The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-11-05
TAX LEVIES MADE.

The city council this week finishe.
the equalization of the tax books b
the city and made the tax levy for tn,
fiscal year. The total levy is % mills
eleven mills of which are for tn,
schools. The levy for general fund j,
mills, schools ii mills, old bond ta,
6 mills, and new bond issue tax
mills
The board of supervisors ON Tues
day afternoon made the tax levy 70.
Grenada county for the fiscal year
The total levy which will be paid by
the five districts of the county is 29
mills. divided as follows: General
fund 4, road and bridges mills, school
fund 112, loan warrants and interest
Si2, sinking fund 8. and for state pur-
poses 9 mills, 10 which will be added
in all The districts save District 5, 6
mills for roads.
Il addition 10 the g mills above,
the Gore Springs school district, in
Beat ., will pay S12 mills for main
tenance OF schools and mills for bond
tax. The levy for roads in District 5
is only mills, but the Holcomb con-
Solidated school district will pay s
= mills for bond tax, Tie Plant school
district will pay + mills for main
tenance Of school. Thus it will be
seen, for example, that the levy for all
purposes on. the taxpayers outside OF
separate school districts in District l,
will pay on a levy OF 80 mills. In
District 5, Holcomb school district, the
total levy is SO mills.
A road tax of $500 was levied or
persons in the county outside or Gre
NADIA who are subject 10 road duty.
Now perhaps the first thing that
will pop up in the minds OF some cit
izens, will be to "cuss's the board Of
supervisors. This paper expects that
when the members of that body take
a retrospect and see some of the
things that they have done, that they
will feel like "cussing" themselves d
little, but it is not right, it is not just
TO the supervisors to lay the blame
for the big tax levy on the board. That
body has done largely what the people
who, elected the members wanted
done. The people have been asking
q great deal at the hands Of the super
visors. Why the people in some cases
have been in such haste to have work
zone, that even bridges 'ravr. sess, los
out where the contract ran up into
several thousand dollars without an
for bids-in letting out
these contracts. the board was acting
D1 the urgent demands of taxpayers,
so the big county debt and the big tax
,evy is the fruit of the peoples SOW
ng The past few years have been
years of wild spending IN both private
md public affairs. This paper cannot ;
conceive OF public work that is so in-
1octanr. especially where the contract
runs UP into several thousand dollars,
hat it should be let out without being t
advertised TO the public. 1t is true
he law provides that such things may
,e done under certain conditions, bur
he passage OF the law that provides. !
hat. was in keeping with the spirit OF
he debt contracting OF the day.
The supervisors have hard job. In :
many respects the supervisors have
hankless JOB but this paper would
again remind the citizenship OF the :
county that the public at large must
,ear the responsibility. or very largely
%. OF the present tax levy. The super,
yisors have tried TO accommodate
themselves 10 the demand OF the peO'
lie and It is the people who asked for
he expenditures which make big
eVy necessary.