White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-10-01
Taxpayers to
Ask Further
Budget Cuts
GROUP AT PROssER WOULD
DISPENSE WITH ROAD
WORK FOR YEAR

From all accounts, the Benton coun-
ty' commissioners will be confronted
with a large and interested group of
taxpayers when the board meets next
Monday for final action and adoption
of the county budgets for 1882
| At a preliminary meeting a few
weeks ago the commissioners made re-
auctions in the estimated budgets of
nearly all of the various county offices,
the total being in the neighborhood of
$4,000 under the amount asked
But further reductions may probably
be demanded. AT Prosser, where a
mass meeting of farmers and business
men was held a month or so ago, and
| where those attending the meeting
voted by large majority to ask that
the county agent, county nurse and
county club leader be eliminated, the
Prosser Community club, on Tuesday,
went on record for further reductions
| Salary cuts, discontinuances of Of
| flee, and elimination of road work for
| a year were suggested to lower the
county expenditures. The resolutions
adopted by the Grandview Commercial
club and sent to the Yakima county
commissioners, were studied and the
Prosser club voted to draw up similar
resolutions
| Members proposed that the general
road and bridge work be discontinued
for year, which would eliminate $751;
600 from the proposed budget This
would stop most of the construction
and maintenance for one year.
Those advising salary cuts found
opposition in T. E. Brochhausen, Pros
ser merchant, who said that the coun-
ty employees should not be forced to
bear the whole burden of reduced ex-
penses
The tax situation has reached a
point where some action must be ta-
ken" he said, but we cannot expect
that county employees of the county
to- bear all the burden We must make
some sacrifices ourselves"
A motion that the resolutions passed
by the Grandview club be passed by
the Prosser club for action in Benton
county brought protests of several
members, who said that the Grandview
action was radical. The club decided
to appoint a committee to draw up
resolutions to be presented at a spe-
cial meeting Tuesday. Members sug-
gested for the committee were Brock
hansen, l.. T. Campbell and Andrew
Brown
A mass meeting of county residents
will be held in Benton City Friday
night to prepare suggestions to present
to the commissioners Monday when
final action on the budget is taken.
The proposed budget is approximate
ly $4,000 less than last year, and the
commissioners have already made cuts
of 10 per cent in salaries of employees
The community club indicated it will
ask that heads of departments volun-
tarily take a decrease in pay.
At a well represented meeting of
taxpayers held in White Bluffs Sep
TENDER 8, it was voted to ask the coun-
ty commissioners to retain the county
agent, county club leader and county
nurse after it had been pointed out
that the elimination of these offices
would mean very little saving to the
average taxpayer. A committee made
up of L. A. Coddng, r. j. Roberts and
S. v. Tanning was appointed at the
meeting to meet with the commission
erS when the budgets are up for final
action October S.