Tax Increase Voted To Pay Club Debts (PBP) 10-21-641mM1*11 HI*ke
l)ectaring no one ever `n70n a
nopularity contest
by speaking t
for more taxes, May Beery
said he favored one mill for as
provedPaving
manv years as necessary. 1
off the debt 1��ith a 2 -
vear bond issue or during a
five -Year period would mean
3m2
'
M.arginResidents
,
much More interest, lie said.
will vote on a bond
issue in November. One item
iwould
NORTH BEACH —
authorize bonds t
.o wipe
.PALM
The village council voted 3-2
out the country club debt.
Tuesday night to increase taxes
Churchill said he favored de•
one mill in order to pay off
creasing the debt by a larger J
$100,000 in back debts on the
amount than the $20,000 provid- -fi
North Palm Beach Country
ed in the original budget. a
Club.
Lewis pointed out the millage c,'
The village bought the coun-
recently annexed stores and re- T
try club in 1961.
sidents and said it was unjust to r,
The tax increase was autho- I
raise their. taxes. He also said tj
he thought paying off a debt
rized at a meeting in which not
that began years ago during a t)
one member of the capacity
p . Y
� l one-year period- was not good I
audience spoke in favor of hi-
r business thinking. e
gher taxes.
The working man who lives in
Mayor Harold W. Beery and
North Palm Beach can't afford �
Councilmen Herbert A. Watt
L a tax hike at this time, Bell
and .Lesley Churchill voted for
said. He pointed out that the
the increase to 10 mills. Vice
� -village had taken in new resi-
Mayor Thomas F. Lewis and
Councilman Thomas Bell oppos-
s dents and now wants to raise
ed it — as they had at last
their taxes.
weeks' 2-2 deadlock vote.
>f Marshall Benjamin, head
Churchill was out of town du-
master of the recently annexed
ring last week's meeting.
North Palm Beach Private
The budget already included a
School, said he didn't agree with
$20, 000 item for payment toward
.
the tax hike, but he lauded the
the $100,000 debt, and the in-
Cre"'aCed millage will enable the
three councilmen backing it for
villa to pay at least $53,000
their courage in the farce of
dining the fiscal year that be-
opposition.
gins Nov. 1. Hope was express-
el
After the final vote -there were
cad that the tax increase can be
of
'additional .comments from the'
dripped after one year. ie
audience.
The mayor said after ' the
meet?.ng that the tax hike will
Df
if
j
One resident said he was
cost most of the persons in the
s going to court to see whether his
�
audience who opposed it from
pp $8
tax money which went to -the
to $10 a year.
countryclub was bbeing spent
`
Immediately after the budget,
f legally, another 'Suggested tur-
with the higher tax rate, was
adopted Lewis moved that alloc-
ning the country club into a
i
ations be spent only for items
town hall and selling
b the town
for JN-bich. they were budgeted.
t hall and a third complained . a
,His
resolution was 'adopted una- .,.
boy scout troop was requested
nimousl Y•
- to pay $5 an hour for use of a
There were two votes last 1
' country club room.
night on the budget. The first t
Council gave approval to fwn
_ rate
proposal was to keep the tax
at nine mills and pay offs
developers
r's who plan a groan of'.
the
debt over a five-year period. c
hornes and an apartment bu.il-
J
_ Sponsored
by Lewis and Pell, it it
ding complex -on U.S. I at the
was defeated. d
; south end of the village.
Saying he represented a majo- t<
.t .rity
of residents at the meeting,
b
Paul Emond said the village
should
sell the country club or r
scale-
rates down to where all F
residents
.can use it. s
"Tt'r getting to the point
u,
where the millage increase will
I
chase
everybody out and we'll
have
a ghost town on our
; f
hands,"
he contended.
1
When the mayor asked if an-
volle
in the audience cared to
speak
for increasing taxes, he
t
was greeted with laughter.
�
tax
Watt suggested the one -mill
increase. Last week he had
proposed
raising taxes two mills
i
to
clear up the debt in one year.
He
Paid last night here is a
]
Possibility
that in a year the tax
roll
�x�jll '�'rnW Pnot��-�. t� drnn
f1le
nrP mill and still wipe out
f
the
debt In two ,years.