Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-04-12
The Legislature Must be
Appealed To
For Permission to Increase the
Tax Levy.

chairman OF the dnnucc committee of
the Board has prepared n tablo Of iig.
ures designed to show thut the ca
penses incident to the riot and the an
ncxation of new territory are RESPONSE
ble for the Increase in the citys debt.
His statement shows that the total
overdrafts for the fiscal, year ending
March 20 1900, amounted TO Sl0,7Sl.-
81, ana the total of balances on hand
amounted to $75, ,206.i2.
The total over drafts for the fiscal
year ending March 20, 1901, were $685.
096.53, and the total balances were
$T0,600.51.
The aggregate Of all items in this
statement charged to the riot, the pur-
chase of new furniture rent of city
prison, now cells, special police, etc,
and of the expenses of annexation,
surveys, maps, etc, is S25,030.50.
The Increase in the overdrafts for
the year just ended is thus shown to
be S2S,214.56. Subtracting from these
figures the S25.03O.5O, charged to the
INV 'hN ltHN'S Nlo, lSf.Vt,
ns the increase in the overdrafts aside
from the unusual expenses referred to.
The decrease in the balances in
funds which are not over
drawn Is the difference between S15,-
296,l2 and S7060O.5l, which is S4,GO5.-
81.
BY reason of borrowing $4,000 since
the close of the fiscal year, March 20,
last, the present state of the funds Is
as follows: Total lrovcrdrafts, $l0S31. =
9i; total balances, S1O7 ,994.G9
Mr.. .McMlllcn also calls attention to
the fact that for three years 1t has
been required that the citys portion
OF street improvements must be paid
out of the general revenue funds. This
means that the city cannot have it's
share of the cost included i'm the bond
issue and thus pay the cost in Install
ments as the property owners do. Tho
city must therefore pay cash and it
has done so, though borrowed money
has been used in doing so in many
cases.
The city's portion of the cost of i'm
provcments made last year announced
TO S23,37Sii. The city's portion of
the estimated cost of improvements
TO he made this year, if brick is used
In all the paving, Is S23,637.SS.
What can be done about these i'm
provements Is still u problem, but il
has been decided that for the present
they must be held up.
Under the law ns il has been laid
down to us said Mr.. McNIllen. Fri.
day, I'VE can pursue no other course.
The property owners want improve
ments made but the city cannot pay
lis share and the work cannot be done.
There is only one thing we can do and
that is To drag along just as we are
doing now and next winter 90 to the
Legislature and obtain permission to
| Increase the tax levy.
There is nothing else to do and we
must get the money whether the Legls-
| lature Is Democratic or Republican.
Improvements are needed faster
than the duplicate will raise the mon
ey TO pay for them" Mr. McMillen
went on, and then called attention to
improvements of permanent nature
which it was found necessary to make
the past year entirely at the Clty'S
expense. Among them We're the gut
terlng of Hazel st, at n cost of 5000,
gutterlng ana curblng West Buchtel
ave, $500; Stag on Park ST. 5000; Grace
park and Collppn ST innrnvnn,nut
$1,000; Stormwater sewer from Mar
ket ST. TO canal near Renner'S brew
cry, $4,000; stormwater sewer in
Wolf ST., $500
The conference which the Commits,
sioners were to have had with Col
Geo, T. Perkins and Hon. Geo, w,
Grouse, aud others Friday evening has
been indefinitely postponed.
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