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Show COUNTY $319,322 TO OPERATE 1924 'County Auditor Clifford L. Wright Issues Annual Financial Kcport. It cost rtah county isiiltVi'J'-VrM to operate its county government during dur-ing 15121. according to the annual report of Clifford I,. Wright, counly nuditor, just presented to tin- county coun-ty commission. The expenses were S10.21tl.ctt within the budget set by the commission at the beginning ot 3024. The greatest saving on the budget was made by the general fund which was Slll.lsil.C!) within the amount ; called for. Three oilier funds, poor nnd indigent fund, maintenance county infirmary fund and exhibition exhibi-tion ami advertising fund, were within the budget, while six funds were in excess. Of these the highways high-ways fund was an excess of So.3!).".S; and the new county building build-ing fund with on excess of .s.looa ao-tountod ao-tountod for the larger part of the recess. More than one-third of the en-lire en-lire expenses of the county came from the general fund which expended ex-pended Sll!,Jf.V.)7. during the year. The amounts spent by the various departments of the county including salaries of principals, deputies and extra help, office and traveling expenses ex-penses were as follows: county commissioners, .$ti.!)l:l.lo ; treasurer, $12..,!2.'i..S:i : assessor, 1 1 .i;r.H.)7 ; clerk, $5,520.3!) ; Auditor, $J.ilsn.Kl ; recorder. Sli.SSO.22 : road cniumis-sioner, cniumis-sioner, $2,S!W.S8: attorney. S2.ss.s2; Sheriff, ?17.S.S7.20; agricultural agent and home demonstrator, S2.070.75: fruit and crop pest inspector, in-spector, Sspo.SC; election expense, S5.onn.s-i. other expenses were ax follows: highways fund, SI1;1.!U7. 12 : poor anil indigent fund, S:ii),s:u.2i! : maintenance mainten-ance county infirmary fun. I. SS.-177.37: SS.-177.37: exhibition ,nnd advertising fund $1,200; interest en bonds fund. .$-10.00(1: (icnoln special fund. S5.-031.51; S5.-031.51; Vineyard special fund. Sl.-30ti.!)i; Sl.-30ti.!)i; LakcYicw special fund. Sl,-22S.S7: Sl,-22S.S7: new county building fund, ?0.1 10.21. The assets of the ( nly, ' as shown by the financial lvp.-rl. are $2,512,710. Among the larger assets listed are county equity in new county building. $2i'i2.os:;.7(i ; county equity in infirmary. $IS,-45fi.l0; $IS,-45fi.l0; road equipment. S22.SM3.:: 1 ; hard surface roads. S5P.'!. (II I7.ps. The statement of distribution of county highway cxpendil tires shows that $01,031.84 was paid out lo Hie various districts of the eounly. Of this amount (lie I.chi di-.trii-l received re-ceived $10.(181.50 : the Klliei la district, dis-trict, including Dividend. Ss.7lll.l7; the Tayson district. $(1,425.10. The rest of the amount was distributed among 30 other districts ranging in amounls from $100. 87 in (he Saratoga Sara-toga district to S5;i02.05 in the American Fork canyon. "We roc imend thai the p anil indigent list and payroll be thoroughly thor-oughly investigated ami revised in every quarter," says County Auditor Wright in his recommendations to the county commission. "Wo recommend recom-mend an equalization, standardization standardiza-tion and graduated schedule of dep.. nties salaries in the various departments, depart-ments, of the county. "We recommend an early setting of the budget for 1025 and that there be a strict adherence thereto. I'nlil such time as we balance our budget and live with in our revenues rev-enues in each department and fund taxes in this county cannot be reduced. re-duced. "Wo recommend that a budget be prepared for each road district in line county, based on the taxes paid into tlie county and the requirements require-ments and needs of each district, and thai each road district supervisor super-visor be "advised of the nmoiml of the budget of his district and that he be held strictly within this budget bud-get in his expenditures in his particular par-ticular road district. Sufficient reserve re-serve should be provided to meet all emergencies. "Wo beg to recommend that all vouchers and claims against 1'tah county be signed by at least two members of the board of eoiilil.v couimissiouers when passing tleni for payment." |