lUlU ROla, cal., "r., Oct. 22, 194a

'·Vet Memorial Program Must Be Pclred or ore Funds Raised ' (Thb is the flrst of two arll­

.~ explalnln&" the .t.tus of the ...... _ County V.terans' Me­iDo.\'lals program.)

By F1\ED FLETCHElI

memorial building in the county ing to present plans, will amount to $350,000. to less th .. $1,200,000. .

Spokesmen for the Santa Rosa If this is true, either more counterpart of the Petaluma money will have to be raised, committee were not pleased by or the program will nave to be this action. The Santa Rosa pared down. Either move could

. -'!- disagreement, made public group is p·llshing a plan for 8 be as unpopular ·as the other. th~ week, belwen two imporlant $580,000 memorial auditorium. The county board ot super-S.oJ,'loma county veterans' com- visors, which this year reduced Irilltees . over the division ot the BEHIND the diller.nce Is this the special tax . ~ate for the me-·eounty's war memorial funds fact, which becomes apparent in morial pl'ogra:'n by $.O~ per $100 may be an indication of the a perusual of the county's re- of asse~c:1. valuation, might finanCing headache troubling cords of its 41h-year-old veter- hesitate .before raising the rate 'lb • . county board of supervisors. an's war memorial program: again ry the $ ... 15 to $.20 that . 'rhe official Petaluma war Sonoma county's program of would be needed to bl'ing in

~:::~l~ ~r~!~~~ans,a g~~~; i~ac~~u~~Fesor~~ p~;~c~o:'~ enour~h mqney. rePresentatives, asked the su- tha,! $2,000,000, while the money vi~~s tl~~\~~~ebeh~~~A~e :~I~~i= ~P:;;, • .wl;:: :.:· s::b::.rs~to~li:.:.m:.:.it~t:.:.h:.;ec,:c::;· os:::t:.,o~tc,:a~n~y:,.,;,,::a;;v;a;,:lla;:b:::l:::.e,:..~n;d:....:::ex~pec~:::te::d:,.., ..::a:::cc::o:.::r.::;d~-. ... .'lnt 10 reduce the size ot the <3:d ,-_ ... -- .r:=. program, which is being strong-

ly backed in the 10 communities.

THE PROGlIAM was started April 24, 19:44. when the super-

1 visors adopted a resolution de-

. claring their intention of levy­ing a general tax to finance

""7 veterans' war memorial projects in various communities asking for them.

In the ensuing two years 10 projects were definitely slated

d- for communities in Sonoma county. They will be in Santa

>P Rosa, Petaluma, Sebastopol, So­ta noma, GuernevHle. OCCidental, ::It Cloverdale, Cotati, Healdsburg jf and Monte Rio. te Sites have been acquired for 1- the 10 projects at a cost of

approximately $120,000. Prelim­\- inary. designs of the first seven .e have been made by archltects nand · accepted by the board of

supervisors. Preliminary cost estimates

made for these seven projects by the architects totaled $1,008,841. This was in June, 1946, in the case of the "first six

\ projects. The seven1h estimate was ~ade in February, 1947.

THE ·PROJECTS O\-ud pl'cllmi .. naty cost estimates:

. Santa Rosa, memorial ·audi­

. . torium; $301,300; Petaluma, vet .. erans' meeting building, $244,-38'9; Sebastopol, memorial build­ing, $120,660; Sonoma, memonal building, $122,330; Guerneville, veterans' building, $64,194; Occi­dental, memorial . civic center, $72200; Cloverdale. memorial

they had started a financing I' morial tax rate for the xt I more than a total revenue of er than the average) to the pre-program. two years, 1949-1950 and 1 0- $1,200,000· by the end of the ti- liminary estimates for all seven

In the 1944-1945 budget, they 1951, which will complete the nancing program tn 1951. ($1,008,941) gives approxiritate-allowed $35,000 for the program. existing pro g r.a m. the tal M<?reoveJ;', construction costs ly $908,100. This was not spent that year amount that Wlll have en have soared since cost estimates Adding the two figures t6~ but was added to a $65,000 raised by June 30, 1951, is 1},- on the first seven projects were gether makes a sum of $l,!l17, ... allotment in the 1945-1946 bud- 162,286. , made two years ago. 041 as an up-Io-date cost esti-get. (This is based On an ~n- Working plans tor the Santa mate for the seven buildings.

The next year, they set up a changed ass e sse d valualon Rosa structure were submitted About $160,000 a Ire a d y has special war memorial fund un- bringing in, in round numbirs, July 23, 1948. The new cost es- been spent on sites and designs; . der provisions of the California . $225,000 annually ·over the fio ,Umate was. $580,000, compared and three projects still have de-Veterans and Military Code and final years.) . . to $301,300 two years afo. signs to be accepted. Assume the in that budget, for 1946-1947, While s e v C,r a 1 supervi$rs latter will give cost estimates' I established a tax rate of S .25 haYe indicated that the 10 pOi- THIS IS AN ·Increase of 90 totaling only $40,000. per $100 of aSsessed valuation: ects ·in the memorial prognrn per cent in the estimated ·,cost of Add the last three "figures to-.

They raised $190,337 through were to ·cost $1,500,000, it ",.olld · the same building in t",o years. gether for a rough estimate of. this tax and at the end of the . be: reaSonable, on the basis! of' Applying ihis per c e n tag e the total cost. of" th~ entire vet.:. fiscal y~ar voted to continue the these ·estimates, to expect ,no I. (wh. ich, of course, may be high~ erans' m morial progra . S tax in 1947-1948, "and for an I~~~~:!!!~~"::::~~~+.::::"_~~~:o..::~~~~::...~..:.:..:!:.:.:=--~~_ . e mIn 0-

additional 3-year period to com-plete a 5-year f.inancing pro-gram."

JUST HOW much mo"ey th. tax will have raised by that time depends, of course, upon the county's · assessed valuation each year as well as the tax rate the supervisors choose to fix .for the memorial program.

The tax rate this year has been reduced from the 1947-1948 25 cents to the 1948-1949 (present) 20 cents. It is expect" cd to raise $201,717, according to the budget.

Adding this to the annual revenue of the previous four years gives a total of $712,286' that will have been raised by June 30, 1949.

(The amounts raised each year for .the program: 1944 - 1945, $35,000; 1945 - 1946, $65,000; 1946-1947-first specIal tax year -'-$190,337; 1947-1948, $220,232; 1948-1949-this year-$201,717. Total, $712,286.)

ASSUMING Ute supervisors will go back to the 25c cent me-

r buiiding, $83,768. Total, $1,008,-

d 84iPIalls fOl. a Cotati m.emorial I e civic center structure and a · \

Monte Rio memorial are not 1 :.. yet in. He.aldsburg's memorial, . .. an aquatic park, has be~n pu~ .. , chased, and an arcbltect. 1S· ~ working up plans for remodehng

. n a building on the property.) Ie After preliminary plans for

the. first seven had been acc~pt­- ed, :the supervisors ordered fl~al ~

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