The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-06-11
City Budget Insufficient to
Meet Needs During This
Rapid Period OF Growth
(Editorial)


The condition of the city finances at the present time
giving Mayor W. R. Roberts much concern Not that cona
changed until the beginning of the next fiscal year
for they The city without funds and many OF the
citizens not realizing this fact bring to the mayor daily com
plants as to why improvements and REPAIRS greay heeue"
Based on the last in the city the prevailing
did render sufficient with which to conduct he
d % W. - + ar % TS vear the tax will be again levied
on years and if did not give sufficient rev
year conduct the cys affairs may easily
be that perhaps the hardest in the c affairs Is the
The hundreds thousands of dollars of improvements
or another Year, Yet all these
buildings the increased population all call for additional
upon the part of the city necessarily
added expense and there will be with which to
The mayor is of the opinion that coming fiscal year.
once passed. city will be in excellent shape. The acquire
ment of adequate water supply he believes is going to
mark more rapid growth of the city, to be about
particularly the increased number of industrial enterprises
and their accompanying influx of people -
Many additions which hundreds of splendd homes
will been erected will into the city and add to
assessabe values The wealth in personal property Is
growing rapidly and will yield its part Beginning year
from now the could be brighter but to get by the
coming year the utmost economy will be necessary.
Mayor Roberts has, the beginning of this year at
ery meeting admonished them that they
expenses in every department When efforts were
made cut hard to see where cut could be
made single empoye could be dispensed WITH yet
lin the departments reductions of the force have been made
and with the result that and water mains are not
extended repaired streets cannot be mendedas the city IS
without with which either men or material
This will large extent be remedied after the end OF
the year. and the arising from the bond issue will
the sanitary and the water mains but t to
will added expense of maintenance and the per
other work called for by the extension and growth
of the city
To build city, money is required money and more
money! while the burden of taxation is with which
people always have to if is not an increasing one
be growth in city The mayor the commis.
the city employees going without their salaries
and wages Merchants complain that city employees cannot
pay their grocery bills The they will be paid and
the will get their but ne unable to aid
them until the money is available
The police department large as was when the
city had only 10000 inhabitants and the fire is
comparatively the the office expense has not been m
creased but the demand for work most urgent IN
the street, water, and sanitary departments
Construction ncinerating plant going to save much
the city in the way handling the garbage All these items
expense will the growth of the city and
and more money will needed and the city cannot
how its citizens be- unless the city
ernment does its share and cannot do this without