The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-07-08
SALES TAX LAW
ADOPTED But NO
DATE TO START
City Council 10 Hold Meet
ing for Study Of Rules
10 Be Made

The city ordinance calling for a
percent speclal-purpose sales
tax was adopted by the City Coun-
Gil at its meeting last night, but
no starting date for collections was
set.
Instead, a special meeting of the
council is scheduled for next Fri
day. during which the council will
hear suggestions for rules and reg
ulations under which the tax will
be collected.
Mayor Waino Hendrickson said a
starting date will probably be set
during the meeting, but stated that
he could not see how the sales
tax could be put into effect before
August /.
Requests for Qualification OF GER
tain sections of the ordinance Cy
two Juneau businessmen present
at the meeting last night indicated
that city officials will have a num-
Der of questions to answer before
sales tax collections can be carried
out with the minimum of trouble,
Mayor Hendrickson said that the
questions will be tackled at the
special meeting.
The sales tax ordinance was. ap-
proved by a slim margin when
Juneau voters went to the polls
during a special election June 20.
Revenue from the tax will be used
to pay off the city's present and
future bonded indebtedness.
City to Borrow
Mayor Hendrickson told the coun-
Gil last night that the city will
have to borrow funds to tide il
over until November when reven-
ues begin coming in, and the coun-
Gil passed a motion authorizing
the borrowing of up to $4,000, as
funds are required.
Pointing out that it is in better
financial shape than 1t was last
year at this time, Mayor Hendrick-
son said that the city would prob
ably have ended the fiscal year,
October /, without borrowing if
business license revenues were paid
quarterly as they were in the past.
At present, business license fees
are collected by the Territory at
the end of the year, and go per
cent of the amount collected in
the city is returned to the city
treasury, he explained.
He said the city began to borrow
in April last year, but all the morley
borrowed was repaid. f9s
While on the subject of taxes, the
council read for the first time an
ordinance amending the city's pres
ent tax ordinance.
The ordinance provides that mo-
tor vessels will be assessed and
taxed as personal property at the
beginning of each year, when the
vehicle is licensed.
MUNICIPAL buuOlng
The city will buy a strip of
Juneau-Young Hardware Company
property roughly SO by 70 feet in
dimension and adjoining the site
for Juneau's new municipal building
on South Seward Street, the coun-
Gil decided.
The city had been granted an
option on the property. Price was
set at Sl.45 per square foot, the
same as the cost of the Waynor
and MacKinnon properties at South
Seward Street and Marine Way,
purchased recently as the site for
the new city structure.
Other terms Of the purchase
were that the city tear down the
part of the building on the prop
erty purchased and seal off the
end of the Juneau Young building.
The council also passed a motion
that bids on clearing and filling
part of the municipal building site
be called for.
Cost of purchasing the site anc
filling and clearing will be paid
from the 100000 given by the Ter
ritory for the present City Hall
property and the vacant lot ad-
joining it.
Bids Opened
Three sets of bids were opened
by the council and two low bids
were accepted. G. A. Baldwin's
low bid Of 1887 for repairs to the
City Hall roof. damaged during a
windstorm. was accepted. Acme
Disposal Services bid of Sc per
month for hauling garbage from