Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-31
Celebration of the 2soth An.
s15.1oo.00

sAorlVusNu The sum of these estimates is equal to about K mills on the grand list. The Committee recommend that the warning for the next annual City Meet ing include the last named estimates and a call for action thereon.
 At a City Meeting held March 26, 1909. the Court of Common Council was authorized to appropriate from the City Treasury such an amount not exceeding $20,000 as may be necessary to pay the expenses for erecting a new dam and appurtenances at Meadow Brook and of acquiring lands, rights and other the water supply. but the resolution adopted at said meeting did not pro- vide the method of raising the sums necessary for such expenditure.
 Your Committee recommend that in- asmuch as said appropriation Is made for a permanent improvement and ad- dition to the water supply, the expense thereof should not be included in the ordinary expenses of the current year, and your Committee recommend that the warning for the next annual City Meeting shall include a proposition au- thoriZing the borrowing of such funds upon the notes of the CitY payable in four equal annual installments and that the same be liquidated from the receipts of the water department.
 Under an act of the General Assem- bly, approved June 13, 1907, the County Commissioners, the Mayor of the City and the Selectmen of the Town of Nor wich were constituted a Board for tile erection of the addition to the Court House in Norwich and were authorized to borrow such sum as might be neces- sary for the erection of such addition and to execute notes for the sum so borrowed. which notes shall be binding and obligatory upon the County of New London the Town of Norwich and the City of Norwich.
 Pursuant to law, such Board has ex- ecuted its note for the sum of $50. 900 expended in the erection of such addi- ton and it is desirable that the joint obligation so created should be re- placed, by separate obligations for the proportion of the expense which each interest is to bear. The City's propor- ton thereof has been determined as provided in the Act to be the sum of Your Committee therefore recom- mend that there shall be included in the warning or the next annual City execution and delivery of the obligation of the City for Sl0,00O for it's propor- tion of the expense of Court House ad- dition upon the retirement of the joint utilization now outstanding.
 Your Committee further recommend that there be included in the warning proposition to authorize the sale of the fire station property situate on West Main street and of the fire sta- tion property situate on Boswell ave- me fine same being no longer required for the purposes of the fire department and that the moneys realized therefrom be aDDrOpflaltQ IOr lnc HLIlnk up or inc Thamesville fire station, to provide for the installation of a steam fire en- zine and chemical engine for the pro- lection of that section of the City in Accordance with the recommendations of the Committee on Fire Department. Your Committee further recommend the adoption by the Court of Common Council of the following resolutions:
 Resolved. That the report and esti- mates of the Committee on Finance be accepted and approved; that the Clerk q [. fn hn 1lal. ouired by the amended charter. and that the Mayor or in his absence the Senior Alderman present, be directed on behalf of the Court of Common Council to submit the estimates em- braced in this report to the next City Meeting to be held on the first Monday of June nexr and to recommend that a tax of 10 mills be laid on the last per- fected grand list of the City.
 COSTELLO LIPPITT.
 FRANK A. ROBINSON,
 c. LESLIE HOPKINS.
 Committes on Finance.
 hereby certify that the above and