The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-22
TO CUT At EVERY POINT.
The Mayor Calls for Economy in Next
Years City Budget.

ADeacit Of over $4,000 This Year.
The New Water Works, the Damage
to the City's Property by the August
Storm and the yellow Fever Guar
antine Responsible for 1.-THE De-
partments at Work Now on Next
Years Appropriations.
All of the city departments are busy
preparing estimates Of expenditures Tor
the BUDGET Of 1898. This is being done by
the request of the mayor with instruc-
tions to use every effort to reduce the
estimates 10 the lowest possible figure
consistent with the proper operation of
the DEPARTMENTS. The heads of all the
departments have been requested to pre-
pare their estimates in the most careful
manner, with a view of economizing at
every point
The mayor will probably call a meeting
of council early next week to con-
slider the next years budget. The
meeting will be adjourned from time
to time until every item of expense has
been carefully considered and agreed
upon. II is not expected to complete the
budget until the latter part Of December.
DEFICIT OF $4,000
The economy recommended by the
MAYOR in making up the appropriations
for next year is rendered necessary by the
now certain deficit in the city's treasury
al the end Of the present year,
This deficit is expected 20 amounted to
nearly $50 GG. 1t is charged to three i'm
pOrtant items, the new water works, the
damage to the city and quarantine station
by toe storm and the quarantine against
the yellow fever. No allowance was made
for the last two items, Of course, in
making up the budget for this
year The appropriation for the new
water works in this years budget was
100000. Ii was expected that the new
works would not be entirely completed
until next year and that part of the eX
pense would be charged to the budget Of
1894 ON account Of the demand for the
works it was decided TO 90 ahead and
complete it entire this year. This was
done at a cost exceeding the appropria-
ton by $4,000.
THE EXTRA EXPENSE.
The extra expense incurred by the city
In repairing the damages by the storm of
Aug n, amounted TO about SO 200.
This expenditure was largely
charged to the health and cemetery
department, as the repairing of the dam
drainage of the flooded lands around the
city and the removing Of the debris of the
storm from the streets of the
city was all done under the
supervision of this department.. The
storm also caused the street and lane
committee several thousand dollars of ex-
ira expense in replacing the plank road
to the lower wharves, and repairing the
streets generally, after the storm.
The cost of minimizing the fiDa
against the yellow fever section, and of
putting the city in condition to resist dis
ease, amounted to several thousand dol
lars
WOULD HAVE BEEN An EVEN BALANCE.
If it had not been for these extra ex-
penses, large portion of which il was
impossible to foresee, the city would have
ended the year with an even balance
sheet. Even with this deficit next years
budget will hardly be as large as this
years. No appropriation for the new
waterworks, the City's heaviest appropria-
tion for three years past, will have to be
made and even with the extra expense to
he incurred in extending the plan of the
city south of Anderson street it is not
expected that the expenditures will be
required to be as heavy next
year as they were this year.
This years budget amounted to SS04,-
0O0 By a careful calculation of the ex-
penditures for next year in the various
departments, Mayor McDonough expects
TO be aole to arrange a budget calling for
a somewhat less amount than this years
budget. With the increase in the val
uatlon of taxable property by the addi-
ton of the section south of Anderson
street, 1t would appear that the rate of
taxation for city purposes should be less
next year than it was this year.