Show Commission Passes Money Ordinances The Davis County Commissioners Commissioners Commis- Commis were faced with sev several eral important decisIons to be made before the new year ear begins begins be- be gins after acter the Christmas holi- holi day I ON FRIDAY Dec 27 27 they approved a increase in appropriations in the 1963 1903 budget in order to balance out the accounts before the years year's end The total increase included ed cd for the general fund for the highways fUnd for the memorial ial fund and for capital capital capi capi- tal improvements These funds were transferred from the county's surplus in other budget bud bud- get categories This increase will enable the county to pay the remaining balance for construction of three new county buildings the county library county jail and sheriffs sheriff's offices completed ed this year on the courthouse grounds in Farmington and the county fire station currently cur under construction on West and North in West BoUntiful ALSO ON Friday the commissioners com com- missioners opened bids for two new a automobiles to for use by the sheriffs sheriff's dept They decided de- de decided to purchase a Buick costing from Wilkinson Wilkin- Wilkin son Buick Co and a Mercury Monterey l costing 0 from the Bountiful Motor Sales Inc However however on Monday finley Wilkinson owner of Wilkinson Buick met with the commissioners and pointed out that the smaller car did not meet the specifications ns of the size of motor and the wheelbase wheel wheel- base length which had been set forth by the sheriffs sheriff's of lice fice Following this explanation the commissioners reversed their decision made on Friday and bought the second smaller smal ler car from Wilkinsons Wilkinson's also This car to be used by a ad deputy dep- dep p- p uty was listed at by bythe bythe the Wilkinson firm BIDS were ere also opened and the contract let for Cor the purchase pur chase chas of petroleum products products' to tobe be used d. d b oWned count m I.e. sd during ring 1964 Of 01 the ilie r four f petroleum bids bid opened the I commissioners accepted the bid submitted by the Humble numble Oil and Refinery Co which was the l lowest west submitted Listed on their bid were the following figures Premium 1515 regular 1215 and Diesel Die Die- I set sel 1050 Other bids went as high as 1661 for premium 1328 for regular and 1148 for diesel Othe Other companies who submitted bids Inc ine 1 Iud u d e d Standard Oil Tom Randall Phillips 66 distributor an and d American Oil Co TilE THE PETROLEUM I comps compa ny Is to deliver the following amounts of gasoline per month to the county road mad shops in Fruit Heights gallons of regular a thousand gallons of number two diesel fuel fuei and a thousand gallons of premium quality gasoline This Contract went into effect Jan LIn L 1 In In oth other r- r business the corn com missioners reappointed E. E L L. Stromberg East Layton M. M P. P Leonard Farmington and Cl Claude ude Draayer Clinton to serve another four year term termon on the co county nty recreation committee com com- Their terms are to expire ex- ex pire Dec 31 1967 ON recommendation of the civil defense department Dale o 0 n i s scheduled t to attend the CD Shelter SheIL r Manag Management ment School at Camp Williams It will be heldon held heldon on Jan 27 and 28 The commissioner com com- missioner allowed 12 for regIstration regi reg- reg i at the school for Mr All this this' business faced the commissioners on Frid a y Then on Monday their biggest big gest item of business was the approval of the county budget for 1964 TIlE THE ONLY ONty change in the tentative budget which was advertised two weeks ago and the budget t which was adopted was in the health unit fund It was raised from the adv 7 to to o permit the hiring of fa a c a erh k bt Tl This s raised the budget t to a record high of Last year the county operated on a budget of The mill l levy vy rem remained l th the same same however It IL was still listed at 1250 With a valuation of 64 one produces nearly a hundred thousand dollars TEN YEARS ago go when we thought Davis County had grown tremendously the 1954 budget reached what was thought to be a tremendous amount That budget amounted amount amount- ed to and the c coun county un- un ty mill levy was set at Yet the the taxpayers apparently apparently feel that the budget approved approved ap- ap proved Monday for county government operations was not out of reason You see noone no noone one appeared at the public p blie hearing to voice an objection to the proposed budget which will now be the one on which the county will operate for the next 12 months NEW buildings and sala make up the major portion of the funds requested However was budgeted for Class B B road funds fund and was listed for county roads One new recreation item was listed separately from the recreation fund This was a item for operation of the tho county golf goll course which Is scheduled for opening this spring However it is expected expect expect- ed that the golf goll fees will bring in n this much or more during the first season |