Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-14
PAVING TAN FUND.
Street and Sewer Director Gle inns They
Are Handicapped Without Ii.

Below is given the text Of resolution
| adopted hv the Directors OF the Street
| and Sewer Department in regard 70 the
money collected from the abuttlng
| paving tax law II was submitted 10 City
| Council at its meeting Thursday and by
| Council referred 10 the finance committee.
| While the department app ears TO have
| been led 10 believe some months ago, that
! it would receive this money, subsequent
| developments indicate that II may not
get anv of it until after the validity of
| the law under which il was collected has
been established in court. Then again. if
the law should be held invalid, the money
would be returned 10 the persons who
paid it and the department would get
nothing though SEC. 900 appears 10 have
been counted upon for the tax when the
appropriations for this year were fixed.
The result is department officials say, that
If Council continues to hold the money, as
seems to be the intention, the department
Is likely to he badly in need of funds
before its fiscal year is up. Following is
the text of the resolution:
Whereas. the Board of Directors OF
the Street and Sewer Department, III
compliance with law presented to The
Council April a 1918, an estimate Of
cost Of operation for the year beginning
July !, 1918, aggregatine 1908, $4,000, and
Whereas. The Council on May 81,
1918. appropriated to the said Street and
Sewer Department s1S4, 1880, this
amount being $50, ,S25 less than the ap-
preparation for the preceding year, when
labor and materials were approximately
40 per cent less, and
Whereas, The local press IN published
reports of the session of said Council
recited as follows.
Following the reading of the report Of
the finance committee OF Council and the
reading of the ordinance providing for
the budget for the coming year 1y
Councilman James W. Robertson,
dressing Council stated that he desired
to make few remarks. He continued by
saving: You will notice that some changes
have been made in the budget as passed,
The first being that Of the allowance for
the Street and Sewer Department
This department last year received
S225, 900, but this year they are allowed
S1S4.l7J, which may seem TO be a de-
crease, but 1T is an increase instead Of
Sl9, 900 The department tins year will
receive about $50 900 from the raz
collected under the abutting paying
law and
Whereas, as recited above Tne Counci
evidently intended that 500 600 90 in ad-
dition TO the slS4, 175 appropriated, would
accrue to theJStreet and Sewer Department,
and
Whereas, a large proportion Of said
estimated amount has been paid into the
treasury Of the city Of Wilmington, and
Whereas, the said Street and Sewer De
partment has Deen advised BY several
memoers Of The Council that iC is the
purpose Of the Council to retain such
money until uch time as the law may be
tested and declared valid, or until il may |
have been amended in accordance with |
views as neld by the Council; and
Whereas, the sum appropriated To the |
said Street and Sewer Department Is !
to meet its obligations even |
with its greatly curtailed operation, and |
Whereas, deficit is accruing each month |
Tht refore ne il resolved by the Board Of |
Directors Of the Street and Sewer De |
Dartment that The Council be requested |
10 take action 10 appropriate to said de-
partment funds equivalent 10 those |
that Inc department may be |
placed on the financial status as com
BY The Council when it passed |
The annual budget May 81, 1918