Arizona republican., 1914-07-22
FIX TAX RATE
 FOR THIS YEAR
 AT ONE DOLLAR
City Commission Adopts Ordinance Required by Charter Providing Means for Raising Funds for the City

The city commission in session yesterday morning fixed by ordin ance a tax rate of one dollar upon each $1OO assessable valuation of city property sufficient to raise the amount estimated to be required in the annual budget less the amount estimated receivable from fines, li- censes and other sources of revenue. The money to be raised in this man ner is for the purpose of payment of interest upon bonded indebtedness. providing sinking funds for various bonded indebtednesses, providing a library fund, providing a cash basis fund, and providing a general fund for general municipal purposes.
 The various assessments aggregat ing one dollar in all are presented as follows:
 ID A tax of five and fourth cents, interest fund on water bonds, July l, 1914 to June 30, 1915. @ A tax of three-fou1ths of one cent, interest fund on Roosevelt road bonds, same period. (3) A tax of two and one half cents interest fund on funding bonds of 1909.
 (4) A tax of six cents interest fund on sewer bonds.
 (5) A tax of three cents interest fund on municipal improvement bonds of 1914.
 (6) A tax of two and one-fourth cents interest fund upon funding bonds of 1914.
 @ A tax of two and one-half cents to provide sinking fund for re- demption at maturity of funding bonds of 1909.
 (S) A tax of two and three-fourths cents to provide a sinking fund for the demeption at maturity of nun icipal improvement and funding bonds of 1914.
 (9) A tax of two and one-half cents for the purpose of providing a 1 fund for the establishment and main- | tenance in the city of free public l libraries and reading rooms, for the purchase of books. journals and pub lications and the maintenance of 1 buildings used and occupied for li- brary purposes.
 0O) A tax of two and one-half
 cents to provide a cash basis fund as required by the charter. l CID A tax of seventy cents to pro-
 vide a general fund to defray gen
 eral municipal and administrative 1 expenses for the fiscal year 1 The ordinance embodying these de-
 tails was adopted unanimously with
 the emergency clause attached there
 by exempting it from the referen- !, dum
 l There was a ripple of interest when at the conclusion of the reading of the minutes of the previous meet ing in which it appeared that Mayor George T.. Young at the previous meeting had called attention to the filling by City Auditor Cooper of . detailed report of the affairs of the city in connection with his regular executive of the city he wished nc such burdens to be placed upon tho office of any department head with
 out such work having first been au
 thoriZed by the commission in opel Imeeting.
 Said MT. Woods; MT. Mayor
 what did you mean when you re
 quested the manager not to hothe
 any of the city employees for infor nation? Did you mean that tn
 manager is over the auditor"
 q mean" replied the mayor, ''tha each commissioner and the mayo should go to the manager for infor nation.
 Do you mean to tell me that tn manager has jurisdiction over the au ditor?" continued Woods. Has tn
 commission not the right to ask tn
 auditor for his report?'
 "The auditor is an employe of tn
 city" said MT. Young, and tn mayor nor the commissioners hay , any right under the charter to bothe (Continued on Page Fiye)