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Show I County Commission Approves Budget, Cuts Sheriff Back Salt Lake County Commission this week adopted a 1958 budget of $7,884,324 for county government govern-ment operation based on a levy of 9.7 mills. The budget is $327,447 higher than the 1957 budget. Salt Lake County Sheriff's department, de-partment, which had been promised prom-ised an additional $5,100 for its 1958 operations,, did not receive the amount although the department de-partment had been promised the funds would be restored. Commission Chairman Lamont B. Gundersen had promised the department the amount would be restored to the sheriff's budget, bringing the department's allocation allo-cation to the same figure it was last year. Salt Lake County Commission had originally planned to cut the department's budget by the $5100 figure. The department had asked for $551,239 but was cut to $392,322. Salt Lake County residents this week attended a public j meeting and named a committee j of six county residents to attend . the Tuesday public hearing on the budget. The committee was given the task of studying the 1958 budget and appealing for at least the same amount of money for the sheriff's office as it received last year. The commission's action of I restoring the $5,100 met this requirement. re-quirement. County Auditor Glen T. James said the money would come from the general fund surplus account. "If it had been a large figure we would have been unable to do it," he xplained. )o |