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Show BUDGET HEARING TO AWAIT STUDY Departments Given Tentative Draft Setting of a date for the public hearing on the proposed 1938 budget for Salt Ljike City will await study of the suggested budget by department depart-ment heads. Finance Commissioner William Murdoch said Thursday. The tentative budget, totaling $3.-236.890, $3.-236.890, was submitted to departments depart-ments Wednesday. It is $13,475 higher than the 1937 budget as it stood on December 1 and will require re-quire no increase in tax levy to sup-1 port. Commissioner Murdi?h assured. as-sured. I Outstanding In the new budget is provision for increasing pay of all firemen and policemen $10 per month apd a permanent fiscal arrangement, ar-rangement, entered into temporarily five months ago, to restore the final 2.5 per cent of the depression pay cut imposed on all city employes. Finance arrangement for firemen fire-men and policemen is the result of a petition filed by representatives of the two departments asking for a $20 per man raise in pay. I Another petition, submitted by, Mayor E. B. Erwin In behalf of all employes of the public safety department, de-partment, health department workers work-ers included, asked for blanket 123 per cent pay ' boosts. The auditing staff Thursday dispatched dis-patched 1938 budget forms to earn department chief clerk and man- j ager. The forms are to be filled out on the basis of revenue apportionments ap-portionments made Wednesday and returned to the auditor. A date for the public hearing will then be j fixed, it was explained. |