Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-30
NINE MILL RATE FOR
CITY IS SUFFICIENT
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was provided for the stenographer in
that department.
In the city sealer's department $500
is appropriated for the lifting up Oh
city scales in three markethouses.
For the department of tax revision
and appeals $500 is set aside Tor
much needed additional assistant city
assessor. In the miscellaneous depart
ment council this year was able TO cut
out the sinking fund appropriation on
the second and third public improve
ment loans, approXimatlng more lhan
$4,000 because the 1915 fund required
by law has been included in the bud
get of last year.
In the department of streets and
public improvements the $1,000
which the city will eXpend for the re-
pairing of asphalt streets at the eN-
piration of Contractor Charles Walt
crs' contract is provided for; $4,000
more for sweeping streets is appro-
priated, $4,000 for the twelVe-month
wear of 1916 being asked for against
S47. 900 provided for the nine-month
year of 1914; $1,000 is provided Tor
erecting new concrete posts on the
Mulberry street viaduct; an additional
thousand is appropriated for inspec-
tors. and S2.500 is set aside Tor the
purchase of an automobile truck to he
used in connection with the operation
of the new city repair plant
Extension of Cluster Lights
In the lighting department provision
is made for sixteen new cluster light
standards for the proposed extension
of the city in North Second and in
Locust streets and fifteen additional
arc lights In the fire department
during the coming year the Increase
in salaries of drivers authorized dur
ing this year will be continued and
$500 is set aside for the erection
of a new house for the Royal f1re
Company. In the bureau of parks ST.
900 is provided for the newly created
position of city forester with an addi-
tional 500 for tools, etc. Ample pro-
vision for the operation of the city
planning commission, appointed early
in this year, is made to the extent of
$2,5S0.
Nine Mills Ample
All these changes and improvements
can readily be made within the nine
mill levin the opinion of all the
city commissioners with the possible
exception, perhaps. of Mayor Royal.
The Mayor vigorously protested
against the reduction of the mill rate
from nine and half to nine at yes
tcrdaYs session of council. The
change was not attributable to the
efficient management under commits
sion form of government, he said.
In support of his contention he
compared the increases in the various
departments as shown by the appro-
pration measures of 1913 and 1915.
All told he said the additional expense
totaled more than $4,000.
Commissioners Bowman. Lynch and
Taylor, however, promptly called the
chief executives attention to the fact
that figures he quoted from the 1913.
ordinance were sums that had been
appropriated by original ordinances
and did not include the additional
funds that had to be provided from
time to time during the last year of
the city's government under the bi-
cameral system to make up deficits.
"Why you remember, Mayor" point
ed out Mr.. Taylor, that early this
year We had to pass one ordinance
alone appropriating something like
$4,000 to pay off deficiencies in several
of the partments-deticits that lay
over from 1913
"But ] can't see where you're 60
ing to get your revenue for the budget