The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-05

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The plan of millage and taxa
ton is based upon the estimate
that the assessed property in
Escambia will increase at the nor
NAL rate of one million dollars per
year until the year 1850, when the
bonds will all have matured and
been paid.
Beginning with the year 1921
the levy for interest and sinking
fund to meet this bond issue will
mills, and will then increase at
the rate of one mill per year until
at the end of the year 1925, it will
be 9 mills, and from then on it
will gradually decrease, being for
1925, mills, 1927, mills, 1928
1929, 1880, each mills, and 1881,
1882, 1888, each mills, and 1884,
1885, 1896 each mills, and then
3 mills until 1916, when 1t will be
three years at 2 mills, and then
for the last three years at ] mill.
This is at an average rate Of
$40 mills for the entire period,
and will produce exactly enough
taxes to meet all interest and sink
ing fund demands.
The average millage now levied
in Escambia county for road pur-
poses is 8 mills. With construc-
ton of permanent roads with the
proceeds of this bond issue, at an
average of 4 $40 mills for the
bonds and a further levy of four
mills for necessary branch roads,
maintenance, etc, the total levy
for road purposes will actually be
less than it is at the present time.
In other words, we now levy
a nine-mill tax for road purposes;
with the bonds we will levy only
an s $40 mills average over d
period of 80 years. The construc-
ton of these permanent highways
will mean not an increase but a
decrease in the tax rate.
The county budget for roads
now includes an amount approx
mately of 100000 for the upkeep
of these five roads, which under
the bond issue will no longer be
needed. We also pay into the
state road department a two-mill
tax annually or $4,000, which will
increase annually as the assess
ments increase and will in 1926
amount to about $4,000. These
two items will no longer be paid
by the county, If the constitu-
tional amendment is carried, or If
independent of this, these roads
are declared state roads by the
state road department. and are
paved under this plan. The up
keep charges will be borne by the
state, the state receiving in lieu
thereof all the automobile license
and registration fees.
The Sum of All of These Figures
is This:
IF the county votes these bonds,
and the state amendment is car
ried, we get q splendid system of
permanent roads without any in
crease in the tax rate, but actual
~ save each year an average of
7-10 of mill in the tax rate.
If the constitutional amendment
is not carried, then the figures
are changed to this extent: we
will probably continue TO pay the
state the two mill tax now levied:
your roads will be built with less
money, as we will lose large
part Of the 100000 of state and
federal aid, which would be appor-
toned to the above roads, as we'll
as the Ferry Pass bridge The
county bond issue will then be ap-
portioned as follows:
Flomaton Road: 100000; plus
any federal aid we may obtain.
Nunez Ferry road: $3.50, 900; plus
same as above.
Ferry Pass road, $4,000; to be
apportioned to the two other roads
If the bridge is not built.
Gulf Beach Highway, $500, goo.
The roads which are to receive
state and federal aid will be built
as soon as state and federal aid
funds are available and our bonds
are sold. This commission is
pledged to use every effort pos
sible to hasten their construction
and TO see that they are built in a
manner to meet the approval of
the people in the communities to
be affected
Il cannot assert with positive &C.
uracy what impression these state
nents made upon the minds of tn.
'oters. I can only say that when
Frote them hoped they would be &C.
opted by the voters at par and l in
ended fhar, ana L intend rnrr Il IL