Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-07
S4,437,6O1.24IS
SUM FIXED FOR
COUNTY BUDGET
Tentative Figures Agreed Upon.
May Cut Tax Rate q IL
Per Cent.

The county tax budget for 1914 will
amount to $4,437, col "a if the tentative
figures agreed upon by the Board of
Freeholders' finance committee yes
terday afternoon are finally agreed
upon
These figures show an increase over
last years total of 1927, 544.23, but de-
spite this fact, it is expected that the
tax rate will drop to 1893 as against
.44S7 last Year. This decrease of Az
per cent. from the 1918 figures is made
possible by the fact that the county
ratables will be about $25, 100000
greater than last year. Besides, the
county will not be under the disad-
vantage ii was last year in regard
to the Prudential assessment.
Last year the county rate increased
abnormally because it had to be levied
on rataples that were $4,000, 900 less
than the actual assessments. The
city in two years had paid an excess
of about $56,000,000 to the county be-
cause of the assessment of the de-
TERED dividend fund of the Prudential
Insurance Company, which was de-
cared an illegal proceeding by the
courts.
The budget as it now stands may
be trimmed down some before 1t is
finally adopted, and a meeting for
its further consideration will be held
at the court house next Monday aft
ernoon at 8 o'clock. The apparent
increased tax levy is due to various
causes, among them being q sos 200
boost in the court house expenses,
$4,000 increase in the payroll of
county officers. $4,000 appropriation
for an audit of the county admins
tration, $4,000 for the new purchas-
ing department, provision for spend
Ing 100000 more for county bridges
and culverts, and $4,000 more on
road improvements.
Cows for Overlook.
Chairman Ryman, of the hospital
committee, after being allotted $751;
600, the same as last year, for the
maintenance of the Overlook asy-
lum. and $137, 900, an increase OF
$4,000, for Soho Isolation Hospital
received an additional $4,000 appro-
priation for purchasing cows for the
Overlook institution.
At the suggestion of Director
Evans, a special appropriation of
$4,000 was allowed for charging the
water supply plant at Overlook SO
that the institution may produce all
of it's own water. The Improvement
\ will involve the purchase of q new
set of pressure pumps to augment
those now in use, and the boring of
two six-inch wells. besides other
equipment. At the directors sugges-
ton also, $4,000 was allowed for ad-
ditional FIRE apparatus, which will
include motor power equipment.
Chairman Lacombe, of the building
committee, made a plea for a large
increase in the appropriation for pub
lie buildings over that made last year,
but the members of the committee
were unable to pin him down to a
specific sum and finally placed $4,000
for the purpose in the budget, which
is the same as for 1918. He urged
that his department would be called
upon to make many unusual improve
ments during the year and that the
amount named would not be anything
like sufficient. Director Evans re-
marked that as repairs and improve
ments cost $4,000 last year, that
much work had been done which
would not have to be looked after
this year and he could not see why
$4,000 would not be enough. Besides
he said, many of the items named by
Mr.. Lacombe would not be attended
to this year. The director pointed
out that the building committee was
really getting 100000, when the
$4,000 special appropriations for
Overlook We're considered.
Chairman Malta, of the prisons
committee, asked for $1,000 special
appropriation for operating the
manufacturing plant at the Caldwell
-penitentiary. No objection was made
to granting the amount but the ad-
visibility of placing it in a separate
account was questioned, and on mo-
ton of F'reeholder Quinn, $1,000 was
added to the allotment to the peni-
Tertiary made last week of sos, 900,
bringing the appropriation up to that
of last year.
The Court House maintenance ap-
preparation of $780, 900 provides IS, 600
extra for renting quarters in the
Kinney building for the board of tax
alton, and also for refurnishing GER
tain rooms.
Tentative Budget.
The following is the tentative
budget for 1914 as compared with
Inat OF 1919:
Tax levy Amt. Asked