Resolution 194611111.111111.111111111.7
RESOLUTION NO. 1946
A RESOLUTION OPPOSINfs THE MER1IN
OF CITY AND COUNTY ASSESSMENTS
AND COLLECTIONS.
WHEREAS, Honorable =overnor Doyle E. Carlton
has called to our attention, by letter addressed to
our Mayor , the fact that the su g"'e stion of the Flor-
id. i.saocia tion of County Tax Collectors was being
considered, to the effect that "Municipal taxes
might be assessed by City Tax Assessors and the Muni-
cipal tax roll turned over to the County Tax Collect-
or for collection" , and
WHEREAS, it is rumored that a bill is being pre-
pared for introduction into -the State Legislature dur-
ing the present session, providing in some manner for
the merging of the assessment and collection of taxes
in Municipalities with that of Counties, under the
supervision of County Assessors and Collectors,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUN-
CIL OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, that we here-
by express to Honorable lovernor Doyle E. Carlton, Hon-
orable Representatives S. Pierre Robineau, Dan Chappell ,
and E. Bruce Youngs and to Honorable Senator John W.
Watson our unalterable opposition to any plan wherein
the assessment and collection of our City taxes would
be taken over by any other than our regularly consti-
tuted City Officers , at this time for the following
reasons:
FIRST . Statistics of record show that our City
Tax Collector has consistently over a
period of years collected a very substantially larger
proportion of our total taxes, prior to delinquency
and sale date , than has the County Tax Collector in
our County collected of County Tax Roll within the
same area, and
SECOND. That said City Tax Collector has consist-
ently sold to individuals every Tax Sale
Certificate ever offered by our City , so that to date
we have absolutely no outstanding taxes on our City
Books; in other words, we have had 100% collection of
our City Taxes to date as compared with the custom of -
County Collector selling a large amount of County Tax
Sale Certificates to the State , thus having to await
their redemption before funds from same become avail-
able, and
THIRD. That on March 31st , 1929 , our City Tax
Collector had already collected over
72 of our City taxes as compared with a considerably
lower percentage collected to same date by the County
Collector , and
FOURTH. That we would, therefore, be at a con-
siderable disadvantage if we were de-
pendent upon our County Collector to collect our taxes
and would have to provide for deficiencies in collec-
tion by increasing our tax rate , and
FIFTH. That owing to the necessity of our con-
tinuing to collect our own special as-
sessments and liens for various municipal improvements
we would be compelled to keep our present collection
organization and machinery intact , hence there would
be practically no saving to us by the elimination of
the collection of regular City taxes , in fact it would
undoubtedly cost us a considerable amount more than at
present after we had paid a County Collector a commis-
sion for making our Collection.
! e , therefore , hereby urge our Honorable Repre-
sentatives and Senator to use their influence in our
behalf against the passage of any such action by the
State Legislature; and, we further hereby urge our
Honorable =overnor to veto any such bill in case same
is passed.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 3rd day of Aoril , A. D.
1929.
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Presid: _t of City ' ouncil
(Pro-tem)
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