The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1909-07-15

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first administration, IN 1906. the city
should have levied a special tax of
one-tenth of enc per cent. for the
board as authorized by the legisla-
ture in 1905. but it was not included
in the tax levy for that year, and
on October %, 1905, Chairman Cook
of the finance committee, introduced
a resolution making a special appro-
prlation to the board of $1,000 for
the year 1905, ard a note payable
December 20, 1905, for $4,000. was
gwen TO hem on account The re-
naming $4,000 on account of 1906
was left as an inheritance for the
Symons administration to pay. which
it did on June 4, 1907, taking receipt
as in full settlement and in cOmmu-
tation of the special tax of tenth
of one per cent. This IS OF intended
as any criticism or reflection OIL any
particular administration, but to
demonstrate the position taken by
this committee with reference to
these appropriations that the city
pad when it was able, but did pay,
and the board of education had no
right in making their calculations to
think otherwise.
In 1907 the pecial TAX of one tenth
of one per cent. was levied, and as
the tax money came in, the board S
proportion was paid over to them, on
August 26, 1907, $4,000 being paid to
them in cash
In December, 1907, the point of il
legality Of the tax (not having been
voted on by The people, was raised
at time when nearly half the tax
digest was uncollected and rather
than risk tying up such an amount of
taxes in litigation, the chairman of
your committee, after consultation
with Mayor Symons and City Attor-
ney Meader, decided to waive the
! point, and it was decided to give
them in lieu of it the usual $4,000.
The remaining $4,000 was left for the
council of 1908 to take care of, and
they paid $1,000 of it on July II, 1908,
another $1,000 on October 26, 1908.
and left the balance of $1,000 AS
! a legacy to the council of 1909, who
paid it on May "a, 1909. In 1908
neither by tax levy or appropriation,
was a dollar appropriated until Jan
uary 4, 1909, at an adjourned session
Of the last regular meeting of the
, council of 1908. Thus the council of
1909 had $1,000 from 1907 and $4,000
from 1903 to assume. yet following
the past custom it appropriated an
! additional $4,000 for the board, short
ly after council organized early in
1909; and yet in May, 1909, scarcely
four months afterwards, a resolution
| was introduced by the mayor to give
the city's notes on account to the
board for $4,000 Your committee
pointed out in reporting adyersel.- on
said resolution prudential reasons for
| not giving city notes, and stated HAT
they would recommend the payn, mt
OF its Indebtedness to the board. as
1t had in the past, when it vas a1le.
| The statement of President Wood hat
people think that we get an encrrI-
GUS sum out of Town Commons but
that source of revenue is one o. the
curses of the board. Only a SNAIL
sum is received annually rom this
source" in our opinion was raih.r
unfortunate; we, of course, realize that
in an address without notes a speaker
is apt to get his figures confused, tut
in order to correct the erroneous ir,-
preston created by the statement we
beg to submit the official figures
showing considerable amount, a"ct.
aging since 1903 more per ycdr than
the special appropriations Of sj.m9
per annum.
Taxes from digest of 1903, net a.
POSTS from Town Commons; Town
Commons leases, $2,495.33. A. Of
which was paid in 1903 except s5Ji55
paid in 1904.
Digest of 1904, net s4,39S9' leases,
$2OO.01. All paid in 1904 except
S7S760 paid n 1905.
Digest of 1905, net $4,721SO; leases
S9O5.91. All paid in 1905 except
$761.79, paid in 1906.
Digest of 1906, net S4,735.34; leases,
$65123. All paid in 1906, except
$64462.
Digest of 1907, net $1,817O4; Leases.
$175.21. All paid in 1907 except
$1,065.75, paid in 1908.
Digest of 1903, net $4,897O6; Iels"s.
s3O942 All paid in 1908, except
$1,1S4.39, which the council of 1903
raid on June 18th, 1909.
The tax digest for 1909 shows taxes
due the board from Town Commons
when collected of $5,33352, while the
lease money is in addition. in he
statement that Brunswick contributes
one-ninth the per capita of any eli,
in the state towards its pubic
schools, the president of the toa
is undoubtedly mistaken for if ,ha
statement means anything at all, !.
means that in proportion to popula
ton, Brunswick contributes only 81
where no other city in Georgia Goa
tributes less than 50, for instap r~.
Brunswick has averaged 903-
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