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Show Traffic Safety Item Provided Parking Meter Revenue to Be Used . A separate Item of $75,000 for "traffic safety" was Included in the tentative budget for Salt Lake municipal government for 1940, as submitted Tuesdsy to the city commission. com-mission. The $75,000 was carried under the public safety department as a sum separate from the $690,000 set up for the police, fire and health divisions of the department Last year, a total budget of $786,-855 $786,-855 was set up for all public safety department activities, Including traffic work. The tentative 1940 budget, still subject to adoption after a public hearing on December 27, did not explain whether the $75,000 item is to be used only for police traffic enforcement work, or is to Include all related traffic work, such as engineering, which includes placing plac-ing of signs, signals, painting of streets and other traffic controls. The city traffic commission had I recommended to the city commission commis-sion that It create a separate budget budg-et for traffic engineering work, including in-cluding a street lighting program. Revenue source, of the $75,000 item will be parking meters, according to the tentative budget, P. |