Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-12
WILL FIRST SUBMIT PROPOSAL,
At APPRAISERS PRICE, TO
VOTERS At ELECTION.
COUNCIL SEEKS OPINION
OF PUBLIC ON SALE
Appraisal Of Old Baptist Church Prop.
erty to Be Made by Five Appraisers
to Be Appointed by Trades and la.
Dor Assembly, MarshalItown Club,
Council and Y. M. c. A.

Voters will be given a chance at the
city election to advise the council re-
garding the proposed sale of the old
Baptist church property to the Y. NJ. C.
a. Cor a site for a new association
building. A committee of appraisers
will appraise the property soon, and If
the majority Of those who vote favor
the sale at the appraised price, the
council, will sell.
An offer, under these terms, was
/! made by the council Tuesday, and a
resolution providing for the appraise-
ment, and the submission to the voters
OF the proposed sale, was passed at a
special meeting held Tuesday night.
The proposal will be printed on sep
! arate ballot in some such wording as
! this: DO you advise selling the old
Baptist church property to the Y. NJ.
I. A. for --- (price), to erect there
on new building" The voter will
vote Yes or no. BY its resolution the
council offers to sell at the appraised
price ii the majority votes yes"
Is Advice; Not Authorization.
opinion of the voters and not a formal
authorization. Since it is not final
authority that the voters will give, City
Solicitor F. E. Northup has decided
that it is not necessary to have the
proposition prepared and ready for
submission twenty days before the
election.
There are several reason for having
the property appraised. It IS gener-
ally recognized that the property is not
worth what the city has in it, $4,000,
and the interest on that investment
which was made by former council
But the Y. NJ. c. A. building commit
tee does not feel that it would be fair
to ask the present council to assume
the responsibility of selling for less
than the city has tied up in the prop
erty. Another reason is that as the
Y. NJ. c. A. is a semi-public building,
frequently used for public gatherings
Of different kinds. that the city should
feel some interest and that the prop
erty, when intended to be improved
by q handsome building for this pur-
| pose, should not be held at the same
| figure as tho it were to be sold to an
| individual for private investment or
/ speculation. .ia.
Five Will Appraise II.
The property will be appraised by
committee Of five. In order that this
committee will represent various in
terests and bodies of voters, the coun-
Gil has arranged that they be chosen b5
those bodies themselves. One apprais-
er will be appointed by the Trades and
Labor Assembly. another by the city
council, another by the Marshalltown
Club, and another by the Y. NJ. c. A.
building committee. These four will
choose a fifth, and the appraisers will
be asked ito give a fair value of the
property, for the semi-public purpose
t intended, ard report their findings to
| the city council in writing on or be-
! fore March 90.
! The Trades and Labor Assembly ana
the Marshalltown Club were asked to-
! day to appoint their appraisers at
once. 1t is expected the names Of the
appraisers will be known in day or
two. The council will probably ask
Frank Brennecke to serve for it.
Council Offers to Sell.
After setting out the purposes LOT
which the site is intended, namely a
| emi-public building that vii! be ols-
tiuct addition to the business district
and providing for the method OF ap-
praisement and the appointment OF the
appraisers, the resolutions authorizes
the question to be referred to the Vot-
ers in the following words
BE it further resolved that the city
council does direct that said propose
be submitted and referred to the le-
yallv qualified electors Of said city FOL
approval or rejection, and II the ma
inritv vote favor such sale the mayor
and city council hereby OFFER to SCI
said old Baptist church property at thf
price agreed upon by the committee o.
APPRAISERS to the Y. VI. c. a. for the
purposes of erecting thereon new Y
7! NJ. c. A. building, and upon o:c:.!."'
that such building be erected there
i on. and the mayor and city clerk are
(! authorized to submit such proposltlo1
70 the voters at such city election.