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Looking Back for March 16, 1934: Taxpayers to vote on $9,000 bond issue
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From the Friday, March 16, 1934, edition of The Steamboat Pilot:
On Friday, March 9, the board of trustees passed an ordinance calling a special election to be held April 9, in collection with the general election for town officers, to decide whether $9,000 in bonds of the town shall be authorized for the construction of a septic tank for the sterilization of sewage from the town.
To entitle a person to vote on the bond issue, he must have the following qualifications:
- He must be a qualified elector; that is, he must have resided in the state for one year, in the county for 90 days and in town for 10 days
- He must have during the 12 months preceding the April 3 election paid a property tax in the town. This means a town tax or either real or personal property.
A majority of votes is necessary to authorize the bonds.
Nine thousand dollars is the estimated total cost of the septic tank. A site has been selected immediately west of the island below town. This site seems to be about the only one available and practicable for the purpose. To reach it, it will be necessary to extend the present outlet of the sewer system in the bed of the Yampa River several hundred yards to the west. The tank is a large concrete box in which the sewer output is held for a short period of time and chemically treated so that when released in the river, it will be sterile and free of disease-carrying bacteria.
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