The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-01-10
SALARY RAISE
FOR TREASURER
City Council Orders Sewerage
Bonds and Tax Revenue Notes
of 1921 Cancelled.
Edwards Re- Appointed

Al the special meeting OIL ClIy COun-
ell, held last Friday night, an amend
ment to the ordinance fixing the sal
aries of city officials was advanced to
second reading so that the City Treas
urer will receive the sum of $500 per
year in the future instead of 5000, as
now paid. Harry w. Helfrich, Jr.,
was just appointed to this position.
Councilman Edward T. Stephenson
offered a resolution that the Mayor,
City Clerk and City Treasurer be au-
thorized to cancel sewerage bonds to
the amount of $%29,0S9.59. This was
done because money to that amount
had been paid in on the special sew
erage assessments and will relieve the
city from paying interest on that am
cunt of money, also at the same time
reducing the total amount of bonded
Indebtedness of the city. Another
resolution authorized the same Off
Gals to cancel tax revenue notes of
1921 to the amount of $S,935.S3.
Another resolution appropriated
sums of $1,000 for streets, preserva-
ton of life and property and admins
trative and executive departments, SO
that funds would be available for
work in these departments until the
annual appropriation ordinance could
be prepared and passed. 1t was stat
ed that this ordinance would soon be
ready for passage. Still another res
olution was adopted appointing Dan
lei Edwards overseer of the poor for
a term of five years.
Councilman Stephenson announced
that there would probably be a reduc-
ton in the charge made by the Allan
tic City Electric Company for current
supplied in Pleasantville for lighting
purposes. He said that possibly the
charge would be reduced from II
cents to 13 cents per k. W. h. This is
said to apply to current used for resi-
dental lighlting There is a-separate
rate maintained for commercial use
of current.
Tax Collector Webster Price an.
nounced that he was greatly in need
of a new address book, also that a
new city map was needed, as the pres
ent map was badly worn in places.
He also requested Council to furnish
his office with steel filing cases where
his records could be kept safe from
fire and not lay around on desks as
they do now. When the amendment
to the salary ordinance was introduc-
ed he remarked that the present sal
airy of the Tax Collector and City
Assessors, which is S1100 per annum,
should at least be doubled.
Councilman Stephenson announced
that City Solicitor Champion was now
engaged in drafting an ordinance to
limit the speed of trains through the
city, and tlfat the ordinance would be
ready for first reading at the next
meeting of Council. He said that the
ordinance would be enforced strictly
unless the railroads placed safety
gates at both the New Road and
Franklin venue grade crossings.
The Public Utilities Board has order
ed gates placed at the New Road
crossings, but Council wants Franklin
avenue protected by gates also, and
will insist hat the railroads comply
with this demand.
Councilman Stephenson also com
mented on the fact that many citizens
fail to pay their poll and personal
taxes each year and that many mer-
chants do not pay the required mer-
camille tax. He said that an effort
should be made this year to collect
these taxes, SO hat the burden of tax
would not fall so heavy on real estate
owners If these three items of tax
are collected according to existing
laws, there would be a large sum of
money realized which would cause a
reduction of the taxes of the real es-
tate owner, who has to pay both poll
and personal tax, they being ON his
ones who dodge payment are those
who own no real estate and are not
contributing their portion to the ex-
penses of running the city.
DANCE FRIDAY NIGHT.