Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-29
SeIectnen Call for 10 Mill Town Tax

A town tax of 10 mills will be asked for by the selectmen at the coming town meeting which with 10 1-4 mills to be ask ed for by the school board will make a total town tax of 20 1-4 mills. Last year the selectmen asked for ' mill town tax and the school board
 asked for 1-4 mills, but when the ad- journed annual town meeting in March voted the town tax rate it was F 1-4 mills.
 l , All bills of the town have been paid | for the past year and the annual report l prepared by the selectmen, Casper K. l Bailey, Charles P. Bushnell and Patrick l T. Connell, shows cash balance on | hand of S16,567.54. This balance. how ever, is only apparent. as there are sew | eral drafts to be made against it and when these are paid there will be a deficit | of $1,751.46. Included in the sums to l be drawn against the cash balance are | $7,6O0 for the bumper for the Yantic steam fire engine company, $500 for La l fayette street improvement and S3,225 for 1 state highways, as we'll as the money
 received from licenses that will probably I have to be repaid to the county com | missioners.
 Had it not been for the sum of $s,334 extra for school teachers salaries which the selectmen were called to pay over to | closed with a balance on hand of Ss,5s2- 54.
 The selectnaen have prepared their re port as follows:
 Your board of selectmen submit tht following as a short account of tht
 towns affairs for the past year together
 with an estimate of the receipts ant
 expenses for the year to come and thu
 amount of tax, which will be necessar!
 to defray the town expenses.
 i Considerable difficulty has been ex perenced during the past year in ob
 taining the necessary help and supplie to keep the town highways in proper re pair but the board considers that il
 view of all the circumstances and tn unavoidable increase in cost that thu highways have been kept and are nov in reasonably good condition. The roa l leading from Taftville to the corner i , Norwich Town near the buildings of tn ] Sheltering Arms has been taken over b :. the state highway department, who t will hereafter care for the same and as s sume three quarters of the eXpens = therefor. A large amount of work ha
 been necessary on the bridges durin v the past year. The bridges at Sturte 5. want avenue and at Eighth street 5 Greeneville have been completed and a n necessary repairs made to the other . During the coming year it will be nece 2 sary to replace one of the West Mai
 street bridges. This work has bee
 contracted for and the steel necessar
 for the purpose is now on the road.
 is hoped that this work can be finishe
 at an early date and without much il }. terruption to traffic. The great il Il crease in transportation by heavy mot le trucks over our highways and bridg l. necessarily causes an increasing e l. pense for their upkeep or renewal
 strong effort has been made to ke, d down the expenses of the outside DO IS without neglecting any worse cases al h. in this your board considers that tn Id have been successful. The prospero od business conditions during the great t. part of the year have contributed Id this result but on the other hand [ sr provisions of the widows pension q i'd passed by the last general assent
 have caused considerable additional c
 pense as a number of residents of t x, town are now receiving support und i1 this act. nI this years estimates f. special appropriation was asked for