The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-08-29

TO IATE
! BY COUNCIL
Tax Levy As Fixed BY Confer
ence Committee Will Be
. About $27o;000. . !. :.
ESTIMATE FOR SEWER
! + EXTENSION CUT IN TWO

Various Boards of City Asked for .
Levy Of $472,le1-Paving and Curb
and Gutter improvements Win Not
Be on Next Years Program-Levy
: for Street Work Unchanged. g.:
The city council in annual session
last night as a conference committee
to make the levy estimated necessary
to cover the running expenses of the
city of Virginia for: the year 1914 cut
estimates submitted by the various
city boards from $472,1o1 to figure
which, while not definitely decided,
will be approximately $270,000. e.
The city applied the knife deepest
to the estimate of the city engineer,
the item specifically lowered being
500, 900 for sewer improvements in
cluding widening Of the ditch at the
the sewer outlet, the construction Of a
publication works and new sewer con-
struction in various sections of the
city. The estimate went through at
$45, 900, just half the amount asked.
The next big cut made was $4,000
for paving and curb and gutter i'm
provements and $1,000 for a new con-
crete bridge across the narrows, be-
tween Virginia and Silver lakes. A
motion was passed that paving and
curb and gutter improvements for
next year be not considered by the
conference committee. While this
does not mean that no improvements
of that nature will be made during
the year 1914 it indicates the policy
Of the council to make any such i'm
proyenents as ara absolutely neees-
sary. AldeSnan Mattson held ont
for paving extensions On Oak street
and Mesaba avenue and voted no on
the question.
Five thousand dollars, the figure
submitted as the amount of money
necessary for the maintenance Of
storm sewers was cut to $4,000. An
item of $1,000 for lowering water
mains below the frost line was passed
as it stood as was the estimate Of
So, 1000 for street work. This figure
is the same as for the current year.
There was also passed an item Of &c.
900 for a public market building. The
first money was set aside for this
building last year, the sum being 3d.
500.
The estimate of the park board was
cut to $4,000 from $29,s5o. There is
a considerable overdraft against the
park fund as the affairs of that de-
partment of the city stand today.
The estimate of the police and fire
commission of $27,495 for the police
department and $30,350 for the fire
department was allowed to stand.
This amount of money will cover the
purchase of a new automobile truck
for the fire department, patrol wag-
on for the police department, and the
salaries of two drivers at $50 month.
There was disposition on the part
of some members of the conference
committee to question the advisabiity
of purchasing a new auto truck for
the fire department as well as the ef-
ficiency of the auto truck now in ser
vice. Chairman Coffey Of the police
and fire commission stated that the
present auto truck was not as sat
isfactory as it might be for the reason
that the engines and propelling appar'
atus with which it is equipped are not
sufficiently heavy. A new truck was
necessary, he said, to insure the get.
ting Of apparatus to all parts Of the
city under all conditions. The poliet
department will cost more to maintain
next year because Of officers addet
and increases in the salaries Of mem.
bers of heforce. -. .~.5 : :zss 4. :. -. 81
!: The library board estimate was fo1
something over $1,000. It was no1
definitely disposed of as the library
hnard wac not represented at thu