The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-11-21
VOTE TO BUILD
new COURT HOUSE
County Board Unanimously
Votes to Appropriate
100000 for New
County Building.
SCOTT HEADS COMMITTEE
Committee Will Formulate Preliminary
Plans and Make Report to the
Board at the January Session
Start Work Next Spring.

/ Kenosha county is to have new
splendid county center. 1t will include
a county court house, a county jail and
suitable quarters for the circuit and
municipal court and work on it will be
started during the spring of 1919.
4 Provision for the new county build
ing or buildings, as the plans may work
tout, was made when the board by a
unanimous vote, passed a resolution
directing the construction of the new
buildings and appropriated hundred
thousand dollars from the general fund
of the county to provide funds for the
beginning Of the work A special
building committee with Tom Scott as
chairman, and Thomas Fleming Of the
/ town of Salem, and Richard A. DoWse
of the town of Pleasant Prairie, as as
sociate members, was named to have
entire charge of the preliminaries to
the building. This committee is di-
rected TO make its report to the board
at the January meeting.
The plans for the preliminary work
are to be worked out by the members
of the committee and it will open head
quarters and start its work at once.
lit is expected that when the board
meets in January preliminary sketches
will be ready for the consideration of
the board members and it is expected
that at this session final action will
be taken on the employment of an ar
chitect and it is possible that contracts
will be let at that meeting.
The plans for the new county center
are of course in embryo and it will be
some time before the committee will
have anything definite to report in the
matter but with the first appropria
ton for the building available just
as soon as the new tax levy is col
lected it is certain that the work
will go forward and that the new
county building will be completed with
in the next two years.
Many important questions must be
settled in connection with the propos-
led county center, but the members
of the board are hopeful that all Of
these can be ironed out before
the January session.
The fact that the board acted unani.
mously in the passage of the resolution,
gives assurance that the work will 90
forward. 1t is expected that with a
three year tenure Of office for mem
bers of the board that the present
members of the board will complete
the proposed structure.
Members of the board went into the
proposition with their open and
they were advised that the cost of
proper county center would probably be
between two hundred and fifty to three
hundrd thousand dollars. 1t is the hope
of the board that the building can be
financed without making any new tax
levies upon the people of the county
and that the entire cost may be paid
from receipts for income taxes and
| from balances which will remain in the
| treasury of the comfy. At the present
time the county has a balance Of more
than one hundred thousand dollars in
| the general fund and it is expected
/ that this viii be increased by one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars
| from income taxes collected in January
and by an equal amount from the in
come taxes collected in January of
I 1920. 1t is possible that the work Of
constructing the building can be car
ried out without delay and without. the
necessity of an issuance of bonds to
provide money to meet payments.
! It is regarded as certain that the
erection Of the building or buildings,
Twill take in the neighborhood of two
Years and with this time for construc-
tion money should be on hand to meet
all demands for payments.
The special committee in charge of
the preliminary plans will probably an
nounce IN the near future the course it
will follow in securing the preliminary
sketches for the new building.
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