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Show Budget Cut Faces City Commission A budget cut of almost two million dollars may face the Salt Lake City Commission," it was revealed this week. The commission may have to operate on a budget of $11,700,-000 $11,700,-000 compared with $13,024,824 in 1958. This figure included the four-mill levy of $908,000. Otto A. Maas, deputy city auditor, audi-tor, said City Auditor Louis E. Holley had directed him to take the city's deficit of one million dollars or possibly more, out of the 1959 budget. "All the department budget requests re-quests are in and they amount to $12,760,780," said Mr. Maas. "These budgets will have to be sliced considerably." He said capital improvement funds requests for 1959 total another an-other $1,262,366. |