The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1917-01-16
OFFICIAL STATEMENT
OF COMMISSIONERS
REGARDING PRINTING


Hon. City Commissioners
Lakeland, Florida.
Gentlemen:
|, You are hereby directed to meet
lat 700 D. m. this evening in Can
Session to consider Committee WORK
for 1917, and to check the City Rec
ords as to the amounts paid out Tor
civ printing in 1915 and 1916.
JOHN F. cox.
/ Mavor and Chairman of the Board.
Lakeland, Fla, Jan. Is, 1917.
Pursuant to the above Call which
was read Messrs. Cox. Weeks. Keen
and Flanagan met in Call Session.
Committee work for 1917 was dis
Lcussed, but no action thereon was
taken.
The records for printing in 1915 and
1916 were checked, and statement OF
Treasurer Armstead published Jan. Is
was found to be correct as to amounts
paid out in those years respectivetu.
The following statement was or
dered published to show what was
found: After investigating the rec
ords with reference to printing done
by the authority of the City Commits
sioners, we find, That during the year
1916 there was paid to Morning Star
for printing done during the year 1916
the sum of $791.S4 as against the sum
of 1851 so paid to NJ. F. Hetherington
in 1915 for printing done during 1915.
We further find that a portion OF
amount paid in 1915 was for work
done some time prior; and that a por-
ton paid in 1916 was for work done
by order of the Charter Board and
not for the City Commissioners, the
bills not being certified to them until
after said printing had been done;
and the Charter Board had exclusive
power to designate paper for printing
same. We further find that the state
ment made by Treasurer Armistead as
published Jan. 18th and 14th as to
amounts paid out in 1915 and 1916 for
printing is correct, except as to a
typographical error covering warrant
No. 49, the total being correct and
remaining the same; that the designa.
tion of the Morning Star as the Off
cial Organ of the City of Lakeland in
1916 was made by the City Commits.
sioners and not by any individual
member. After adding $757S for De
cember 1916 printing which has not
yet been paid, the printing done fol-
the City by the Morning Star in 1915
amounts to $S77.62 exclusive of the
printing done for Charter Board. We
lare publishing letter from the Cham
Der of Commerce with reference tc
warrant No. 316 for $4,000 which ex
plains the purpose of said warrant
We further find that $2S0.20 was paiG
Mr.. Hetherington during the year 1915
for 1915 work, same being portion OF
amount in warrant No. ISL, and $12.0(
was paid by warrant No. $50 to Morn
ing Star for work done in 1915, ant
s24.4O was paid Mr.. Hetherington for
1916 printing, making the following
grand totals for printing done in the
years set forth:
Year 1915, s962.19; Year 191t
10000 exclusive of amount paid fol
Charter Board as above explained.
I. Respectfully,
f. C. FLANAGAN,
C. NJ. WEEKS,
]. NJ. KEEN,
Commissioners.
Letter from Lakeland Chamber O
, Commerce under date of June 81. 1916
, was ordered published with abov,
/ statement.
: On motion the Commission ad
: journed.
JOHN F. cox,
Attest: Chairman.
H. L. Swatts. City Clerk.
: To the Commissioners of the City o
Lakeland.
Gentlemen:
am requested by the Directors O
= the Lakeland Chamber of Commerce
> to call your kind attention to an ablj
cation which has been ordered pai,
Z by your honorable body, but paymen
not yet received; via, sum O
$4,000 being the city's share of 90
three months subscriptions to tn
T Lakeland News sent out and paid 70
by this Office in pursuance of an a,
r arrangement by which such Obligation
s was made.
The advertising fund of the Cham
per badly needs this money an