, 1922-11-01
TAX DEuNQuENC|Es UNDER PRESENT
BOARD Of COMMISSIONERS GREATEST
IN THE HISTORY OF PARK COUNTY
Fines will Not Offset Increased Expenses of Sheriffs Office
And Criminal Costs 1000 Will Be Necessary
To Finish Administration

Expense. clerk Of court expense, JUS
tice court expense and the office Of
county and prosecuting attorney.
In an earlier article these items
when aggregated for the particular
corresponding Is months periods, OF
periods of sem-annual abstract
statement were shown to be as fol-
lows:
January 1, 1917, to June 80,
1918, while Hoops was sher-
III 8.OS
January 1, 1919, to June 80,
1920, while Barber was sher-
lift 8,34S.19
january /, 1921, to June 80,
1922, while Davis was sheriff
5000
To show the -falacy of any state
ment that may be made to the effect,
that the aggregate justice court and
district court fines collected and de-
posted in the traesuy funds of the
county have made a business and
creditable showing for the office of
the present sheriff under the present
board of county commissioners the
following figures are presented.
If from each Of the last above
mentioned sums there be deducted
the respective total of the fines COLI
lected during the corresponding pc
RODS under the three different SKIER
ifs the net cost to the county, after
deducting the fines received, will be
l.. si4,75s.os total for FIRST 10
months during 1917-l8, less the
$4,000 fines collected equals sl4,-
643.08, net cost to county while Ma
jor Hoops was shelf.
2. s1s,34S.19 total for first 10
months 1920, less the $2079.l7
fines collected, equals $16,269.02, net
cost to county while Barbe was sher-
if.
s.. s~26,57o.so total for first Is
months 1922, less the $4483. 65,
fines collected, equals $220S6.65, net
cost to county while Davis has been
sheriff up to only the date June 80,
1922.
1t is to be noted that in arriving
at the last above schedule of figures
the fines deducted for the periods
presided over by Hoops and Barber
have each been all the fines collected
throughout their respective two
year TENS, and that these fines have
been deducted from the total costs
growing out of their respective first
IS month periods, which correspond
similarly with the first Is months
under the present sheriff.
In spite of this advantage given
to the Davis regime It appeals that
the sheriff's office under the present
sheriff has been operated at a net
cost to the county which is $7443.57
more than was the cost during the
corresponding period in 1917-1S dun
ing which Hopes was sheriff and that
the net cost to the county from jan
uary l, 1921, to June 80, 1922, is
$5817.63 greater than it was in the
corresponding similar period while
Barber was the sheriff of Park county.
This article carries this cmopari-
son a second step farther. The whole
two year periods of both Hoops and
Barber while respectively serving
the county as sheriff will be compared
with the var and a half between Jan
uary /, 1921, and June 80, 1922 dur
ing which Davis has been sheriff.
The total cost to the county dur
ing two years while Hoops was sher-
if, involving the costs OF the sheriff's
office. criminal expense, district
court, clerk of court, justice court and
prosecuting attorney, from January
1, 1917, to December 81, 1918, was
~$17,228.01. This amount less the s115
fines collected equals $17113.O1.
Similarly the total corresponding
cost under sheriff Barber for two
whole years 1919 to 1910 inclusive
amounts to $24,204.34, which last
amount less the fines $2079.17 col
Iected under BARRIERS term equals
S22125.17 for net cost to Park coun-
ty.
1t has already been shown that the
corresponding cost under Davis for
only IS months, a year and a half, up
to June 80, 1922, is S22o36.65.
In other words, under Davis as
sheriff for a year and a half the
county has had a net expense Of 81
| 1854 greater than it had under
Hoops for two whole years.
Similarly, under Davis as sheriff
for a year and a half,up to June 80,
1922, the county has had a net ex-
pense which is only 1882 less than
il had under Barber 70 rtwo whole
years, january /, 1919, to January
/, 1921. This does not include the last
8 months during which sheriff Davis
still will preside.
This article carries this compari-
son a third step farther.
On the basis that the costs Of the
above described functions Of the
county government resting in the Of
fee Of sheriff, county clerk and pros
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