The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-03-27
GOV. CLEMENTS MESSAGE
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proper. think the salary of tn
governor is too small Now, l an
not asking you to increase mine;
do not care anything about it, still
! it is not a proper thing for the stat,
to elect man governor of the STATE
and not give him salary which il
enough so that he can maintain The
| dignity of the office without calline
upon his private purse.
The next item covers the specia
appropriation recommended by the
| budget committee. That amounts to
100000. Of that amount S60O,OOt
is the money that we. must provide to
match the Federal aid for highways.
This item of 100000, as you will
see by the budget report, is made up
in detail of many small bills now
pending, some. of them not altogether
small either, but they are itemized
on page six of the budget report.
Then come the military notes OF
$508,000. These notes are now
floating on the market and must be
taken up by the state, and the pro-
position is to issue a million and a
half of bonds to take up these notes,
to defray the expenses of any military
history that you may care to pro-
vide for, and to pay the returned
soldiers,-the drafted men-the same
amount Of pay that the enlisted men
have had.
Then come the bills that are now
in process in the house and in the
senate. These appropriation bills
amount to $115,000 at the present
time. These are undetermined yet.
Then come the appropriations
which were referred to in the budget
and not yet actually provided for,
viz: the Vail school, the Randolph
school, weights and measures, the
district health officers bill which you
have lately passed and the barge ter
minal at Burlington.
The Vail school takes $4,000
The Randolph school takes 10000
Weights and Measures 10000
District Health Officer 10000
Barge Terminal $4,000
making a total for the two years.
for the bienniun-of $200,500.
The general revenue which is esti-
mated by tibet reasurer is $3,711,-
900; the military bonds, $1,500,000,
and that would leave US to provide
for a state tax of at least 30c on the
dollar. Thirty cents on the dollar
produces $1,548,849.
Now if that were done, if we issue
the bonds and tax ourselves zoe on
the dollar of the grand list, we should
still have deficit in two years from
now, of probably 100000. That will
not be deficit in one way we shall
not be owing that much money. 1t
will be what is called paper deficit
we will have that always for appro-
priations that are not taken up"
"Now I want to call your attention
to what the soc on the dollar of the
grand list means. I have taken the
grand list of the towns in the state
and have figured soc on the dollar of
those towns and have applied it to
some towns which are pretty well fix
ed and some not over strong. Take
the Goshen grand list $1,000 tax of
soc on the dollar of the grand list
for two years makes the tax levy of
that town payable to the state, $500.
That town now has a town tax of
S3..O5 on the grand list, and it seems
to me as if they increase that 10c a
year on the grand list for the next
two years it would be about all
Goshen will want to do. Take the
town of Middlbury, the grand list IS
S23, 780, and tn ia would be $14,268.
The present tax rate in Middlebury
is S1.85, and $14,268 is the amount
that Middlebury will have to pay
into the state treasury on state tax
of 3Oc Searsburg would pay $7O1.
Readsboro $4,636, Danville, $6,208,
Ryegate $6,526, Hinesburg 1886, and
son on. All you have to do to know
how much of this tax you have to
pay is to figure 80 per cent. of your
grand list, which will be what you
will personally pay into the state
treasury in the next two years."
ne main 1CemS winch MAKE up
our state expenses are the Board of
Education, the administration of JUS
tice, highways and state instit o ions.
The board Of education handles $685.
600 for the two year period, but add
ed to that, for the same general pur-
pose, should be the amounts given to
the institutions in the state which are
known as institutions of higher edu-
cation, and the agricultural schools.
The institutions of higher education
receiving money in this way are:
University of Vermont
For needy students 1900