Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-17
SUMMIT BUDGET
/ TOTALS S262,O71
$13.537 Increase Over Last
Year Will Result in Slight
ly Higher Tax Rate.
Especial to the Evening start

SUMMIT. June 1.-THE budget OF
Appropriations as passed at last
nights meeting of Common Council
totals 262,071.10. Last years budget
amounted to S24s, 53S.s6, being an in
crease this year of s15.5S7,3s Even
with this increase, the raise in Vaiu-
ations, which last year amounted TO
S11. 464. 461 and which it is expected
viii be considerably over sl2,OOo,ooo,
will result in only an increase Of per
haps but three points i'll this year
tax rate. The rate last year was ~ lO
per 500 valuation The budget TINS
year is made up of s144. 1873 for city
appropriations. S36 1913 50 for schools,
$50. 900 for state and county tax and
81 600 for contingencies. The city ac-
count is decreased this year S6,ooo
and the appropriation for the care OF
the public park $3.50. An increase OF
$3.50 is made in the appropriation for
6re department, 5000 for poor, 5000 for
library, S100 for street lighting,
Sl,733.64 in bond interest and Ss,3sbO4
IN the citys proportion of the cost
Of public improvements due to the
Elm street sewer and West Summit
sewer construction. The appfo-
Priations are as follows;
Itemized Appropriations.
CITY. 1880: streets, 81, 100: police,
So. 500; fire, 5000; health, s3250; poor,
1000; water. $500; light $1,000;
library, 81, 444.9s; sewers, $500: street
sprinkling $3.50; public park, $S51;
Joint trunk sewer assessments, Sl,U0U;
eity's proportion public improve
nlents s11.OSS.72; interest on bonds,
s2s. SO; sinking fund bonds. SlI030:
payment of bonds, $1,000; schools.
S6,919.6O; State and county tax $780,
600; contingent. $1,000.
For months the members Of council
have wrestled with the budget and
with the result that appropriations
We're slashed in every department
where possible. The prediction has
Seen frequently published that the
tax rate this year would reach So,
but the councilmen We're determined
that the rate should be held to a
trifling increase over last year.
Mayor Francis II. Bergen took an
other fall out of the members of the
police department and the Patrol
mems Benevolent Association. when
he caused a new police rule to be
adopted by council last night which
puts an end to the annual ball of the
Zeal bluecoats, from which they de-
rived several hundred dollars each
year, and which went into the treas
hry of the local branch of the 2.
Il. \.
Each year there have been many
complaints from business men and
others against the practise of the
bluecoats in mailing tickets for their
annual ball with an invitation to re-
nit 81 each for the same. The bust
ness men complained that the practise
was little short of a hold-up, Tor they
eontended if they didn't contribute
for the ball tickets they felt as if
their places of business would not
receive watchful attention. Another
police rule adopted last night pro-
hibits the police from giving public
expression to their personal views on
public matters and is believed to have
resulted from the unresTained COM
ment of the cops" on the recent ac-
tion of Mayor Bergen in connection
with the dismissal of two policemen
because of their part in the police
kidnapping case.
New Police Rules.
The new rules are:
"Nomember OF the police force shall
be permitted TO give public expression
TO his personal. political or partisan
opinions which may be prejudicial to
good order and discipline of the po-
ice force, or do or assist in any act
that is prejudicial TO good order or
discipline of the police force in any
way
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