Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-11
CHARTER REFORM
OBSTRUCTION
DENOUNCED
Councils Action FIayed by the
Mayor as Continuation of
Petty Politics.
Continued From Page One.

The cards for the meeting by signinj
he resolution:
Nutting, Spratling. Maddox, Van
Dyke, Greer, Sisson, Baskin. Hal
Thomson, Ashley, Smith, Waite, Ma
son, Shepard and Wardlaw.
Here Is the Resolution.
The resolution in part follows:
!. That the amendments proposed
70 the charter Of the city of At
lanta Sc, out in the form Of re-
yised charter and herewith filed, be
accepted by this body as proper
amendments to the presnt charter
and be transmitted by the clerk of
council to the senators from the
Thirty-fourth and Thirty fifth dis
tracts and to the representatives.
from Fulton and DeKalb counties,
in the general assembly of Georgia.
with the request that they have
same passed at the next meeting
of the general assembly to be held
in 1913.
Said proposed revision provides
for d representative government for
this city and eliminates certain OBJ
solete laws and unnecessary pro
visions and presents a complete
and finished charter from begin
ming to end, and thus answers some
criticisms that the old charter has
been patched from time to time.
Furthermore, said proposed re-
vised charter undertakes to i'm
prove upon some of the provisions
Of the old charter. as follows:
Street Repair Board.
(a) The sanitary tax of SO per
lot is abolished. This seems to be
relic of village days, to be re-
moved as soon as the growth of the
city permits, and that time has now
arrived, and said tax should be
eliminated.
Oh The repai" and construction
of streets, sewers and bridges are
put under a new board called the
board Of public works, which board
is along the lines of such boards
as the board of education, board of
health, etc, The citizens from each
ward are given representation on
nis hoard and q bea,iro 10 DC
s,,red an an,, and oil connlai,+e
that they may desire to make as
we'll as on all protests against pro-
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tbe hest idea Of the hoard of npb-
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