The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-01-06
COMMITTEE REPORTS ON ROAD PETITION;
RECOMMEND BONDING FOR TAMIAMl TRAIL
Charlotte County
Part of GeatCr Highway; Report Meets With Ap
proyaI is Adoped

.Fy 10 Lne Calling VI DOHu tlcCllOh
to determine if the people of Char
. lotte county wish to issue bonds for
he improvement of the Tamiami
trail in Charlotte county be taken at
soon as possible, is the recommends
Ition of the commissioners committee
appointed to investigate and report
upon the petitions signed by about
26O citizens and taxpayers asking for
! countrywide bonding election. The
committee further recommended that
the petitions referred to be laid upon
he table, as they were irregular and
the board did not feel like taking
the responsibility of calling an elec-
|tion for a countrywide issue of bonds
of the size contemplated in the petit
} Itions.
The report of the committee was
3 presented at an adjourned meeting OF
the commissioners held Wednesday
afternoon and was adopted by unani-
: nous vote, Messrs. Windham, chair
man, Whitten, Knight and Hobson
being present at the meeting.
Following is the committees re-
port, in full. which was read by the
committee before the board, and with
: the exception of Commissioner Hob
son, seemed to meet with hearty ap-
proval of the commissioners and the
several citizens who were present:
"Your committee, to whom was re-
ferred the petition of A. c. Frizzell
and 255 other citizens and taxpayers
, of the county asking this board to
call an election to authorize the issue
of county bonds in an amount sufnc-
lent to make needed repairs to old
roads and to open and construct such
new roads as shall meet the needs
and wishes of the people of all sec
tions of the county, respectfully re-
port that they have carefully con-
: sidered said matter and now submit
their findings thereon.
First. Neither Section 1881, Re
yised General Statutes OF l92O, I'M
! der which this board must act II II
: attempts to call an election for hard
surfacing roads, nor the act relating
- to special road and bridge districts
y authorizes the issue of bonds for th'
Il purpose of repairing roads. Thl
% board is, therefore, poweriess u
q grant the prayer of this petition II
- so far AS it relates to needed repair
d to old roads.
le Second. Your committee would re
n spectfully call attention to the diner
a. ence between an issue OF county poho
for hardsurfaced roads and the bono
of a special road and bridge dlstric
Responsibility for calling an electio
to vote special road district pone
r rests solely with twenty-five per cen
u of the duly qualified electors OF u
district. while the responsibility II
I'll calling an election to vote couH
bonds for roads, rests solely with al
upon the Board of County comm
sioners. The fact, however, does n
- relieve this board from giving carer
consideration and due weight 10
petition signed by so large nump
of influential citizens and taxpaye
,o as the petition of Mr.. Frizzell al
- others. which petition is now und'
sc consideration, and it is therelol
. nroper to state the reasons that hay
~ induced this board to assume the r
or sponsibility of taking steps for calm
=. an election to vote county bonds VII
which to hardsurface the Tamian
= trail through the county wnlie IL "
=, clines to assume the responsibility IL
the much larger bond issue conteh
. Mated by the petitioners. Ihese col
siderations may be briefly stateo
NJ follows:
no "First: Many of our progresslV
IN and influential citizens and taxpayer
til believe that the question OF dramas
ne in certain sections OF the coun.
sbouId be settled before sultaol
be n,an for countrywide system OF roau
od con he intelIigently adopted. Dlsr'
cd gard of the importance OF thls uraih
by age QueSJlon hdS O -. -,
on principal causes of unsatisfactory ~ :,
"a suits from the expenditure OF none
he on our ROADS. - .,,+ q,
IT'S second: The principles tnat a.
is- rlv in a consideration of bona i
" ~ 20 for general system of count
roods do not apply with equal ror'
to to a bond issue for the Tamiaml tfa "a
snt for two especial and, in the oplnlu ~
he 80 vour committee, controlling re-
In sons First, this county has inner,
rly 81 srom Desoto county moral OBJ
nas cation, and so far as one counes ny. y :
ere legally bind another county It I mas nsr :
cen berited a legal obligation 70 eor, na.
ltly surface that road from Punta 0O,' aO,,
oon SUI county line.A Before cou