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GREENBELT NEWS REVIEW November 18 195
ATTICK from page 2
Buddy was a member of the
Community Church and the Senior
High Fellowship is providing a
church camp scholarship each year
in his memory. The College Age
Class, of which Buddy was vice
president, will plant a tree on the
church grounds in his memory.
At Northwestern High School
the Buddy Attick Memorial Tro-
. GCA BUDGET COMMITTEE ANALYZES 1955 CITY BUDGET
The Greenbelt Citizens Association meets at Center School tonight at 8 p.m. to discuss the city budget in to attempt to pre
pare for Monday nights open hearing of the City Council.
The News Review presents in this issue some data from the GCA budget committee because of widespread interest in the budget.
Albert Herling, co-chairman of the committee warns that the figures given are not exact and are at best rough approximations
to he used for comparison purposes only.
After working for some weeks on this budget no one knows better than our committees how complicated a problem a
community’s tax structure tod budget really is. However, our committee felt that even though we are not experts, some at
tempt at equating budget savings with tax savings should be made. In that way, citizens can decide for themselves which one
of the various proposals best serves the community as a whole,” he said. Herling was assisted by Mrs. Helen Dondy in the prep
aration of the budget analysis below.
TABLE I
Effects of Suggested Reductions in the Budget from Total 1955 Budget. All of $331,624.00
Suggested Effect on*
Department Reduction Tax Rate Effect on Service
Executive SIOO -$.0013 minor saving - no effect on service
Finance SIOO -$.0013 minor saving - no effect on service
Promotion S7OO -$.0091 eliminates city contribution to the July 4th fireworks program.
Propose to have business & civic groups contribute to support
the program.
Police Dept. $4480 -$.0582 reduces the 5 man force by 1 man, probably resulting in elimin
ating local coverage for some portion of the day with the expec
tation that the county police force could be used, & that service
would be given.
Fire Dept. $2507 -$.0325 changes the status of the Fire Dept, from a city to a volunteer
Dept., thus enabling it to receive state funds available only
to vol. fire companys. Apparently no real change in seryice.
Library * $6512 -$.0846 changes library from city to county supervision. For camparison:
1953 Greenbelt Library expenditures 1.57 per capita.
1953 county library expenditures .59 per capita.
Health $1825 -$.0237 Claim has been made that county system has improved since 1953.
no change from present budget. Continues half-time Public
Health Nurse. Savings made by not employing her at full
v time as recommended.
- eliminates Recreation director’s post. Reduces part-time recre
ation help from $3500 to SISOO. Reduces by $2383 other expen
ditures such as ball club transportation, supplies, youth center
aid. Substitute for this county recreation services coordinated
by some other member of city staff. This cut represents a re-
Recreation $8063 -s.lo4Bduction of almost $13,000 over 1953 expenditures
Total Savings $26,087 -$.32 ap
proximately)
TABLE H
Effect of Suggested Reductions on Taxes for a $15,000 Home
Yearly city tax paid by
new $15,000 home assess- County and State Total
ed at $8250 taxes Tax
I. Proposed Budget “A” $193.88
tax rate $2.35 per SIOO a.v. $175.73 $369.61
H. Proposed cuts as described in Table I $167.48
tax rate $2.03 $175.73 343.21
HI. Elimination of Garbage Collection $159.23
only from tax rate, (payable by
service charge)
tax rate $1.93 $175.73 334.96
IV. Proposed cuts plus elimination of $132.82
Garbage Item. $175.73 308.55
Total possible savings per year by $26.40 per year
accepting Rate TV as against or
Rate IH. (The budget com- $ .50-1- per wk
mittee has asumed that Garbage out of a total tax of $308.55
Collection will be definitely eliminated from the
budget. This is the saving that will be made if the
proposed cuts of Table I are made in addition to
this.)
* based on assumption that a SIOOO savings equals «013 reduction in tax rate.
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phy Award will be made each year
to the member of the senior class
outstanding in scholarship, ath
letics and citizenship.
