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Show Centerville Okays $1,528,261 Budget By GARY BLODGETT CENTERVILLE - A 1981-82 fiscal year budget totaling $1,528,261 for maintenance, mainte-nance, operation and capital improvements of Centerville was approved by the City Council last Tuesday night. THE VOTE was 3-0 with two council members absent. However, the budget was given preliminary approval by the mayor and all five council members at a meeting two weeks previous, it was explained. The budget includes a ten percent "across the board" increase for all city employees. THIS ITEM (salaries) was the most hotly debated item on the agenda during a public hearing prior to adoption to the budget. Mayor Golden Allen presented an alternate alter-nate salary increase proposal, as recommended recom-mended by the council, which would have allowed lower salaried personnel to receive a higher increase. BOTH PROPOSALS were debated by the council, and several persons, including city employees, as to the most preferred salary proposal. In the end, the council decided on the straight ten percent across-the-board increase which appeared to be the most popular method among city employees em-ployees attending the meeting. The overall budget will mark an increase of about ten percent, an increase of about $165,500 over this fiscal year's estimated budget. THE STREETS dept. had the largest individual in-dividual budget, getting about one-third of the total budget allocated. The streets dept. was earmarked for $498,209, including '$283,984 for capital outlay. The police dept. will receive $270,335, an increase of about $25,000 over the present fiscal-year budget. THE WATER dept. will receive $201,000; capital improvements for Smoot Park, $125,000; administration, $103,270; sanitation, $83,450; fire dept.. $75,000; parks, $39,500; municipal building maintenance, mainte-nance, $25,500; municipal court, $23,315; inspections, $26,465; engineering. $25,000; and insurance for the city, $22,000. Other expenditures proposed are planning plan-ning and zoning dept., $13,050; mayor and council, $13,500; liquor law enforcement. $10,639; recreation. $10,600; attorney fees, $10,000; deposit with the State Insurance Fund, $8,500; audit, $8,000: elections, $7,200; July 4th celebration, $3,700: cemetery cemet-ery fund, $6,500; materials and supplies for city shops, $2,000; board of adjustment, $800; miscellaneous services for sewer system, sys-tem, $400; redemption of an off-site storm drainage bond. $82,000; and miscellaneous expenses, $31,000. MAJOR SOURCES of income include anticipated sales tax, $350,000; property tax, $225,000; licenses, permits, and fees, $50,150; federal revenue sharing, $75,558; Bureau of Outdoor Recreation grant (for Smoot Park), $125,000; contributions from the State, $304,195; sanitation fees, $89,000; fines and forfeitures, $60,000; interest in-terest and sales, $75,200; and collector road funds and sidewalk grant from the State, $352,366. |