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Show S. L. Pays November Bills Witb Plenty to End Year All Departments Spend $249,602 in Month, , Leaving $343,906 for December Likelihood of any major overdraft on the city's 1937 budget by the end of the year vanished Thursday when city commissioners received the monthly financial statement showing $249,602 was spent for operation of all departments during November, leaving a balance of $343,906 for December operations of the same depart- ments. The report was filed by Francis ! Piatt, chief deputy city auditor, and j ordered received and filed. I Expenditures for the 11-month period pe-riod ending November 30 have increased in-creased $292,932, including an expenditure ex-penditure of $116,734 for water pipe replacement, over the corresponding period last year, the report shows. Miscellaneous receipts, except those accruing from rents and concessions, con-cessions, show healthy increases over 1036. the report Indicates. Revenue Rev-enue from current general taxes Is down $246,229 and expected to be completely offset after the tax payment pay-ment dead line December 20. Collection Col-lection from rents and concessions are "off $9671, while revenue accruing accru-ing from payment of prior years' taxes is $8133 higher for the period this year than for the same period in 1936, according to the report. Outstanding in the receipts column col-umn of the report are earnings of the water department and revenue j from business licenses.' The water department revenue is $14,480 above I its quota of $619,000 set for the year. Receipts from license fees are I $6141.92 over the department's quota of $193,000 fixed at the beginning of the current year. Individual departments of the municipal government have spent from $&4$ to $86,432 more this year than the same departments spent in the 11-month period last year, the report shows. |