Arizona republican., 1915-07-15
BUDGET PASSED
 | BY COMMISSION
Formal Determination of the Tax Rate for Year Other Business Transact cd in Brief Afternoon Session

The city is ready for the new fisca year At d meeting of the commis- sion yesterday afternoon the budget ! was passed without a dissenting voice.
 As adopted il is in form and amount the same as when it was printed by The Republican d few days ago. Ii
 was thought possible that some changes would be suggested and there had been some expression of doubt as to whether it could be passed at this time. But no question as to that was raised in the meeting and no sug- gestion Of a change was offered. Immediately after the ordinance was passed. fixing the tax rate for the year As had been announced the rate is S5 cents on each S100 of valu-
 ation. It is made up of the follow
 ing levies for the various funds: Interest on waterworks bonds. 5A
 cents interest on Roosevelt road
 bonds. }. cents. interest on funding
 bonds of 1909 21a cents; interest on
 sewer bonds cents; interest on municipal improvement bonds. 1914, 3
 cents. interest on funding bonds, 1914,
 2A cents: sinking fund. bonds 1909,
 ? cents. sinking fund municipal i'm
 provement bonds. 1914 2A cents: fund
 for establishing public library and
 reading room. 21z cents: cash basis fund. 21a cents: general fund. 55 cents.
 Commissioner Richey brought up the
 matter of a man who was being pen alized because he had complied with city regulation which had fallen into temporary disuse. He is Ellis Thompson. who lives outside the city limits but along with many others so situated. is served with city water. IL
 had been ordered that when such ser vice is rendered the value of the service shall be determined by water meters. MT. Thompson was one of the few who put in a meter. and his bills ran monthly from ss 10 S10 while those Of his neighbors who pay the regular monthly rate were less than ] one-fourth as much.
 City Manager Craig said that the | order for the installation of meters was made before he assumed office It appeared that there were not
 enough but that some are expected soon. It was decided on the sug gestion of Commissioner Cope to find out what is the matter with Thomp- sons meter for no man can afford to pay such water rates to keep up a | lawn.
 A protest was before the commis- sion from property owners in the west end of the city against the extension of the pavement on Monroe and Ad ans streets But that was allowed to | go over until the next meeting since | the time when protests must be filed would not expire until midnight of ] last night Therefore. there may be others
 The commission directed the es- tablishing of stalls for market gar deners along the city hall and court house plazas They will be stalls only constructively. but will consist of market spaces on the curbing, each space being assigned to certain gardener who will pay the city a small rental This arrangement ls
 to be made at the suggestion of the
 gardeners. who said that they would prefer to pay for a definite space that they would know would be at
 their disposal when they came to claim it. At the place where their stands now are the gardeners first on the ground take the places that please them best.
 The city auditor and Commissioner MacRean were appointed a committed to consider the matter of concentra ' ton of the city funds. a subject that was brought before the commission on the recommendation of the city man. ager several weeks ago.