropriation of $4,000 70
carry the city through the year, close TO
S5j3,OO0 has already been spent, and there
are three months yet before the year closes.
The board Of health. city court, public
buildings, water aud quara ltine depart
ments have already overdrawn their appro
priations. The appropriation for incidentals
has been exceeded nearly 5000 Slightly
more than the amount appropriated has
already been spent in the improve
nent of Laurel Grove cemetery.
Some expenses not provided for in the bud
get have also been incurred. The opening of
new streets has cost the city, 50 far, $3.50,
paving sidewalks $275, city lots sos. city
map 2715, amounting in all to not quite
$4,000. The board of health has overdrawn
its appropriation $4,000, and over $1,000
more than was appropriated has been spent
on quarantine, and $500 on the water
works.
THE STREET PAVING TROUBLE.
OF the drainage appropriation, which
was S45, 600, less thana$500 has been spent
on drainage. The balance of the approprI-
alton went to pay for the street paving.
This is the biggest item in the list. The APP
preparation was $4,000, but nearly Sl05,
900 has been spent About 500, 600 was to
pay for contracts made by the last council.
Ihe Liberty street pavement cost about
$4,000 the city paid for it, expect
ing that the property owners
would pay their share, which
they refused to do, and the city is out
$4,000, or its proportion of the Till, until
the matter is settled in the courts. The
paving of Broughton street east of Aber-
corn street was paid for by the present
council. The present council spent the
$4,000 appropriated for this years paving,
and a little more. in the Improvement of
Jefferson sire It, which has been paved as
far south as Charlton street, at cost to the
city of about $ll, 900.
HAD TO BORROW $4,000.
The last council left balance in the treas
ury of $4,000, against which there were
unpaid bills amounting to ABOUT 81, 900, 50
that after paying the paving bills of the
last council, and paying for the jefferson
street improvement, the city was pretty
hard up, and it has had to Dor
row $4,000 TO tide over until the
present quarters taxes are paid in.
The loan was negotiated through the
National Bank Of Savannah, and is a call
loan bearing 6 per cent. interest, for which
the city gave its note. About 81, 500 Of the
money has already been spent. With the
present quarters taxes AID the receipts
from all urces, including the amount due
by property owners for paving, paid in, the
city's financiers say that they viii be able to
pay cut all right by the end of the year.
HOW THE MONEY WAS SPENT.
The following statement Of the city's ex-
penses during the last nine months, up to
Sept. 80, with the appropriations for the
various departments for the year. submitted
by the clerk of council last night, shows
how matters stand: