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CITY OF SOMERVILLE
MASSACHUSETTS
ANNUAL REPORTS
1946
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February
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HON. G. EDWARD BRADLEY Mayor of Somerrille
MAR 19 '48
MID-TERM ADDRESS of MAYOR G. EDWARD BRADLEY OF SOMERVILLE
JANUARY 6, 1947
The communities of Massachusetts stand at the brink of disaster. The real estate owners of all these communities are confronted with an increased cost of government which can spell for them the actual confiscation of their property. Somer- ville-our city-is not one of the few fortunate exceptions.
All of the facts which we now have available indicate that the average home owner will pay this year as his proportional share of the cost of his municipal government, at least $45.00 more than he paid in 1946. Increased state, county and other assessments which can be anticipated, but not at the present time definite, may raise this figure to $10.00 to $15.00 more.
This is the approach, our bleak approach to the year 1947.
This is a fact which must be stated bluntly. It is a fact that cannot be escaped by any act of ours. It is a condition which we could not have prevented, and which we cannot evade, so long as archaic tax laws compel the owners of real estate to shoulder the greatest part of the cost of municipal government and a large part of the cost of state government.
Increased wages for city employees, and for the employees of the school department have expanded our salary accounts by approximately $700,000. Mounting costs of old age assist- ance, aid to dependent children, and soldiers' aid and pensions
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will account for $150,000. more which we must provide in 1947 above our expenditures of last year. These items alone, based on our present real estate and personal property valuation, rep- resent an increased cost to each property owner of $7.20 per thousand.
We have little to offset these necessary increases in the cost of government.
The consolidation of various departments could be effected, but would result in no substantial savings, and might lead to inefficiency. A solution does not lie in the discharge of em- ployees, particularly with several departments undermanned as they are today. Nor could we curtail even one function of our municipal system provided by any city department. Neither is the city exempt from moral responsibility to pro- vide for its employees a wage consistent with the duties they perform and sufficient to meet their living expenses.
Beyond these already established increases in the cost of government is the obvious necessity of renewing the equipment in several departments,-specifically, sanitary, sewer and high- way -; the construction of several new school buildings; and costly modernization work in other school buildings. To ac- complish this, real co-operation must exist between both the executive and the legislative branches of government.
And by real co-operation, I do not mean such procrasti- nated consideration and ultimate rejection of executive recom- mendations as characterized 1946. when a definite program which provided for the purchase of an entire new fleet of san- itary trucks, for new snow fighting, snow removal and street cleaning equipment, for essential fire apparatus, and for the resurfacing of approximately 40 streets was allowed to die by your honorable board despite the obvious fact that the elimina- tion of truck hire in the sanitary and highway departments. and the cost of repairing 15-year-old trucks would have saved our city over $100,000. annually above the cost of the new equip- nient. This lack of foresight and unreasonable opposition must be eliminated if we are to progress. I welcome sincere and honorable opposition: I do not claim infallibility or perfec- tion, but I do raise my voice against the evasive device of bury- ing executive recommendations in committee where they can receive neither consideration, support nor open and construc-
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tive criticism from the entire membership of the aldermanic board.
To those members who, during the past year, have endeav- ored sincerely to improve their community, who have co-oper- ated to the end that Somerville might be a better city, I want to express my personal gratitude, and the thanks of all of the people of Somerville.
We must provide for essential requirements, despite the fact, that the required expenditure may be reflected in an additional tax burden upon only one group of our citizens- the property owners.
We face a situation made to order for the carping critics and the demagogue, but a situation that cannot be remedied under existing laws, by this or any other community of our entire commonwealth.
The cost of government is increasing, and cannot be sub- stantially reduced. This is a fact generally recognized and in- disputable. The complexities of modern civilization constantly demand more in the way of services and protection from govern- ment, and these additional requirements must be paid for.
The situation in our school system differs only in degree from that of every school system in our commonwealth and nation. Despite the apparent attempt by a few to build polit- ical implications in present differences between the school committee and the city government, these do not exist. We do not contemplate usurping any of the powers of the school committee. We recognize their authority in the field of educa- tion. We wonder why the per capita cost of education in Som- erville should be so much greater than that of comparable com- munities, but we are cognizant of the fact that, under exist- ing laws, they are supreme in their own domain.
