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Show P0Ei9ht FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1960 THE SALT LAKE TIMES Sen. Moss Continues His Fight To Block 'Protective Works' Bill expenditures to do the following: "Construct a barrier dam be-low the bridge to keep the waters from backing up under it. "Construct a diversion dam above it to keep the waters of Bridge Creek from flooding be-hind the barrier dam. "Construct a tunnel to divert the Bridge Creek waters under the mountains and across the neighboring Aztec Creek whose course parallels that of Bridge Creek. "All of this, together with ac-c- es roads into the area or heli-copter service to bring in the necessary equipment supplies, i could cost the people about $25 million. "After the protective works are built, there would be an an-nual cost for inspection and main-tenance work on the pumping plant which woudl be necessary on any of the three alternate barrier dam plans suggested. "I repeat the expenditure can not be defended on the grounds that the protective works are needed. I ask that the Public Works Appropriation bill be re-ported from this subcommittee j without the requested item of i $3.5 million to start construction j work on a barrier and diversion dam." i (Continued from Page 1) Senate upon introduction of the bill, and again before the sub-committee, he based his position on a Bureau of Reclamation re-port of the findings of field par-ties sent to Rainbow Bridge to examine the area. He quoted the report as stating that under Rain-bow Bridge the maximum water depth would be 46 feet, but that the water surface would be 21 feet below the left abutment and 33 below the right abutment of the bridge. "In other words, when the res-ervoir was at its highest level, which would be only 13 per cent of the time, the water would be far below the columns of the arch, and could not possibly lap against them or impair them in any way. The Senator told th subcom-mittee that present plans call for Utah Foundation Sees Brighter Outlook For State's Finances Higher than anticipated general fund receipts have brightened the state general fund picture considerably during the past 12 months, according to a current analysis of state finances just prepared by Utah Foundation, th private governmental organ-ization. The report estimates that the state general fund will end the present (1959-61- ) bienniumwith a $3 million balance. A year ago following the 1959 legislative session, no ending balance was indicated. Despite the improved general fund picture, the Foundation ob-serves that the next Utah Legis-lature will be faced with the problem of meeting rising ex-penditure demands with shrink-ing fund balances to cushion the impact. In order to balance the budgets for the 1957-5- 9 and 1959 61 bienniums, the general fund will have used approximately $10.6 million in previously ac-cumulated balances and surplus. In its analysis of the uniform school fund, the Foundation ob-serves that a substantial property tax was needed to balance the uniform school fund budget dur-ing the present biennium. The state school property tax in 1959 was 6.1 mills. Based on the best information available at this time, the Foundation pre-dicts that the state school levy in 1960 again will be about six mills. This compares with only 1 mill in 1957 and 1958. When the school equalization program was first established in 1947, the state school levy was 8.5 mills in 1947 and 8.9 mills in 1948. Foundation analysts point out that it is difficult to obtain a complete and objective under-standing of Utah state finances because of the multiplicity of state funds and limitations in the state's accounting system. - On March 1, 1960, there were 197 separate funds for cash con-trol purposes in Utah. Each of these funds is a separate fiscal and legal entity established to satisfy a specific constitutional, statutory or administrative re-quirement. The report points out than "an excessive number of funds, restricted in use, not only seriously impedes fiscal manage-ment, but also tends to defeat the judicious use ow public money, the very objective that fund re-structi- ons are established to at-tain. According to the study, more than two-thir- ds of total state disbursements in Utah are not subject to specific legislative appropriations. In analyzing the state's ac-counting system, the study ob-serves that "while the Utah ac-counting system provides me-chanical control over the state's finances, it fails to furnish the data needed for formulating sound decisions involving public policy." As an example, the re-port notes that state receipts and disbursements often are inflated by items that bear little or no relationship to general govern-mental operations. 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