The Redwood gazette., 1936-02-13
COMMISSIONERS
MAKE PROVISIONS
FOR POOR NEEDS
Will Borrow Up To $85,OOO
AS Needed; Fear End of
WPA Assistance
Rotary Snowplow Bought To
Cope With Unusually
Severe Winter

Faced with a deficit and over
draft in the poor fund and the in
sufficiency of tax levies to cover
administering of aid, the board of
county commissioners voted last
Thursday to borrow funds as
needed up to $4,000 for poor re-
lief needs during 1886.
Recognizing, in resolution
submitted by Herman Beckman,
that an emergency exists making
necessary extensive borrowing
the commissioners voted unani-
mously to acquire amounts as
needed at the lowest rate of in
terest obtainable the first install
ment of the bonds to be issued, TO
come due in not less than three
years and the final installment to
be payable in not more than 10
years, pursuant to Minnesota sta
tutes.
The board cited that no assur-
ance has been given of the contin-
uation of the Works Progress Ad-
ministration, the discontinuance
of which would increase the coun-
tvs relief cost and noted that be-
cause of "severe financial and &C.
onomic conditions and of the re-
lief load built up by the Federal
Emergency Relief office, it has
been necessary for this county to
render aid to the poor in larger
numbers and amounts than was
ever anticipated.
Due to the increased relief rolls,
the board pointed out that funds
Tor such purposes have been ex-
hausted, while the borrowing of
money from other funds in the
treasury has left a deficit and ov-
erdraft in the poor fund.
The estimated deficit in the
poor fund, providing WPA is con-
tinued, is expected to be about
s25, 900 but the board felt it adj
visabie to provide for borrowing
the larger amount, fearing that
WPA might be stopped as sudden
ly as were CWA and ERA which
would increase the county's relief
load about $50 families, approx
mately 1,500 people.
The board appropriated $4,000
for the immediate purchase of ad-
ditional equipment, rotary snow
plow, for the removal of snow
from the county's $50 miles of
road stating that if the snow is
allowed to remain on the roads,
great damage will be caused when
it melts. Numerous complaints,
the commissioners said, had been
received from taxpayers because
the county and state aid roads are
blocked. The county's present
equipment for removing snow is
inadequate to meet the emergency
brought about by the unprecedent-
ed heavy snowfalls of the winter.
In order to meet the state re-
quirements for obtaining approp-
riations made by the legislature to
help the counties in their relief
work, the board shifted complete
charge of the authorization of re-
lief orders, medical and other
poor assistance from the commits
sioners themselves to the relief
office of Mrs. Eleanor Bue. The
state emergency relief officials
have specified that all relief must
be administered through the coun-
ties relief agencies.
Declaring that the personnel Of
the county relief office is not suf-
ficient to make proper investiga-
tion of cases and that great deal
of time has been wasted by un-
interviews, the board
voted to exclude relief clients
from the relief office, at least
three days during each week.
The commissioners approved a
proposal by the Redwood Falls
city council that it match $500 put
up by the city toward eradicating
with radio reception
in the residential district ana with
the state bureau of GRIM
inal apprehension broadcasting
station here.