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Show 112 ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF WATER DEVELOPMENT Association Assessments So far the District has been required to pay assessments of the Provo Association in the total amount of $ 34,500. Tax Rates - 1936 to 1941 During the year 1935 no tax was levied. In 1936 the tax rate was 0.38 mills; in 1937, 0.934; in 1938, 0.30; in 1939 none, and in 1940, 0.20 mills. The tax rate for 1941 has been set at 0.10 mills. City May Avoid Tax After determining the amount of money necessary to be raised by taxation in each year the law requires the District to inform the governing body of the City and it may then elect to pay that amount to the District and thus avoid the tax which otherwise must be assessed against property 157. A steel span section of the Salt Lake Aq\ span is situated above Pleasant Grove. within the District. So far the City has elected to make no payment on this account. District Must Watch Congressional Appropriations It may have been noticed that neither the " Repayment Contract" of the Deer Creek Division nor that covering construction of the Aqueduct provide that the United States will in every event expend the amount necessary to complete the Works but that in both cases the obligation is subject to the availability of funds. For that reason, as well as to insure that construction will proceed as rapidly as possible, the District's Board of Directors have always been active and successful in inducing larger congressional appropriations than would otherwise have been made. To that end it has on several occasions sent one or more of its employees to Washington. It has also utilized the services of the Nation- ict as it appeared during construction. This Bureau of Reclamation |