I am not in conflict with them in their opinion that teach- ers are underpaid, no more than I was in conflict with other city employees. I did not agree that the increases granted should have been as great as they were in some instances. and I want to pay particular tribute to those School Committee members, Vice-Chairman William J. Shea of Ward 5, Joseph J. Galvin of Ward 3, and last year's Aldermanic President,
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James F. Hall, who, with thought for the taxpayers as well. as for the teachers, opposed the excessively high increases granted by the majority.
The School Committee, under the law, has supreme author- ity to spend as it sees fit. I believe, however, that it should be. willing to assume that responsibility publicly, and should not hesitate to acquaint each property owner with the cost of edu- cation. It can accomplish this by requesting legislative ap- proval of an act authorizing it to send out separate tax bills to each taxpayer for the cost of education. If that bill is filed by the School Committee, I will support it.
I am pleased to see that the State Federation of Teachers in their recent communication to the legislature, have carried out recommendations that I made to Somerville's teachers when I advised them to find sources of additional revenue to provide for increased salaries.
The plight of the property owner-the fellow who foots the bills-can be best illustrated with a concrete example.
Twenty years ago the owner of a $10,000. two-family house received as income $1,200. annually and paid in taxes $280.00 or 23%. In 1947 his income will approximate $840 .- $360. less -and his taxes will amount to approximately $400. or 47% of income. This is equivalent to confiscation or destruction.
The Joint Legislative Committee of the Massachusetts Mayor's and Selectmen's Association-of which I am a member -has formulated a program for presentation to the Legisla- ture, under which $20,000,000. would be distributed to the various communities of the commonwealth, and the unjust state tax on the communities eliminated. This program de- serves the support of all who are concerned with the present financial condition of municipalities.
I recommend this program to your honorable board for study, in the hope that you will communicate your favorable action on it to the state legislature.
The question of a sales tax to enable the state to eliminate its own deficit, and to provide greater assistance for the com -- inunities of our commonwealth has been brought before our
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state legislature. This tax, with exemptions for necessities of life, would bring $40,000,000. in additional revenue, largely from individuals who partake of all the services of government and pay little for the maintenance of those services. Opposi- tion to it in the past has been propogated mainly by a small group of retail merchants. The acceptance by the legislature and the enactment into law of the recommendations of the Mayors' Association and a 2% sales tax will enable the com- munities to reduce their tax rates to an average of approx- imately $30. per thousand. There is no other remedy; no nos- trum or panacea; no alternative to constantly soaring tax rates.
I therefore, recommend to you for study, in the hope that it, too, will receive your favorable recommendation to the state legislature, a 2% sales tax on all but the necessities of life.
Veteran housing is still a subject of which we have talked a great deal but accomplished little. A proposal which would have provided temporary homes for 100 families of veterans in Somerville was defeated in 1946 by your honorable board.
As I see it, an end must be made to the unfair practice of demanding that a family which requires shelter must purchase. Newly married couples should be given an opportunity to es- tablish themselves before they assume the responsibilities of home ownership. The guarantees of the G. I. Bill of Rights has been so warped by selfish individuals as to place a weight on the back of the young married veteran from which he will not be freed for twenty years. He, - of the vast majority - isn't interested in buying, he wants to rent, at least until he's secure in his job and knows that real estate costs have sta- bilized. He should not be compelled to buy in an inflated mar- ket at a great sacrifice in order to provide shelter for his young family.
When your board defeated my recommendations for tem- porary housing, the majority expressed a desire to provide permanent construction. I will, therefore, in the near future, send to you a request for approval of a 5-year bond issue suf- ficient to provide approximately 100 apartments for rent to veterans, under the supervision of the Housing Authority, in an apartment house development to be erected on land at the rear of the Contagious Hospital, recently transferred to the Housing Authority by your honorable board. I look forward to immediate favorable action on this matter.
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Tonight, at this, the organization of the Somerville city government for the year 1947, we begin a difficult and trying year. Our problem must be approached impassionately, sin- cerely and with courage, and with a fervent prayer for spirit- ual guidance from the Divine Master of the Universe.
Respectfully submitted,
G. EDWARD BRADLEY,
Mayor.
