EASTBOURNE. ESTIMATES FOR THE YEAR.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 145, 21 June 1909, Page 2

EASTBOURNE. ESTIMATES FOR THE YEAR.

A special meeting of the Eastbourne Borougn Council was held lit Rona Bay on Saturday. There were present Mr. J." Ban- (Mayor), Councillors Foley, Mackenzie, Organ, Robertson, Ross, Russell, Sanson, and Wills. The council considered the report of the sub-committee on sanitation, which was adopted. It was resolved to cancel the present sanitary contract, and to provide tor the cost of sanitation out of general fund, say £25, and partly by an annual fee of 10s, 6ubject to reduction to 1,1 °mm s u3u 3 are uno ccupiod for six months. The present sanitary contractor is to be offered £4 per week for sanitary, lighting and rubbish removal services, together with dray work necessary to complete employment. The Bylaws Committee was directed 1o draft a sanitary bylaw, embodying the recommendations of the sanitary sub-committee. The estimates for the joar were considered, and after amendment were adopted as follow: — Expenditure— Hospital and charitable aid, ±,97 18b. GenGr.il account: Maintenance, £300; sanitation, £100; footpaths and public works, £150: lamps installation £60; contribution IIIIU pipe brid-e £112 10s; artesian water tests, £75; lighting, £&0 ; interest No. 1 loaif account £23 6s 6d : sinking fund account, ±^U; administration, miscellaneous, and contingencies, £179 Is 8d ; total, £1079 18s Receipts— Hospital and charitable aid rate of 9-64 of a penny in the £ on the capital value of £168,196, £98 11s. General account : Credit balance brought forward, £179 15s 8d; general rate of li of a penny in the £ on the unimproved value of £108,820, £680 2s 6d ; an annual sanitary fee of 10s estimated to produce £75; Government subsidy, £120; fees, miscellaneous, £25; total, £1079 18s 2d. It was decided to confirm the above rates at a special meeting to be held at the Town Clerk's office on 7th July. The council resolved to levy the special rate on account of a loan of £4,500 raised last year, and amounting to £d in the £1 on unimproved value.