The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-01-27
1909 BUDGET
OF EXPENSES
Estimated Tax Rate $3.50
Necessary
AND THEN A REDUCTION
There viii Be an Unusual Expense This
Year to Retire s7s,ooo Of Sewer
Bonds Which Fall
Due.

Barre's budget for the next municipal
year was presented by the finance com
mittee to the aldermen last evening,
showing an estimated expenditure for
1909 of S270,7399s, to meet which an
income of $2s2, 2,so37l is estimated on
tax rate just the same as last year.
$3.50. The expenses will be unusually
large, as it will be necessary TO retire
$4,000 sewer bonds which become due,
but sinking fund has been laid away
for several years, the sum total Of which,
with this years accretion, will wipe out
the entire bonds with the exception OF
about $3.50. When this issue is retired,
the city's bonded debt viii be approx
mately 100000 which 10 low indeed
The present bonded debt, with note
issues, is $l78,9l425--an increase Of
500 during the year. Against this
slight increase in debt is an increase Of
S2l ,s50.42 in assets during the past year.
There is, moreover, balance OF Sl2,-
0sl00 in the treasury at the close Of
the year, which is nearly eight thousand
more than was left year ago.
Several things" says the finance COM
mittee's report, contributed to increas-
ing our balance to this amount, one OF
the principal being that our city schools
received a larger sum from the state
in the several distributions of the state
school tax and funds than we bad re-
ceived in previous years. This came
about from the fact that our school ex-
penses for the previous year ran over
seventy cents on the dollar of the grand
list and placed us in class whereby
we secured larger per cent. Of the
distribution than usual and enabled the
schools to complete their years business
without calling on the city for anything
over the seventy cent school tax
Further contributing to this condition
was the fact that eve were not called
upon to pay any land damages during
the year and our income from various
sources came fully up to the estimates
made, together with great case used in
the expenditures by the different depart
ments has enabled us to finish the year
with so favorable a balance
The finance committee expresses the
confidence that the estimated income viii
be able to meet the estimated expenses
for 1909 unless an extraordinary appro-
prfation should be called for, for In
stance, the building of storage reser-
Foir for the water system. In order
to bring the sinking fund to the point
where it will be possible to retire the
$4,000 sewer bonds due this year the
committee recommends that thirty cents
of the years tax rate be set aside for
that purpose.
AT the same time. the estimates for
the other departments are such as to
provide appropriations to continue the
liberal policy pursued on streets and
sidewalks, also to add to the street
sprinkling service and to pay part Of
the cost Of changing the course Of the
river if that work is carried out during
the year.
BY another year substantial reduc-
tion" in the tax rate is promised by the
finance committee, provided there are no
and large outlays of money, and
the. report, in closing, calls upon the
succeeding finance committee to careful
ly supervise the expenditures in tho
various departments and follow as close-
ly as possible the plans mapped out by
the committee now in Office
There were several other reports pre-
sented last night. The trustees Of the
French Barre library reported that there
are now 2,233 volumes in the library
and that the balance Of the fund Is
$33779. The fire committee referred to
the small fire loss during the year and
the department on it's eff
cheney and especially spoke of the inter-
est taken in the work by the regular
firemen.
One important recommendation was
made in the report of the water COM
mittee, that looking toward steps for
building O storage reservoir at Orange.
The committee believes this is becom-
ing necessary, although even during the
dry times of last summer the city was
able to get along by dint of close scru-
tiny of the waste. The legislation COM
mittee told of the enactment Of several
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