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CITY AUDITOR
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR
Office of the City Auditor, January 31, 1947
To the Honorable, the Mayor, and the Board of Aldermen of the City of Somerville,
Gentlemen :-
In accordance with the requirements of Chapter 7, Section 3 of the Revised Ordinances of 1929, I herewith submit a re- port of the expenditures and receipts during the year 1946, as shown by the records in this office, giving in detail the appro- priations, expenditures and the receipts from each source of income. Also a statement of the funded debt and temporary loans, table relative to maturities and interest, a balance sheet showing the assets and liabilities at the close of the fiscal year and a statement of the treasurer's cash.
Respectfully submitted,
FRANCIS MACDONALD, City Auditor
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I hereby Certify that I have verified the Treasurer's cash as of December 31, 1946, by actual count, and have verified by reconciliation of the bank accounts the amounts on deposit in the banks as of the same date.
The total cash balance December 31, 1946 was $796,587.61 as follows :
Somerville National Bank
$335,346.26
Somerville National Bank-Welfare
6,924.11
First National Bank
7,732.39
Second National Bank
113,704.76
United States Trust Co.
10,000.00
Merchants National Bank
92,016.53
Webster and Atlas National Bank
75,223.26
National Shawmut Bank
22,963.93
Somerville Trust Co. (Benefits)
4,282.06
Somerville Trust Co. (Teachers)
127,894.31
Cash in Office
500.00
$796,587.61
I further Certify that I have examined the Trust Fund Securities in the hands of the City Treasurer and find them to be correct, as follows :
Charles M. Berry Fund, Contagious Hospital
$1,000.00
S. Newton Cutler School Fund
5,323.40
Caroline G. Baker Fund, School
300.00
Sarah Winslow Fox Fund, School
401.38
J. Frank Wellington Fund, School
2,000.00
Arthur A. Smith Fund
2,500.00
Buffum Memorial Book Fund, Library
1,000.00
Eunice M. Gilmore Fund, Library
2,000.00
Thomas J. Buffum Fund, Library
1,515.00
J. Frank Wellington Fund, Library
4,000.00
Edward C. Booth Fund, Library
3,000.00
Arthur A. Smith Fund, Library
5,029.40
S. Newton Cutler Fund, Library
1,067.73
Martha R. Hunt Fund, Book, Library
14,105.25
Martha R. Hunt Fund, Art, Library
1,299.77
Isaac Pitman Art Fund, Library
4,689.10
Isaac Pitman Poetry Fund, Library
1,172.28
Francis A. Wilder Children's Fund, Library ..
100.00
Sarah Lorane Graves Fund, Library
400.00
Olive C. Cummings Fund, Welfare 1,751.45
Mary A. Haley Fund, Recreation
3,645.76
$56,300.52
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And the Following Invested Funds :
Municipal Buildings Insurance Fund $17,764.15 Retirement System (Cash and Securities) ...... 817,908.82
$835,672.97
FRANCIS MACDONALD,
City Auditor
December 31st, 1946
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BALANCE SHEET, DECEMBER 31, 1946 Revenue Accounts
Assets
Liabilities
Cash:
In Offices and Banks ....... $787,821.84
787,821.84
Temporary Loans, 1946
400,000.00
Accounts Receivable :
School Deposits
629.46
Taxes, 1944
3,732.37
Taxes, 1945
6,742.61
Taxes, 1946
330,457.02
Unexpended Balances : Revenue Appropriations Income of Trust Funds
4,837.60
Blue Cross Deductions
7,587.15
Tax Titles
123,363.86
Tax Possessions
23,404.01
Motor Vehicle Excise Tax, 1943
21.74
Motor Vehicle Excise Tax, 1944
1,683.31
Motor Vehicle Excise Tax, 1945 2,060.25
Motor Vehicle Excise Tax, 1946
18,657.84
Reimbursements, Aid Depend- ent Children
45.00
C. of M. State Taxes and As- sessments 1941
117,603.40
Departmental Bills Receivable:
Health Department
3,371.76
Contagious Hospital
33,996.63
Inspection Milk and Vinegar 295.00
3,753.30
Highway Department 16.50
28.20
Welfare Miscellaneous
17,120.37
Old Age Assistance
4,317.01
Smith-Hughes Fund
1,128.81
City Home
1,980.43
George-Deen Fund
1,445.24
School Contingent
7,813.30
State Aid
1,640.00
Premiums on Bonds 440.65
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Cash Variations
Tailings
$745.34 2,770.68
..
