Arizona republican., 1915-06-17
YEARS BUDGET
 |S APPROVED
City ColnnisSiOE TransactS Much Important Business; Discussing License Tax and Definitely Settling Widening Van Buren St.

The city commission in session yes terdav morning gave second reading to the proposed new city license ordinance and approved a city budget carrying approximately $486,000. The budget as approved is still subject to some mirDsr changes. The license ordinance will be given third reading on June 22 and present indications are that it will pass at that time with the emergency clause attached. It will become effective i'm mediately upon it's passage, taking the place of the present license ordinance which expires at that time.
 For some months the commission has been laboring in an endeaVor to pro duce a license tax ordinance that will meet the approval of merchants and others generally. In this work the city fathers have had the assistance of the Merchants and Manufacturers Asso- -s citation. The result is that the pro posed ordinance taxes only those busi- nesses which come directly under police protection and the so-called occupation tax is eliminated. All fees are pay able in advance. The ordinance pro- vides for the collection of these fees:
 Advertising agencies, $25 per quarter
 Bowling alleys, s per alley per quar- ter.
 Billiard and pool rooms, B per quar- ter per table up to five tables; addi- tionaI tables s2 per quarter.
 Clairvoyants, fortune telers, etc. s1O0 per quarter.
 Carnivals. 8 per day per tent or show
 Circuses. $1O0 per performance.
 Dog and pony shows, $15 per per formance and s per day for each side show
 Circus parades. when circus held outside the city limits. s200 per parade.
 Cigaret manufacturers, $25 per quar- ter.
 Collection agencies other than real estate rent collections. attorneys and banks. $75 per quarter.
 Detective agencies, $15 per quarter.
 HaWIers of fruits, etc, S25 per quar- ter
 Pedlers not otherwise specified, $50 per quarter.
 Pedlers of jewelry. etc. $50 per month
 Merry -go-rounds, $10 per month.
 Pawnbrokers. $50 per quarter.
 Hide and wool warehouses, $2O per quarter.
 Steam. electric or other railroads other than street railroads. $25 per quarter
 Street railways, $25 per quarter. Transient merchants. $250 per year in advance
 Theaters seating 250 or less. S1250 | per quarter: seating from 250 to 500 | $1750 per quarter: seating from 800 ! to 150, $25 per quarter: seating from ] 75O to 1000 s32.50 per quarter: seating | more than 1000, $37.5O per quarter
 Entertainments given for gain and l not by church. fraternal. school or oth- l CT religious or social purpose s25 per | entertainment
 When the question of the city budget | was brought up Commissioner Rfchey | explained that it contains provisions | for an apparent deficit of about $170.- | 900, Occasioned by reduced license tax es. He also pointed out that the ap- | parent expenses of the city had been l reduced for the ensuing year approxi- | mately $221,0OO. Even with the re- duced license fees coI1ectable under the proposed ordinance there will be re- duction in the tax rate this year The | budget did not carry with it the $5O.- oo0 item urged by Mayor George U. | Young as the starting point of a new city hall building. Mayor Young had a proposed budget amounting to S451.- 294l5. which he said would meet the expenses of the city, provide a s5O,000 city hall fund and which would not bring the tax rate this year above eighty or eighty-five cents
 The matter of the proposed widening If Van Buren street seems to have been l