Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-12-30 | Page 63 | Budget System Aids Finances of County

BUDGET SYSTEM AIDS FIRMER OF COUNTY. Placing- of Accounting on Revenue Basis Reveals $180,000 Assets. I Through t he insulin t im of a hndcet system in VlT, Stilt I-ake 'omuy at last knows its finaiu'iai condition. The placing nf the rounty's business on a revenue basis revealed assets amount- j iny to approximately SlSu.ei'O. which p ior 10 ll'lT were unaccounted ior. Col-I Col-I lection oi a larger part oi this ' amount ! has not only mude possible the hquida- j tion of the county's indebtedness carried over from former years, but also lias made possible a reduction of the tax rate for county purposes. In view of tiie demand made by reason of the war a further roduci ion of Untax Un-tax levy is probable next year, members of the' county commission takinu the siand th.it revenue should be raised for opeiutinr expenses only. The total revenue for 1017 was estimated esti-mated at ?S6r-.tlS2.rvS, and the expenditures expendi-tures for the first eleven months amount I ed to SST.i.iS-i.Si, leaving an unexpended j balance of ?;i7,JlftS.2il. This was more than suf fie ient to meet the Deocmher claims, since impart ot" the last month's Tiie !;:: '"or ':. nun'y ivii.s on t;..-- iu::a:. h.di;i ;, .:: o a mill sl-ue rvd lax. It u:is a i- dn- ny. of nf a mi!i a s -liv1;ia : eii lo ihe T' I co-;nt incridiuu: .itv wa M'TT.- 4Jvi;i as ;ic:iins! ' A::.:i;.;:;vi;ri in i Tr- iiii-.Msv ivif-ioJ ::-:.! rom ta;t-i'.o" ta;t-i'.o" -ii the n-'t pr-ed;- o:" mine:. The nei tax colle. led in Salt Lake county, ami ;v; portioned to l!a Sal: Lake i'il ;;v.i:ile. Murray and Jo. nan schord .disuicis, amounte.i to .; -j ,i;n.; 1 The apportionment ot Lbs tax tit the Severn: ; taxing funds was us fdiows: Sta: e. $1 .;;m.2hl'.1 :; : '-mint v pnor Lira!. Silo. I,".: count - i.-n.ual f'uid. ?:2(--.'.':; eonrtv exhibits and faun oi-:vn"- strm ion. $;..::i;.::j; state pm enmity : -: 1 worKi. Sv:'..iV.-:..l ; .iit Lake Ci: e?:pora-lavt. e?:pora-lavt. ! . ! va.V'j'I.f' Salt Lake (''ly schno', ?1,"L0TT.2T; r.ranite schoI disti ii L, S 1 vi.ilT L'.7 ; M urray city general foid. -.4.4 vy;m; Murra v city si bonis. $'.? 4vUn; Jordan school uislii. I. $2."'V!""'."...M. The receipts (or the" tirst eleven months of L.-17 amounted to ?::ai. I mi.44. and the disbursement s to $7 ;::.-! i ".L. The la rge-a rge-a mount of taxes i eceived a f'.er Novem -be r :'.n account for the apparent difference differ-ence between receipts and dishursements,-The dishursements,-The county retired kiui worth of gen-' era! bonds duriiii the year, ledueins it bonded indebtedness to Sjso.muO. Sr veral extensive improvement : w era-made era-made at the county hospital, the total cost of which wili a rebate i.'.o.nO". These included a new scailel fever isolation isola-tion hospital, designed as the first of a seiies of hospital additions io the oounL hospital for Hauious and info. Lous diseases. dis-eases. An aooilional story was added u t he nurses' home, making j ossdde the tiainitu of an increased nuruhcroi' nurses" for war service. The tuberculosis want on the roof of the main hospital bunding bund-ing was ma cle readily a -ess I hie throng1.-, an extension of the elevator shaft. lload improvement s. imludinu work no eta if highwavs within tiie county, cost approximately j70.'Oi The coneret-paving- of State street between Salt l.ak. C'itv and Murrav was completed a"d work of improving Hie incohi highwa'-through highwa'-through Parley's can you gotten undm way Xearlv three miles of hituhlhic p;n. . ing weie "laid on M Thirty-thud Solith street, and extensive repairs we. e : made to the Magna -Tooele highwu . . Numerous other road improvements woiv undertaken and completed. reinforced concrete bridge was built ovVr the Jordan river at Kifty-ftvM-South street. There are a' proximal eb ;:oo miles of improved roads in tl d county.