City Clerk's Deposits
458.25
235,512.07
340,932.00
Pay Roll Deductions for Pur- chase of Savings Bonds 1,127.00 ... Federal Tax Withholding 76,584.32 Reimbursements, Old Age As- sistance 841.16
22,423.14
C. of M. State Taxes and As- sessments 1942
65,628.02
C. of M .- Legal Expenses-Bos- ton Elevated Railway Co.
County, Dog Licenses
BALANCE SHEET-Continued
Assets
Liabilities
Military Aid
2,001.13
Revenue Reserved until Collected :
Soldiers' Relief
35.00
Departmental
75,075.88
Water
52,949.76
Tax Titles
123,363.86
Tax Possession
23,404.01
75,075.88
Motor Vehicle Excise
22,423.14
Water Department Accounts ..
52,949.76
128,025.64
C. of M. State Taxes and As- sessments, 1946
22,070.62
County Tax, 1946
2,341.13
Revenue 1947
30,415.19
Overlay 1931
50.62
Reserve Fund, Surplus Overlay
20.00
Overlay 1932
57.52
Overlay 1933
58.12
Overlay 1934
58.20
Excess and Deficiency
191,908.67
Overlay
1935
57.90
Overlay
1936
297.91
Overlay 1937
431.19
Overlay 1938
665.95
Overlay
1939
351.90
Overlay 1940
310.15
Overlay 1941
237.45
Overlay 1942
164.50
Overlay 1943
330.23
Overlay
1944
10,444.88
Overlay 1945
10,568.18
$1,504,882.13
1,504,882.13
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Soldiers' Burials
50.00
War Allowance
2,438.75
297,216.65
Sale of Real Estate
18,782.38
Overlay 1946
75,788.78
NON-REVENUE ACCOUNTS
Cash in Offices and Banks ..... State and County Aid to High- ways
8,765.77
Non-Revenue Appropriations ..
8,765.77 State and County Highway
Revenue
16,084.89
24,850.66
24,850.66
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662,000.00
Loans outside statutory debt limit:
Police Station Loan 15,000.00
Municipal Relief Loan 1,088,000.00
P. W. A. Sewer Loan 18,000.00
P. W. A. Water Main Loan .. 6,000.00
P. W. A. School Loan
120,000.00
Chapter 44-Water Main Loan
135,000.00
15,000.00
Emergency Storm Loan ........ Civilian Defense Loan-Chap. 487, Acts 1941 10,000.00
1,407,000.00
2,069,000.00
Net Bonded Debt
2,069,000.00
NET FUNDED or FIXED DEBT
Loans within statutory debt limit:
Bridge Loan
3,000.00
High School Loan 72,000.00
Junior High School Loan 176,000.00
Garage Loạn 12,000.00
Chapter 44-Sewer Loan 164,000.00
Municipal Relief Loan
.. 235,000.00
ANNUAL REPORTS
2,069,000.00
16,084.89
TRUST AND INVESTED FUNDS
Trust Funds:
Trust Funds : Cash and Securities
56,300.52
Contagious Hospital
1,000.00
School Funds
10,523.60
Library Funds
39,379.71
Investment Funds:
Welfare Funds
1,751.45
Cash and Securities
856,004.00
Recreation Funds
3,645.76
Invested Funds:
· Municipal Buildings Insur-
ance Fund
17,640.77
Retirement System Funds
4% and 5%
838,363.23
912,304.52
912,304.52
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CASH STATEMENT-DECEMBER 31, 1946 REVENUE Receipts
General:
Taxes $4,877,186.50
Motor Vehicle Excise
100,820.63
C. of M. Corporation Tax
271,171.07
C. of M. Income Tax
509,456.12
C. of M. Highway Fund
73,327.79
C. of M. Tax Title Interest Refund
82.18
C. of M. Meal Tax
24,760.11
C. of M. In Lieu of Taxes
128.82
C. of M. Boxing Commission
302.56
Licenses and Permits
118,890.06
Fines and Forfeits
6,162.50
Grants and Gifts
427,394.99
Tax Titles Redeemed
42,993.22
Income, Foreclosed Property
400.00
Sale of Real Estate
10,100.00
Tax Possessions
1,050.00
6,464,226.55
Departmental:
General Government
10,008.08
Protection Persons and Property
3,860.95
Health and Sanitation
25,802.33
Highway
918.50
Welfare
30,028.14
Aid Dependent Children
62,553.09
City Home
6,985.75
Old Age Assistance
359,978.68
Soldiers' Benefits
10,860.37
Schools and School Buildings
11,506.93.
