The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-11-27
Total 70 Be Paid City For
State and County Taxes
Is Near the $425,OOO
Mark.
THIRTY MILL TAX CERTAIN
Finance Committee Expected To Meet
Friday Afternoon TO Take Up Tangle
Of Figures Little Hope Expressed
for Anything Less Than 'sSo".

Hope Of getting the mill tax for Ke-
nosha under the thirty mill levy went
to smash this morning when the mem
bers Of the Common Council got an
mixing of what the city must pay as its
share Of the state and countA tax and
this item which must be placed in the
city levy, will amout to very close to
$425,000 or levy on the city valua-
ton Of close to ten mills. INFORMALLY
the amount that the city must pay in
state and county tax is figured at
$423, 771.82. This includes the state
tax, tax for special charges, highway
tax, soldier bonus mill tax, county high
way tax, county tax, county school tax
and taxes for the relief Of the soldiers,
the blind and for mother $ pensions. It
will be certified to the city clerk prob
ably on Friday morning and it will be
on hand for the finance committee to
consider when it meets probably on
Friday afternoon. Chairman Pabst of
the finance committee, is out deer hunt,
ing but he is figuring tax roll just the
same and it is expected that he will
have the report whipped into fair shape
when he returns on Friday.
Income Tax to Help Lot.
With an income tax for the city of
close to half a million dollars there
win be some aid for the finance commit
tee but this will only take care of the
appropriations to the various city funds
and when it is applied to these funds
it will be necessary to levy taxes to
meet the demands Of bond payments
and interest, payment Of deficits in the
general fund, payments Of the large
sum for schools and continuation
schools, the library and other fixed APP
propriations. City Clerk Harrington
said this morning that he had made
some informal figures, taking the state
tax at around 100000 and that he had
figured up to twenty-eight mills with
out any provision being made for the
various city funds. He declined to
talk real figures and said that the mat
ter would have to go over to the finance
committee. It is certain that the state
and county taxswill be larger than had
been estimated by the clerk.
Must Provide for Paving.
A lot of contracts for paving and
sewers to be built in 1920 have al
ready been let and in order to meet the
payments on these contracts the city
council must provide a considerably
sized budget for the sewer and paving
committee. This will be the largest
appropriation to be made by the COM
mittee and if the demands are met the
total of it must be pretty close to the
half million dollar mark. The deficit
of the city at present is close to two
hundred thousand dollars. Another
feature of the levy is that there will
be no saloon licenses to be received
next year and that the saloon license
fund will become liability rather than
an asset. Rebates must be paid to the
saloon men after the prohibition amend
ment goes into effect in January.
There is no return Of funds expected
from the Gilbert NJ. Simmons Library
as the Library Board has rather pre-
tentious building program for next year
and it will probably have need for
every cent appropriated to it in order
TO carry out these plans.