Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-12-07 | Page 2 | City Budget Has Surplus of $194,180

CITY BUDGET HAS SURPLUS'S SURPLUS SURPLUS' OF S Approved Expenditures for Next Year Total Finance Proposal to Be Advertised A surplus of ot for expenditure expenditure on emergencies arising in ad administration administration administration ad- ad ministration of city government in 1929 had been carved out of the budget requests of eight major de departments departments departments de- de Friday when the city budget commission concluded Its Us sessions Including this this- surplus which is the largest provided In any city budget since passage of the budgetarY budgetary budge budge- tar tary statute the total approved budget is The anticipated antici revenue for next year Is s 3 13 61 L The budget as approved by the tIme commission will be advertised one week by Auditor Alvin Keddington after arter which a public hearing will be beheld beheld beheld held and the budget adopted or re revIsed revised revised re- re before January I 1 Only two departments escaped having their budget requests trimmed by the commission during its week of dally daily sessions Th These I e were the auditor whose 1929 budget budget budget bud bud- get totals and the library where here provision is made for expenditure expenditure expenditure of next year Reconstruction of Sunnyside r reservoir reservoir res res- s- s which collapsed two years ago under a head of water is the tile biggest single provision made in the approved budget No concrete and definite program of ot public improvements Improvements improvements improve Improve- ments was t presented at atthe the budget sessions Provision for the tile expenditure of ot on the reservoir and as the city's portion of ot public im improvements improvements improvements im- im was made ade and the amounts carried in the surplus Following is the summary of ot the budget requests of each department and the amount cut from each de departments department's departments department's de- de departments department's request by the budget commission Finance and public affairs re rei requests requests re- re i quests cut public public- I safety requests cut t 43 and public property reI requests re- re parks 1275 quests cut I streets requests cut statutory a and d general gener requests requests' I cut and water requests cut