The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-09-05
LETTER FROM LIGHT


financial statement of Marion coun.
tvs road fund says:
Expenses of road fund for six
months ending March /, 1921, was
s4i,572; expenses of road fund for
six months ending March 81, 1916,
was $14.637.05; increase of expenses
for 1921 over 1916. same length of
time, was 331, 935.O5.
Why has it cost the taxpayers for
roads So, 935.05 more in six months
of 1921 than same time in 1916, and
when and how has this money been
spent
/ BY what law and under what autho-
rity did our county commissioners
borrow $4,000 in the expenditure of
this s46.OoO.OOO in the six months
lmentioned?
| County commissioners, a published
statement of where and amount of
these expenditures will save you fur
Their annoyance.
The total costs for county roads in
1910 was s26, 453; six months in 1913
and six months in 1914 was $27 ,554.43,
and six months in 1921, $46,572; $780,
900 borrowed and left the treasury
short of $1,996,22 of what was on
hand Oct. 1. 1920.
District No. / in the six months
4 spent =. ............$ 6,o19.fo
District No. 2 spent. 1O,623.96
District No. spent 1890. 1O,S47.64
District No. a spent ....... 9,645.96
j District No. spent $500. 8,544.6S
, Contingencies amounted to 319.76
i Making a total of. ..... SAG, 90
According to 1915 census report
! there were 5000 people in district No.
II. This district received about $3.50
} per head for road work; district No
with 1474 persons in the district
; received $6.7O for each and every per-
son, living in the district; district No
Is, 7777 persons, received $1.10 pei
peson against $6.70 is another dis.
ltrict.
E / have mislaid my figures on the
assessed valuation of each commits
j sioner's district so am quoting from
memory. District No. pays $50 il
taxes to each dollar paid in districr
flNo. 4, and now ask where is th'
right and justice in spending $6.7O
: for road purposes in district No.
when S1.1O is spent in district No. 5
o and district No. pays $50 taxes t.
: district No. AS 81 for each person?
It / have enough of this.
II Civil engineers report for 191'
: gives an itemized account of eacl
/. dollar spent on each road in each dis
ltrict. 1t cost 7.3 per lineal foot t
Ibuild 1918 feet on the Ocala an
t. Sharp's Ferry road District No.
d spent to build 14,728 lineal feet o.
n the Dunnellon road $2.019.93; spen
Icn 0cala and Leesburg road, 1887
) lineal feet, $1,690.77. In district Nc
d 4 II miles of road was graded an
st opened and bridges repaired. costin
Iel s20155 and in district No. 5 there wa
a spent on Mcintosh road. lime an
v slay, 4561 feet. $2s7.54; ocala an
re Fairfield road 1O.2O3 feet, lime an
If clay. 81. 1879. etc.
se The records show it paid our count
It to have road engineer supervise tn
ID cost of building roads and the record
/ Of late fail to show on which road
l. our monies have been spent and tn
conditions of our roads and the cas-
ar for roads on hand testifies the nee
We IF change in our road Management
I'd Therefore, | petition our count
commissioners to hire competel
ar road engineer. to publish each mont
to the amount of monies and on whic
On road spent and the engineer to beg
on work at the beginning of our budg
ear October 1st. 1921.
RI l. S. Light.
Or. Reddick, September 3.