The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-07-27
XENOSHA COUNTY GETS $500
No Allotment Will be Made However
if the Towns do not Agree to Make
the. Appropriations Necessary to Sc
cure State Aid.

The Wisconsin State Highway Com
mission is sending out letters to the
officials Of all the towns in Kenosha
county advising them that immediate
action will be necessary if any of the
fund from the state for the improve
ment of highways is to be expended
in Kenosha county during the coming
year. The fund is to be apportioned
only to counties where the town boards
show desire to join with the state
in improving the highways and where
no appropriations are made by the
towns the state declines to allUU any
part Of the state fund.
The time is which the towns may
act is decidedly short. The law is SO
drawn as TO provide that state aid is
available only to such towns as have
voted to give aid to the roads i'm
provcment prior to September l of this
year If the towns have not any APP
preparation for road building it will
be possible for special meetings to be
called and appropriations made and UNI
der this procedure the state commits
sion will Immediately allot state aid.
1T is thought that a large number of
towns in the county will avail them
selves of the provisions of the law. AT
the meeting of the county board ia No
yomber, strong effort will be made
to secure Che election of a highway
commissioner in the manner provided by
the law and he viii have charge of
tho road work in the entire county. 1t
win also be necessary for the county
board to adopt some plan for improve
ment of highways which can be follow
ed by the different towns in the county
In the past year the amount of money
appropriated for highway work in Ike.
nosha county was decidedly small, but
with a prospect of state aid it is
thought that the town boards of every
town in the county will act in the ma
ter and it is possible that special
meeting of the county board will be
called for late in August to consider
the adoption of the new law and the
plans for Kenosha county working un-
der it.
$350,000 will be available for distri
button among the different counties of
the state and the commission has al
ready appropriated this amount to the
various counties. In case any of the
counties shall not make provision to
meet the state half way in the effort
to improve The roads the amount allotted
to such county will be placed back into
the general fund and apportioned to
the counties which have acted in the
matter, Under the apportionment the
counties in the first district are to re-
coive the following amounts: Kenosha,
$500; Racine, 1885; Rock, $1O,185;
Walworth, $G,755; Green, $500; La.
fayette, $5,0O5,
The amount allotted to the various
counties is based on the percentage of
the general tax paid by the counties in
1911 and for this reason it will be seen
that Kenosha is getting some benefit
from the high assessments of the past
years.
The road law is not understood by
the town officials of this county and
efforts are being made to have a gen.
eral meeting of these officials at which
the law can be explained either by one
Of the members of the state highway
commission or one of the Kenosba
county members of the legislature
which passed the law.
It is regarded as certain that Reno
sha county viii not let the amount OF
money apportioned for this county re-
vert to the general road fund and that
early provision will be made to secure
this for the Improvement of the roads
in the county.