Recreation
587.35
Retirement Deductions
58,141.61
Teachers' Retirement Deductions
63,037.02
Libraries
3,381.23
Tailings
33.55
Federal Tax Withholding
291,404.21
Payroll Deductions for the Purchase of Sav- ings Bonds
8,521.25
Blue Cross Deductions
20,411.00
All Other
500.00
968,520.04
Water Department Accounts
527,519.09
Premiums on Bonds
1,034.00
Accrued Interest ..
450.42
Interest on Taxes, etc.
9,732.50
Trust Fund Income
798.98
Refunds
9,107.83
Deposits
8,100.28
Temporary Loans
3,000,000.00
Municipal Relief Loan
235,000.00
3,791,743.10
Total Receipts 1946 to date Cash Balance January 1, 1946
11,224,489.69
651,912.00
11,876,401.69
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Payments
Appropriations
$6,171,995.95
Interest
61,793.32
Reduction Funded Debt
616,000.00
Temporary Loans
3,000,000.00
Retirement Deductions
58,132.55
Payroll Deductions for Savings Bonds
8,666.75
Refunds
67,858.75
Tailings
9.46
Blue Cross Deductions
16,317.30
City Clerk's Deposits
762.25
Water Deposits
1,239.53
Highway Deposits
870.00
Federal Grant, Hot Lunch Project
3,081.47
Federal Tax Withholding
303,566.70
Teachers' Retirement Deductions
63,046.08
Income Trust Funds
1,447.52
School Deposits
225.00
Reimbursements, Aid Dependent Children
168.33
State Taxes and Assessments
438,365.61
County Assessment, T. B. Hospital
65,131.26
Health-Bottling Licenses
40.00
County, Dog Licenses
5,379.00
George-Deen Fund
2,264.98
Court Judgment
1,415.45
Premiums on Bonds
593.35
County Tax 1946
176,716.84
Smith Hughes Fund
5,492.40
Total Payments 1946 to date
Cash on hand December 31, 1946
11,070,579.85 787,821.84
Transfer to Non-Revenue
18,000.00
11,876,401.69
CASH STATEMENT-DECEMBER 31, 1946 NON-REVENUE
Receipts
Federal Grants, Post War Projects 17,500.00
State and County Aid-Chapter 90, Highway .. 27,493.52
44,993.52
Balance at beginning of period
5,114.72
Transfer from Revenue
18,000.00
68,108.24
CASH STATEMENT-DECEMBER 31, 1946 Payments
Appropriations 59,342.47
Total Payments
59,342.47
Cash on Hand
8,765.77
68,108.24
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Summary
Total Revenue Receipts 11,224,489.69 44,993.52
Total Non-Revenue Receipts
11,269,483.21
Total balance at beginning of period
657,026.72
11,926,509.93
Total Revenue Payments
11,070,579.85
Total Non-Revenue Payments
59,342.47
11,129,922.32
Total balance on hand
796,587.61
11,926,509.93
STATEMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS 1946 (REVENUE)
Appropria- Appropria+
Balance from
Appropria- tions
from From
Transfers TO
$1,145,00
$4.03
$12,449.03 6,833.98
$12.2[:3.66 6,822.28
Executive
2.00
22,144,56
401.00
-165.24
37.50
34.67
22,283.02
22,269.68
Auditing
153.34
17,170.88
3,200.00
30.6
160.92 600.00
17.489.04
17,470.10
7.40
6.1.
Assessors
40,277.58
1.000.00
193.70
41,471.28
41,337.76
133.52
Pedlers License Commu. Licensing Commission
8,115.00
250.00
26.00
3,391.00
3.390.95
.05
Certification of Notes and Bonds .
City Clerk
9.40
1.500.00 20,261.41
712.00. 100.00.
42,500.00
42,600.00
42,500.00
Lund Court Proceedings on Tox Titles and Recording Fees
364.14
800.00
5.50
26.00
1.169.64 6,505.83
₲00.42 6,565.83
542.17
27.0
City Messenger
City Engineer
165.35
17.343.71
3,000.00
3,068.03
225.02
24.475.45
24,427.30
120.97
34.03
Board of Appeal
2.266.00
220.00
2,456.00
2.462.40
23.60
Board of Election Cominrs.
20,320.00
485.00
11.56
125.40
20,941.96
20,922.56
19.40
Pay of Election Officers ...
