Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-24
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 5.250.C0
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The sum of these estimates IS equal to about 1H mills on the grand list The Committee recommend that the warning for the next annual Citv Meet ing include. the last named estimates and 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 $2O,OOO as may be necessary to pay the expenses for erecting new dam and aPpurtenlances at Meadow Brook and of acquiring lands. rights and other property necessary for conservation of 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 Tor 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- thorlZlng the borrowing of such funds upon the notes of the City payable in four equal annual insta1lments and that the same be liquidated from the receipts of th@ water department.
 - Cnder an act Of the General Assem- ply approved June 13, 1907, the County Commissioners, the Mayor of the City and the Selectmen of the Town of Nor wien were constituted Board for the 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 tba City of Norwich.
 Pursuant to law, such Board has ex- ecuted it's note for the sum of S5O. 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 inc proportion of the expense which each interest is to bear. The City's propor- tion 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 of the next annual City execution and delivery of the Obligation of the City for $10.000 for it's propor- tioF t.o of the expense of Court House ad- obligation now outstanding.
 Your Comnittee further recommend that there be included in the Warning of the. next annual City Meeting a 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 nue, the same being no longer required for the purposes of the fire departm eift I and that the moneys realized thefefronl be appropriated for the fitting up of the 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 recommendation of the Committee on Fire Department
 Your Committee further recommend the adoption by the Court of Common Council of the following resolution:
 Resolved, That the report and esti- mates of the Committee on Finance be accepted and approved; that the Clerk cause the same to be published as re- quired 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 ill this report to the next City Meeting to be held on the first Monday of June next and to recommend that a