Milford chronicle., 1955-08-19
Stan Marvel Is
Rotary Speaker
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Any community must either go
forward or baekward-no Com
munity stands still.
This expansion is a healthy con-
dition, because il is not an over
night expansion. but this expansion
is proceeding by successive stages.
It is not sporadic.
In 1853 the City issued 73 build
ing permits with a declared value
of 1884 $50.
In 1854 the City issued rs build
ing permits with a declared value
of S592,3S
From January /. 1855 TO August
l, 1855 "a period of seven months)
the City issued So building permits
with a declared value of s423.273.
Projecting this construction bust
ness into the future; continuing at
the same rate we would issue 295
building permits in 1865 with a de-
clared value of s2,500,000. This is
the way the engineers estimated
the traffic flow over the Delaware
Memorial Bridge and the New Jer-
sey Turnpike, and the estimate was
far short of what actually hap
pened. / hope that is true in this
case.
In 1853 the City had 275D cleo
trio customers; 1854 the city had
5000 electric customers; and as of
August /, the City had $3.50 cleo
trio customers. This produces a go
increase each year. Not going any
further back than 1953-we have an
1870 increase in electric business
in 2 years. In 1854 the City pur-
chased 11ao more energy than they
did in 1853, and so far this year we
have purchased 11% more energy
than we purchased last year This
shows our customers are using
more energy each year. Air condi-
TONERS are helping. This past July
we purchased more than we pur-
chased between December Is and
January 15-during the Christmas
season.
We are handling this 1870 custo-
mer increase with the same office
personnel this cannot continue
without adding more help to take
care of the increase in business.
AS the electric customers in
service calls increase
the number of meters to read in
crease the number of bills to
make out and mail increases and
on down the line to and including
the increase in size of wire to sup
ply electric energy to the custo-
mers and more and larger trans
formers.
A 5KVA transformer costs s104.
A so KVA transformer costs S545
and so on.
Because of the high price asked
for copper wire, we have gone to
aluminium wire.
Aluminium wire gives us a 40d
saving in cost.
Each house adds more to the
work load in billing electric custo-
mers, water customers, sewer GUS
and taxes. Each house adds
an average, of 80 pounds of rub
bish to our weekly rubbish collec-
tions.
For each child born there is an
increase in our weekly rubbish coll
lection. Parents buy canned baby
food, packages from the drug store,
dress shops, and toy stores. Even
rubber pants are wrapped in ma
terials which end up in the rubbish
The bow tie you wear is
with a small piece of
attached. The shirt you
wear was purchased with some pa
per which wound it's way into the
containers. Even disposable
iiapers find their way into rubbish
I only give this as an
example of how the work load in
,reases by the population increases.
Now to give you few figures to
show you where your money goes
Tor municipal services.
This years budget expenditures
(which is for the fiscal year ending
this Seutember 30) were anticipated
to be s526.77123
The expenditures showed that'l
1879 was spent on General and Ad-
while $3.50 of this ex-
penditure was for debt service. 11%
was allotted to Public Safety: 479o
was allotted TO the electric depart
ment; and this includes power pur-
chased.
49o was allotted to Water De-
partment maintenance;