9,076.00
600.00
9,676.00
9,075.00
1.00
Total General Government
1,474.31
275,966.80
4,213.00
62,933.27
93.7
1,759.49
328,013.61
325,193,38
861.72
1,958.51
Protection Persons and Property:
Police Department
Fire Department
655.35
424.132.51 505,342,22
17,491.66 12,500.35
42,500.00
564.75
5,547.40 6,595.81 85.20
412,188.05 543,157.78
411,266.11 199,840.25
42,373.50
935.03
Weights and Measures
9,300.00
73,937.15
1,065.77
712,50
76,489.87
67,110.60
8,734.17
645.10
Suppression Moths and Care
of Trees
9,071.66
Rifle Practice
134.91
900.00
300.00
200.00
1,605.50
1,527.01
78.49
Total Protection Persons aud Property
2,670.21
1,022,983.44
29,992.21
42,700.00
1,663.84
12,940.91 1,052,965.69
998,580.68
51,377.65
3,007.36
Health and Sanitation:
Health Departnient
505.50
56,272.19
1,610.00
45.0
206.65
65,419.34 1,475.00 29.406.35
63,644.45
7$8.10
986.79
Vital Statistics ....
1,250.00
225.00
2.31
802.11
10,113.83
9,949,49 6.206.02
62.3
181.09
Division Dental Hygiene ....
16,845:00
140.00
50.00
116.64
9,041.64
9,007.19
Sewers Maintenance
31,660.64
40,310.72
1,500.00
8.125.00
356.80
78,953,16
70,535.60
7,361.07
1,056.49
Sanitary Department
136.50
327,300.73
3,371.88
$1.228.90
3,523.96
108,818.31 39,033.44
30,765.05
5,100.00
168.39
Total Health and Sanitation
32,326.88
524,265.69
9,031.88
103,294.90
2.31
4.557.79
655,417.39
597,176.87
54,301.44
3,939.08
Highways:
Highway and Sidewalks Main" dance
150,031.07
3,547.76
27,325.00
2,338.66
176,146.98
174,293.18
175.00
1,678.80
Reimbursement - Damage Settlement
20,000.00
20,500.00
7.20
40,607.20
18,577.84
21,914.36
15.00
Street Lighting
681.42 492.05
6.056.50
180.00
854.95
540.66
Total Highways
1,173.47
267,505.87
3.727.75
52,379.41
7.20
2,338.66
319,076.86
293,070.40
22,944.31
3,662,15
Welfare:
Welfare Miscellaneous ...
2,347.97
122,137.64
4,244,47
70,000.00
3,619.03
501.59
194,361.76
184,142.24
5.004.71
6,214.81
Aid Dependent Children
1,312.70
132,533.02
15,512.70
65,000.00
2,110,63
152.71
174,596.36
172,825.38
50.00
1,720.98
Federal
Grant, Ald De
74.43
Federal Grant, Ald De- pendent Children, Asst.
55.00
453,887.00
128.200.00
3,084.95
562.36
585.789.31
584,625.37
119.50
1,044.44
Federal Grant, Old Age As- sistance, Adm.
10,724.63
10,724.63
10,724.63
Federal Grant, Old Age As- sistance
1,189.50
23,851.58
25.00
92.99
319,349,75 23,969.57
319,349.76 23,759.40
8.75
201.42
Total Welfare
4,979.60
732,409.24
20,757.17
253,200.00
387,608.02
1,309.65
1,358,749.34 1,345,062.26
5,182.96
8,504.12
Veterans" Services:
3,368.96
73,932.86
2,918.96
1,837.76
529,42
76,750.04
73,218.24
2,609.82
921.98
Total Veterans' Services
3,365.96
73,932.86
2,918.96
1,837.76
529.42
76,750.04
73,218.24
2,609.82
921.98
Education:
School Contingent
17.58
$8,700.00
2,508.39
Outside Tuition
4,000.00
15,000.00
120.00
1,354,816.56 1,339,208.88
45,607.66
Hot Lunch Project
1,293.21
2,500.00
4,176.54
3,180.80
11,149.55
10,238.65
910.90
Janitors' Salaries
134,920.00
7,127,71
2,119.24
144,156.95
144,149.06
17.89
Fuel and Light
158.08
$0,500.00
$0,449,33
197.60
12.15
Bulldings and Grounds
36.00
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