The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-12-03
r & B Fund
Cut $4,000
By Com n rs
Taxpayers Meeting Held In
This City November rs
Brought Fruit
REDUCTION OF $4,000
1882 Levy Will Be Lowest
Since 1926 Road and
Bridge Fund Suffers

AT a special meeting of the
Stearns county commissioners held
Monday delegation from the tax
payers meeting held in this city
Wednesday afternoon of last week
appeared before the board and
asked for a further reduction of
taxes. At the Sank Centre meeting
drastic resolutions were passed de-
handing that the tax burden be
lightened.
Previous to Mondays meeting by
resolution the road and bridge fund
budget had been reduced by $751;
600. At Mondays meeting another
$4,000 was Topped off. Other funds
had been reduced $4,000 and with
the amount taken off Monday the
total reduction approximates $113,-
600.
With the action of the board Mon
day Stearns county had Topped off
the greatest amount in tax dollars
of any county in rural Minnesota.
The tax levy for next year will be
1912 mills, the lowest since 1926
when the rate was 11.3.
The resolution to effect the fur
Their reduction in the road and
bridge fund was offered by Commits
sioner Charles Weber and was Sec
onded by Commissioner Henry
Michael. The resolution reads:
Whereas a resolution was adopt
ed by this board on July Is, 1881,
and recorded in the county board
proceedings record al" on page 289
in which resolution this board lev
led the sum of one hundred twenty
five thousand dollars for road and
bridge purposes, and
Whereas, the foregoing resolu-
ton referred to was amended by
resolution adopted by this board on
October 6. 1881, and recorded in
county board proceedings record
81" on page 300, in which amend
ed resolution this board reduced the
levy to one hundred thousand dol
lars for road and bridge purposes,
and
Whereas, this board believes it
advisable to further decrease the
amount of tax levy for road and
bridge purposes.
Nov, therefore, be it resolved,
that the levy for road and bridge
purposes be reduced to seventy-f1ve
thousand dollars, and that the coun-
ty auditor of this county is hereby
instructed and directed to levy only
the sum of seventy-five thousand
dollars for road and bridge pur-
poses for the year 1881"
All members of the board affixed
their signatures to resolution. The
amount established by the boards
action on July 13, when the budget
was adopted. was reduction of
$4,000 from the 1880 levy which
was $4,000.
1.-THE board cut $4,000 off the
road and bridge levy before there
was any sign of agitation toward
tax reduction" Commissioner Web
err said, land when we acted to re-
duce the fund further by $4,000 on
October 6, there had not been any
concerted agitation toward tax re-
duction."
Lengthy discussion of road con-
ditions demands for new roads pre-
coded this action. The special
meeting had been called by Chair
man Ferdinand Bergman, of Sank
Centre, and representatives of the
taxpayers association, formed last
week at Sank Centre, had been in
vited. No representatives attended.
The levy of S75,0 900 will permit the
maintenance of roads but will not
provide for new construction, at
least not much. There will be
some construction funds available
from state aid and the county's
portion of the gas tax.
The county tax rate for 1881, If
the estimate of 1912 is correct, will
be about the same as that of 1925,
if allowance is made for the poor
and the cattle test funds. In 1925
the rate was 1910 mills, and the
valuation was about a million dol
lars less than 1881.
Rates and valuations since 1925