New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-02-24
Judge Decides
Road Appeals
COUNTY COMMISSIONER ARE
REVERSED IN MATTER OF
HANSKA HICHWAY.
TOWN BOARD OF COURTLAND
UPHELD IN POEHLER CART
WAY ACTION.

Last Thursday evening the city
council met in special session for the
purpose OF passing on the assessments
of benefits for the paving of Minnesota
Street made by the Board of Public
Works and listening to any objections
that might be made by abutting property
owners to the confirmation of the as
sessments as proposed by the Board.
No written objections to the con-
frmation had been filed with the city
clerk one day prior to the day of hearing
as required by law and the clerk so
reported to the council. Two OBJ
jectors, however, appeared in person.
Co. Auditor Louis G. Vogel and DR.. J.
P. Graft registered a vigorous protest
against the confirmation of the assess
ments that had been made on the
ground that the assessment had been
based on frontage basis only and that
the question of the value of the property
had not received due consideration.
They contended that the property
used for business purposes would derive
greater benefits and for that reason
should have been assessed proportionate-
ly higher than the residence property
which is also included in this assessment
district. The matter was discussed
OF or ria11
changing the views Of any one who took
part in the alteration. No legal OBJ
jections having been filed, the council
upon motion voted to confirm the as
sessment as reported by the Board of
Public Works.
OF the total cost of the improvement
$26,009.96 will be assessed against the
abutting property and the balance
$11,142.93 will be borne by the city
at large. This is the expense incurred
for paving the street intersections. The
total cost of the improvement aggre-
gates the sum of $37, 152.89. There
are SO property owners who have to
make up the $26,0O9.96 assessed against
the abutting property. They have the
choice of paying for the assessment
in lump sum before March LIST or they
may avail themselves of the offer of the
city to pay it in ten equal installments
with interest on deferred payments at
the rate OF 5 per cent per annum. All
these annual payments must be made
on or before the 1st day of March of
each year. If not paid at that time,
a penalty of 10 per cent attaches and
if the same with the penalty added is
not paid by October LIST the same will
be certified to the County Auditor and
it will be added to the regular real
property taxes and must be paid at
the time, these become due and payable.
If not paid then, they will become
delinquent and the property against
which the assessment was made will
be eventually sold for taxes.
The public cemetery again received
the attention of the city council at this
meeting. The matter was discussed
at some length and it was decided to
plant trees in the spring and have the
old fence replaced by new one as soon
as this can be done.
Attention was called to the fact that
several of the consumers of electric
current had not paid their January
bills at the time of the meeting. Re-
Gently rule was made requiring the
payment of these bills before the goth
of the month and providing for the dis
continuance of the service if not paid
at that time. The delinquents were
given few days grace within which to
make payment and it was decided to
enforce the rule of payment strictly in
the future.
1t may interest the taxpayers to know
that the audit Of the city's books for
the past 8 years, from 1906 to 1914,
cost the city the sum of $4,O72.74.
Considerable of this expense was alb
solutely unnecessary and could have
been avoided if the members of the city
council had not thru ill advice secured
the services of w. C. Hebron, whose
examination of the books had not
semblance of a thorough audit and
proved absolutely worthless.
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