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Instructions
Issued To The County Budget
Commissioners
Call For Meetings In Each
Taxing District

County Auditor Walter NJ Riley has
received copies of instructions to be
handed to each OF the members Of the
tax budget commissioners, as follows:
INSTRUCTIONS RELATING TO
THE LEVY OF TAXES
To the Budget Commissioners:
The Tax Commission of Ohio pur-
suant to the authority in it vested by
Section 81 of the act Of May 10 1913,
103 o. L. 500, therin denominated
section 5624-7 General Code of Ohio,
hereby issues to the budget COM
missions in the state the following
instructions:
In adjusting the various amounts
to be raised in the several taxing dis
tricts In the county, so that the total
amount thereof shall not exceed in
any such district the amount author
lied to be levied therein, and for the
purpose of eliminating errors and un-
necessary items from the budgets of
taxing districts wherein the aggrc-
gate does not exceed the amount au-
thorized to be levied therein, the
budget commission shall proceed in
the following manner:
Public meetings shall be held ins
each taxing district at centrally To-
Gated school houses or other public
buildings which are available without
expense. The county auditor shall
cause reasonable notice thereof to be
published in such manner as he may
deem best, with view to giving the
taxpayers Of the several districts an
opportunity to attend such meeting.
At least one member of the budget
commission shall attend each meet
ing, and the taxing authorities of the
district shall be notified to attend.
The commissioner or commissioners
in attendance shall acquaint the tax
payers present with the various
amounts requested by the taxing
authorities entitled to levy within
such district for their needs for the
incoming year, together with the
amount levied for the same purpose
for the previous year, the estimated
balance on hand at the beginning of
the incoming year, the estimated
value of taxable property in the dis
trict, and the probable increase or
decrease in the aggregate rate by
reason of the increase or decrease
in the estimates or budgets sub
mitted by the taxing authorities.
An opportunity shall be afforded to
support of or objection to, any item in
any budget, affecting the taxing dis
trict, excepting the county budget,
and the taxing authorities of the dis
trict shall likewise be heard thereon
at their own request. In taxing dis
tricts the aggregate of whose budgets
does not exceed the amount authoriz-
ed to be levied therein, If errors or
unnecessary items are disclosed, the
commissioner or commissioners pres
ent shall require corrected estimates
or budgets to be filed with the COM
mission by the taxing authority which
filed the original estimate or budget
containing erroneous or unnecessary
items.
The budget commissioners shall al
so hold public meeting at the coun-
| ty seat, upon notice given to the tax
payers of the county generally by the
county auditor in the manner herein
before prescribed, at which hearing
shall be had as hereinbefore provided
with respect to the several items in
the county budget
In so far practicable, the meet
| ings of the budget commission, at
which the amounts to be levied are
finally fixed, shall be open to the pub
lie, but no hearing shall be held
thereat.
Compliance with this order will be
exacted under sanction of the pro
ceedings referred to in section 56 OF
! the act above cited.
Very respectfully,
The Tax Commission of Ohio,
By A. V. Abernethy, Secretary
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