The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-01-01
HART SHOWS THE DISTRIBUTION
TART Accompanying Letter Shows Distribution of Tax
Money, 1920 for Schools, 12.19o for County,
1920 for City, 1870 for State.

/ RPPAONfAHGbCAy 10 A1AAA4o'
The receipts from the income taS
are also less this year than last year
It can be shown that the high of,
fcials of the Simmons Company who
moved away from Kenosha paid ap-
proximately 100000 in income tas
last year, which the city will not re-
ceive this coming year.
Another noteworthy fact shown by
the diagram is that approximately
one-eighth of the tax dollor will go to
the county and AS cents to the state
The states apportionment this year
shows an increase of 10 cents oyer
last year.
The whole budget for years ex-
/ penditure for the municipality has
been kept as low as possible consist
ent with furnishing the high standard
of service you have demanded Of your
city.
| A few of the outstanding features
of the city's activities during the
past year are as follows:
! The Zoning Ordinance was passed
early in the year. This Zoning Or
dinance protects the homeowner so
that the INSCRIPTIONS builder will
not encroach in the residence dis
trict with his commercial buildings,
1t also insures the merchant against
the destruction of the commercial
district by encroachment of factor
les.
A paving program of 6.89 miles was
carried out. This makes a total of
twenty-five and a half (225l miles of
pavements that have been construct
ed by the present City Council in
the three years that they have serv-
ed you. The prices paid for pave
ment during the past year were prac-
! tically the same as those paid in 1923
and are less than those Of our neigh
boring cities. This shows that we
are putting in these pavements ct a
fair price to the taxpayers. Only
such streets were paved as were peyi-
toned for by majority of the front
age. Your City Council now has on
file petitions for approximately six
miles of pavement for construction in
1925.
During, the past year, in addition to
the 6.83 miles of pavement, we have
constructed 5.5 miles Of sewer, 6.2
miles of water main, and ga miles of
sidewalks.
The city has purchased on land con-
tract to be paid in ten annual pay
ments the lake shore property known
as the Pennoyer property, about thir-
| ty-fve acres in area, for park pur-
poses. This is one of the best pieces
of lake shore for this purpose, and
the city is very fortunate in obtain
ing it for public use. By this pur-
chase the city will also be able to
widen Milwaukee Avenue and relieve
bad traffic condition.
The budget for the coming year
contains the following items for gen
eral city betterment.
City's portion of street paw
ing ................ 6O,0UU
City's portion of sewers -. $4,000
Street widening and Civic
Center ............... $4,000
Widening bridge on Sheridan
Road at the tannery 80. $4,000
Paving Milwaukee Avenue
along the Pennoyer prop
erty ............. 10,OO0
Purchase of park property !. 10000
Culvert on Rowland Avenue 1880
lOLaI ......5 $500. 9zAl,oou
This requires approximately 80
mills of the tax levy for 1925.
The City is mailing real estate bills
to all known addresses to save the
time and trouble of calling person
ally at the City Hall to get them.
You will note that the tax bill is
raade out in printed form this year
instead of being written in longhand
as in former years. This method of
printing the tax bill has been adopted
as matter of economy. We esti-
mate that it will save the taxpayer
approximately $4,000 each year to get
the tax bills out in this printed way
rather than by the old method.
A plate has been made of the des-
cription of each parcel of property.
These plates have been checked and
year in making up the tax roll and
the tax bills. Under the old method
of making these bills, it was requir-
ed that the description of each par
eel of property be written three times
in longhand and checked each slime,
1 and since there are about 10000
pieces of property on the tax bill, this
required the writing in longhand of
$4,000 descriptions and the checking
of these descriptions each time. With
these checked descriptions on plates
ready to print, they may be stamped
onto the roll in onetenth of the time
| it would take to write them in long
hand. The calculations of the amounts
of the taxes and the writing of them
on the tax bin is also done by mod
ern calculating machines, so that err
rors are avoided and considerable
work is eliminated in making out
these tax bills.
/ This is called to your attention
! simply as one of the many business
methods we are installing for the CON
duct of city business.
If there is any question you may
wish to ask about your taxes or this
tax bill, we will be glad to have you
, call at the tax office for discussion
or an explanation.
Yours very truly.
w. H. Afford,
President of Council
III. E. Barden,
John Burns,
Robert Nicoll, ST.,
Otto ]. Scholer.