A group of patrol boys and girls
from the two Greenbelt elemen
tary schools lined the walk lead
ing to the church in honor of
young Attick whom many Green
belt children will long remember
as their favorite swimming teach
er.
Burial services were held at Fort
Lincoln Cemetery following the
service in Greenbelt.
COM. CHURCH from page 2
Ethel Gerring will be soloist. Rev.
Charles Strausburg will read the
Scripture.
The Chancel Choir of Communi
ty Church will sing McCorkick’s
Bingo to be Held December 11
A bingo game for cash prizes will
be held on Saturday, December 11,
in the social room of the Center
School at 8 p.m. Sponsored by the
Jewish Community Center, the
bingo party is open to everyone.
Admission will be free.
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“It is a good thing to give thanks,”
and the St. Cecilia and Pilgrim
Choirs will combine with the Chan
cel Choir in Dickinson’s “List to
the lark.”
The Offering will be for Church
World Service S.O.S. (Share our
Surplus) program which pays for
the cost of distribution only.
People of all faiths are cordially
invited to attend this Thanksgiv
ing Day Service.
Retarded Children Drive
A house-to-house canvass in be
half of contributions for the Na
tional Association of Retarded
Children will be held in Green
belt on Tuesday night, November
23, between the hours 7-8 p.m.
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Count To Ten
By Miriam A. Solomon
What comes first —the chicken
or the egg? Will a lower tax rate
spur residential, commercial, and
industrial building on our unde
veloped land, or will residential,
commercial and industrial build
ing on undeveloped land lower the
tax rate ? If Parker’s figures of
two weeks ago are right, if Mt.
Rainier’s tax-rate is .50 per SIOO
assessed valuation, Hyhttsville’s .62,
Takoma Park SI.OO, then Greenbelt
with a cut rate of $2.23 STILL
won’t be in line with neighboring
communities.
Maybe some of this will clear up
at the discussion this Friday at
the Citizens Association meeting,
or at the Council Budget Hearing
next Monday. When we talk of
our services as being duplicated by
the county services, we are mis
taken, since county services do not
equal ours. They cannot be dupli
cated if they are not equal. I am
not eager to cut out what we have
in Greenbelt now, with the county
so far below us. Budget “B” cuts
all services available by the coun
ty, and saves each family an av
erage of sl3 a year (1800 house
holds divided into the $23,000 dif
ference between maintaining full
services and using county serv
ices).
Some argue that if we depend
on the county, then we would con
centrate on improving the county.
Well, we could keep what we have,
and still work to improve the
county, because ultimately Green
belt’s well-being depends on a
prosperous county which does pro
vide good services. Now it does
n’t.
Commmissioner-elect Lastner is
dedicated to promoting the inter
ests of the whole county, and in
this he should have our whole
hearted support. Meanwhile, it
doesn’t seem right for Greenbelt
to go backward for sl3 per family
per year. In the zeal to cut ex
penses, tumbling for school chil
dren was cut out of the city rec
reation program last year, and I
consider this a great loss to our
children. , With wholesale slash
ing of the budget, as might now
happen, we and our children stand
to lose a great deal more of the
same, in library, recreation, fire
and police department services.
All this is to cut the tax rate .336,
in order to encourage expansion,
maybe.
Greenbelt has a proud reputation
for community services, and that,
combined with outstanding physi
cal characteristics, is what really
positive, instead of dispensing with
to concentrate on accentuating the
posiive, instead of dispensing with
services we may never see again.
Greenbelt's fine attributes, not
merely a trifling tax deduction of
.336, should be the selling point
here. That .338 is more than off
set by making us a poorer com
munity anyway.
Is it worthwhile to act against
the interests of present Green
belters so that MAYBE expansion
will result because of it, and MAY
BE someday these services will be
returned to us. MAYBE. I pre
fer to have us remain an inspira
tion to the rest of the county, than
to sink to its low level. When
their services become truly dupli
cates of ours, why then we will be
delighted to take advantage of
them. Let’s not commit suicide.
The quality of our present com
munity life is too precious to throw
away for sl3 a year.