The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-07-19
WILL COST CITY
MORE THIS YEAR
SAYS ESTIMATE
City Dads VIII Consider Estimates
Of Expenses Of Operating Various
Departments for Year; Esti.
mate Is $ts4.028.
TO BE $4,000 HIGHER
THAN LAST FISCAL YEAR
Additional Levy Of e5 Mills VIII Be
Necessary. Says Officers; coun.
ell May Shave Amounts In
Some Departments.

A special levy OF 9.7 mills In ad.
dltion TO the regular q mills levy
will be required TO finance the city
government during the fiscal year
of 1929 II the mayor and city
council approve the estimates OF the
various departments as they have
been submitted for incorporation In
10 the budget for the year.
The estimates will be submitted
10 the council to be In recessed SEES
sion tomorrow evening in the city
hall. The budget for the year prob
ably will be finally adopted at this
session.
Estimates submitted by the heads
of the various departments call for
Sl94,02S TO finance the municipal
government during the year, which
began July /, 1922 and which ends
July /. 1923. This is $4,000 higher
than the total amount of the budget
for the year of l92l-22.
Few changes in the salary ac-
count have been proposed. The
amount requested for this purpose is
virtually the same as the amount
expended for salaries of city EN-
ployes last year. s24,410. Only two
salary increases are being asked for
and IL these two are granted, the
city water commissioner and the as
sistant cashier In the water depart
ment office will receive boosts in
pay.
The fire department is asking for
s29,34S. This provides for some i'm
provement In the cltys fire fighting
equipment.
If the estimates are approved as
submitted, the contingent and sup
ply fund for the year will amount to
s26,424. Twenty.eight thousand and
eighty-one dollars will be available
for street and bridge improvement
and maintenance.
More money is required to operate
the water department than any 9th
er department of the city govern
ment. This department, however, Is
a liberal source of revenue. Water
Commissioner McBurnett is asking
for S56,21O to finance his department
throughout the year.
In the estimates submitted for con-
sideration by the mayor and city
council, $10,500 is asked for the
street lighting fund. The park
board, a new branch of the city gov
ernment, is asking for approximate
ly $4,000 to support and maintain
the property now under the jurisdic-
tion of the board.
The Library Board is asking for
$3.50 and the Cemetery Board is
requesting $4,000 Support for these
two boards is obtained through in
diyidual levies. AS much as two
mills may be assessed for library
purposes while the maximum levy
for support of the Cemetery Board
is prescribed by law at one-half mill.
If the estimates are approved as
submitted, the assessment for the
Library Board will not exceed three
fourths of mill, while the Gene
terry assessment will not be more
than one-half of the maximum levy,
according to ]. r. Wellborn, city
clerk.
Cash receipts from the various
branches of the city government will
total SeI 500, 1t is estimated. This
revenue will come from the police
department, the license department
of the city clerks office, the street
and water departments.
The amount the estimates show
will be needed, less the amount oi
the estimated cash receipts, leaves
s1S2,52S that would be raised by
taxation.
Figures in the city clerks office
show that the assessed valuation Of
the city is $7,SOO,279. The six mills
which may be assessed without ths
sanction of the voters of the city
would net $46,SO1. An additiona
levy of 81 mills would bring $75,69!
into the city treasury.
1T is very apparent that 1t will
be necessary to call a special cleo
ton to provide for an additiona
levy" Mayor Coffman says. IF thi
is turned down, the city government
will be paralyzed throughout the en-
tire fiscal year.
"Old Timers" around the city hal
predict that several slices will b
taken from the estimates submitte
by the various departments. THE
have never failed to do it," said on
ef them.