The Finance Commission of the City of Boston, Vol. 14

Download or read book The Finance Commission of the City of Boston, Vol. 14 written by Boston Finance Commission and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Finance Commission of the City of Boston, Vol. 14: Reports and Communications The finance commission opposed the mayor's bill for a $3 increase in the tax limit, arguing that with the introduction of economies in the city's administration an increase of would be all that was needed. The mayor insisted upon his request and the legislation was passed, granting $1 for street repair improvements and $2 for general municipal purposes. That the $1 for street improvement was not necessary, as the commis sion stated, is borne out by the fact that Of the appropriated for street improvements, the value of the work done this year, as stated on December 30, 1918, will be approximately and that 385 will remain unexpended, although contracted for. Thus this latter sum was unnecessarily appropriated, the tax rate was unnecessarily raised, and the money remained unexpended although contracts had been made at the extraordinarily high prices of last year, and the work will not be done until next year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.