The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-21

city budget, will receive the
boards attention, John New
house, president, said.
The board resumed private ses-
sions Wednesday afternoon after
a hectic public hearing in the morn
ing when a crowd estimated at 1900
taxpayers served notice of a tax
strike in which no levy higher
than $3.50 would be paid.
Call for Tax Strike
While leaders of the meeting in
sisted that the $3.50 law would be
observed rigidly, the audience inter-
jected shouts of strike" and greet
ed each mention of the limitation
law with wild applause.
Following adoption of a resolution
pledging the audience to abide
only by the $3.50 law" Albert Uhl,
president of the property owners
division of the Indianapolis Real
Estate Board, outlined the battle
plans of the tax reduction adyo-
Gates.
If the tax adjustment board does
not heed our appeal, we'll go be-
fore the state tax board And if we
get no relief there"
Well strike" taxpayer shouted.
We'll appeal to the courts" Uhl
continued, and ended his statement
with an invitation to the audience
to send donations to real estate
headquarters to defray litigation
costs.
Discuss School Aid
Considerable discussion deVeloped
in the private board session over the
amount of aid local schools will re-
celve from the state, with two es-
Inmates of varying amounts compli-
eating the situation.
The school board, in its budget re-
quests, figured an expectancy of
S324O00 from the state for the
1933-34 school term, basing the esti-
AAAc'NC VII pAuO d btdCIlHI.
Newhouse raised the question OF
$500 state aid, declaring it was his
understanding that such a sum
could be expected, and pointed out
that figures issued by the state
showed a sum of 1919, 900 for local
I'VE will receive $324,OO0 in Janu-
airy, according to our expectations.
based on 1924 teaching units of
thlrty-f1ve pupils EACH" Good ex-
planned.
Schools May Close
The state has estimated you will
receive $379000,' Russell Wilson.
school board member of the adjust
ment board, pointed out. There is
a difference there that should be
reconciled. If we should accept the
states estimate and find that it is
wrong, we might have to close the
schools"
After a long discussion, it was de-
cided to make an investigation to-
day on the source of the attendance
figures supplied the state by Fred T.
GLADDEN., former county school
who estimated daily
average attendance at $4,000 pupils.
Good declared that, actually, the
average daily attendance was APP
$1,000 only, accounting
in the variance on state aid esti-
mates.
We are presenting to you an
honest budget" asserted Julian
Wetzel, school board president, in
opening the hearing on the school
budget.
No Padded Costs
There are no hidden assets and
no padded expenditures. It is our
Judgment, after a careful and pro-
longed study, that this budget re-
quests the minimum amount of
money upon which the public
schools and the libraries can oper-
ate in the school year 1884"
Wetzel dec Jared that if the school
budget had been fixed on the 1882
property valuation, the rate would
be SO cents instead of the SO cents
requested.
The school budget totals $5.771.-
BOO, which, according to Wetzel. is
S2,196,147 less than in 1880 and
81, 1898 less than was collected in
the school year 1882"
We are custodians of S22 900, 900
worth of property" Wetzel asserted.
Failure to make adequate ap-
for the maintenance