Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-13
COUNCIL TO HAVE
FUNDS FOR NEEDS
OF CITY IN JUNE
Treasury Will Be SweIIed by
100000 Not Heretofore
Counted On.

OF the city income lof d Sduiy HSeu-
ed English Commercial Girls High
School, additional park extension,
and, perhaps, add a new pump to the
waterworks station, and still not dis
turb any Of the other apportionments
made in January Of this year.
This happy situation arises from
the fact that in several directions the
anticipations of the Council in max
ing the January appointments have
been greatly exceeded in the subse-
quent returns, and as a consequence
there will come into the city treas
ury in June approximately 100000
more than was expected.
Fifty thousand dollars would pro-
vide the English Commercial Girls
High School, $25, 600 additional park
extension work would please thou
sands Of citizens greatly, and the en-
tire remainder might be expended at
the waterwor5s pumping station, or
a part Of the remainder might be
spent there and the balance on the
streets.
Relief for Schools.
The financing Of the first named
Items certainly would relieve a most
deplorable school condition on the
one hand and provide urgently nee
essary park extension on the other.
The finance committee Of the Cen
eral Council anticipated in making
up it's January apportionments an in
crease OF $4,000, 900 in tax assessments
over last year. The tax assessors an
nounce that this increase will run far
ahead Of anticipation, however, foot
ing up not less than S16,00O,000.
At a tax rate Of .Ol25. this increase
will net an additional revenue to the
city Of 100000 This unanticipated
money will be available, Of course,
In June.
No locker club licenses were in
cluded in the January budget, but the
$500 license subsequently charged
against each club will add another
$4,000 to the city's funds in hand in
June.
Water Receipts Grow.
The finance committee anticipated
an $4,000 increase in water receipts,
but General Manager zode Smith
says the increase will go to $4,000.
To the City Marshal was turned
over in January a little more than
500. 600 in uncollected city bills and
accounts Of one sort and another.
These uncollected bills were ignored
in making up the January budget.
The Marshal has collected $4,000 OF
these accounts.
A large amount in uncollected bills
is carried over annually, and collec-
tions, in way, have balanced the
bills carried over. but heretofore it
has been the practice of finance COM
mittees to apportion these uncollected
bills as IL they constituted an avail
able asset. As this was not done this
year, the amount coming in from
them since further swells the June
treasury receipts ready for distribu-
ton.
As a matter of cold fact, therefore,
the City Council of Atlanta will have
ready for apportionment in June not
less than 100000, which was not an
ticipated in January, and which has
not yet been publicly scheduled for
specific apportionment.
Girls Hiuh School Needed.
Unquestionably tn demand for a
new building for the English Com
mercial High School is the most
urgent matter that may be brought
TO the Councils attention for adjust
ment in June. There is no one thing
the Council could do with this I'M
anticipated money that would meet
with more general appreciation
throughout the city than TO satisfy
Immediately and in full this crying
need.
The girls who attend this school
are among the very brightest and
most worthy in Atlanta. The com
mercial branch Of Atlanta's public
school system, as it touches the fe-
males. is centered in this school That
il should be housed satisfactorily,
and that it is not now so housed, are
two facts universally admitted in the
city. \ $500. 600 building would relieve
this situation, and there are very
many citizens who think the money
surely should be forthcoming from
the unanticipated June receipts.
The park extension, the street
work. and the pumping station en-
largements are other matters that
Council must get to soon. if not in
June. And even if the $4,000 is
given 10 the English Commercial
Girls High School there sull viii re-
main a handsome overplus which
might be applied 10 the other things.
ATLANTAN'S BROTHER DIES.
MACON. GA. April TT. /. M
Kay. Sr., a railroad employee. died
here to-day at the age Of 81. His sis
ter. Mrs. n. A. Ahearn. lives in Az
lanta.
"TRE OLD RELlABLEs