1 - Ivan Allen, Jr. Digital Collection - Georgia Institute of Technology

COatll1oed From Page 1AWoodward e~ressed(ether the Idditional $a mlllionIt I later time.'!be rate hike repb.ces withrevenue from other sourcesthe I~mately $I millionin tax. collections the scboolboard will lose because of thenew $5.0"0 homeStead exemptlOILAltbougb thert previ.ously had been 1$1,000exemption. it didn't apply to5Cboo1 taxes. The $5,000ex.emption does.Raymer and Bates toldboou'd members the board al·ready bad agreed in principleto raise the millage to thelevel needed to recoup lossesfrom the new homesteadexemptionBut llOme board membersdidn't agree that the hike wasmady a fore~ne conclusion.At the afternoon briefingsession of the board, Mrs. A!1Oconslderableopposition to what shecltllrly labeled as 8 "tax incrtese."other board me~betS cootended that since hdlan't raise the. tota] revenues~\ected it couIdn·t really becalled an increase.J-tead of raisilll the mil·lagt, Mrs. Woodward said at~ afternoon meeting, "I sugg8l1we trim" the nwnber ofadministrators in the schoolsystem "in half at least."Joining her In arguing formtbacks in staffing we r erepresentative!! ol the AtlantaFederation (j Teachers (AF1')and the Atlanta AssocIation ofEducators (AAE).City CoWlCiI Monday 1'&jected Mayor Maynard Jack·IOn'S three mlll, $6.2 milliontax increase request on an 11-7 vote and rejected a 2.04 mlllcompromise proposaJ. on a 11).8--But a special council me«.-Ing .... "as called fot next MODday.Councilman Q. V. Wil­Uam.son, who is viewed as anInftrmal floor leader for themayor. was confident he couldswing enough wtes to get approvalof the 2.04 mill measure.and perhaps of themayor's three mill measure.That would mean an 1&cnased tax ra~ of even morethan 10.4 per cent.'!be Council Monday approvedonly one Of a slew ofbudget-related measures, thenet ef'fect being a 54 millioncloud d red Ink over nextyear's spending planS.At this point in the budget·writil}8 process, the tentativespending plan stands at $811.5million, while expected revenuesamount to only $84.5 million.Unci« the stringent 1937budget laws, the council mustadopt a balanced bud~:!t. Thatmean! It must close the $4million gap either by cuttings«vioes or by raising morereverrues, perhaps from taxesor garbage c::oIlection fees..The council has until lateFebruary to finaJly adopt the1£r15 budget. But the budgetwritingprocess Is made up ol a companion to the onct-de- reduce costs along with enroll·many small steps, and most feated Dve-day lay-off. men! reductions, Yancey said.obs«vers expeded final ae- H ___ ~ ~,and .....- -A James OWlZn. UlW' ........\ion on taxation any w.y to cut """-In-~ t VI..,money-raising measures at nance to give a US per ~ eluding the approximately $2nen Monday's special council pay raise to workers eanung mimoD In Interest it costs theless than $8,000 a year. How- board to borrOW the moneymeeting.ani asserted that the $1.1 mil· w--_u .. to eliminate the need'n1e gap had been smaller, ......,,,) -"d .. funded -bI.t on Monday the council de- lion pl'Ol"' __ !,.VU.l for annual loans and gettingfealed on a HI.8 vote a by dipping into a reserve for the budgeting proces.~ on__., ~'ch .. u1d have my Hall expansion, firmer ground, Yancey said.t'"~ ",II,I-A Panke BradleY proposalsaved an estimated $1.25 mil- to raise garbage rates by 30 Raymer explained. that theUon by fordng city employes per cent, rather than the de- boord already plans to lopto take off five days without feated 62 per cent. about $5 million off the cur·pay next year. By the time of the regularly rent $109 mlliion budget andTte council defeated on a scheduled meeting of the 0 per a I e on a maximumvoice vote a Richard Guthman Atlanta Board of Education budget of $IM million nextproposal to raise garbage col· Monday night, there appal'· year. But If the millage ",;erelecUonrates by 62 per cent. It ently was at least a chancen't Increased, he said, the sysdefeatedon a 10-6 vote a that the miUage Increase tern would have to drop backGeorge Cotsakls resolution mlght be defeated. to a $96 million hudget, andwhich would have asked the Male members of the board that such a $13 million c:utmayorto "eradicate" the nine -Raymer, Chainnan Benja- b a c k In times of inflatIOncommlssioners created In the min Mays, and Dr. Asa would be nearly impossible.reocganization ordi.nanoe 0( a Yancey-hllddled with~. In '"dition to the reductionfew months ago. Alonzo Crim and Bates bl!hiOO'..... the SY'"The $88.5 million spending closed doors, delaying the of next year's bUd.,&tt, .plan was propounded by the start of the meeting by more t e m is anemptLII( to ~may", _ al .. pro~ the about $6 million from~ than m minutes. yo,,'. e----litures so it canthree-mlll tax increase to help When the meeting finally AI""'.... sb to prefUndit. did convene, Mays said the ~t ,e _':""", ~ crisis oatBy reJecting the three-miU group had been meeting about ..... .....meaSU'e and all the other "difficult, involved problems" fall.budget. related proposals, the which they hadn't been able to 'I1le 0VfI'-.aIl problem is thatcouncil. 1St It.sell with the $4 res(Me. the school year aDd the taJ:mlillongap. However, a compromise year don't matc.h up. '!U:Scheduled for reconsidera· apparently was reached. Dr. lectlons come In dW1J1itlon at the Monday meeting Yancey, objecting In principle fall, "While the budget ~are the aPPrOVed UN mill tax to the repeated bolTOwing of begins In July. secause tbtIncrease and the defeated the schoo1 board, amended tM borrowln, In past years.five-«iay layoff ~al. millage lncrease motion to greatest portion of the r::Three other budget·related provide for lhe creation of a nues each year mustar'~ loan,I1"\e&SI.1reS w ere introduced reserve fund which eventually to payoff the last ye 'tatelMonday and will presumably would be able to alleviate the w hie h the n nece&Slget tome consideration next annual loans. another loan.week. While asldng taxpayen for is theThey 1ft: a "finn commitment" In the Especially necessary scmoI-A Guthman proposal to fonn of the millage Increase. money to operate the t SeP'request elected officials to the school board was giving system in July, AU~~i1 ~tum back about. 2 per cent of taxpaye-s 0 n I y a "vague, tember and October.their salaries to the city. It is ambiguous commitment" to tax coUedions come III------ -----~''The)-.. W-peoIt,FC• G".,Cf.P'I" b,hu"