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Show City Budget Meeting Set for June 28 Residents of Moab will have a chance to voice their opinion on a proposed pro-posed half a million dollar dol-lar budget for Moab City at a hearing scheduled for June 28 at 8 p.m. in the City Council Chambers. Revenues for the coming com-ing year are estimated at $559,039, with the largest lar-gest amount of that money to come from revenue sharing, $207,241. Other income expected by the City from property tax is $88,000; sales tax, $73,000; licenses and permits, $67,700; fines and forfeitures, $22,000; use of money and property, prop-erty, $100; liquor funds, $8,083; federal grants, $6,000; collector roads, $19,415; and current services, ser-vices, $67,500. Tenetively scheduled for expenditures for administrative ad-ministrative purposes is $36,000. Of this amount, $29,258 is set for salaries sala-ries and employee benefits bene-fits and the remainder for materials, supplies and services connected with the administration of the City office. Budget appropriations for the current year for operation of the City Court was set at $21, 575. The tentative appropriation ap-propriation for the coming com-ing year is set at $22,-900 $22,-900 and the increase is reflected primarily in 'ncreased salaries and employee benefits. Budgeted for elections this year is $1700 and during the last City election elec-tion in 1971 a total of $1293 was spent. Funding for maintenance mainte-nance of the building and plant for the coming year includes $1,300 for redoing re-doing the city offices, $1500 for ordinances and publications, $3,000 for office expenses and supplies; sup-plies; equipment maintenance mainte-nance and supplies, $1,-000; $1,-000; operating supplies, $4,500; assessing and collection $1,800 and other miscellaneous expenses ex-penses which bring the total budget to $16,800, compared with $12,800 for last year. Police Work Police enforcement funds for the comingyear are set at $65,438, with $49,938 of that to be spent in salaries and employee em-ployee benefits. The budget bud-get for police work last year was set at $60,420 and the present increase is reflected primarily in an expenditure for a new police car. This cost is set at $3,500. Connected with police budget is the liquor law enforcement budget which is set at $10,986 compared with $10,662 for last year. The budgetary requests for this phase of police work remains essentially essenti-ally the same as last year. An increase of about $700 is noted in the budget bud-get for the city inspector. inspect-or. This increase is due primarily to an increase in salary and employe benefits. Expenditures for animal ani-mal control also shows a slight increase for the coming year with $4,500 allotted for wages and $788 for employee benefits. bene-fits. No changes are noted in the expenditures for materials, supplies and services which are set at $2,900. This brings the total budget for this department de-partment to $8,188. Budgeted for flood control con-trol in the coming year is $3,000. This amount is funded in case there I is an emergency situation situa-tion which calls for its use. During the pastyear, the same amount was budgeted, however only $113 of that money was used. City Streets A large increase is shown in salaries for the Moab City Street Department De-partment in the coming budget with $42,875 appropriated ap-propriated compared with $25,825 for the past year, however decreases in several other areas are also noted. The net increase for this department depart-ment is set at just over $2,000 with a total budgetary bud-getary allotment of $77,-225 $77,-225 compared with $72,-125 $72,-125 for last year. Funds from the collector collec-tor road system are set at $19,415 and this money is to be kept and later used for funding on the Fifth West project as well as a project slated for Mill Creek Drive. Monies collected and then dispursed for garbage garb-age collection are up $4,-000 $4,-000 from last year. Of the total $55,000 budget, $53,000 is to go to Robert Rob-ert Hawks for garbage collection and the remaining re-maining $2,000 is to go for operation of the dump and maintenance there. Earmarked for expenditure expen-diture at the Moab Swim Center is $11,513, an increase in-crease over the $10,925 budgeted for this year. Of this amount, $8,813 is to be spent for salaries sala-ries and employee benefits, bene-fits, nearly a $600 increase in-crease over the present year. The remainder of the budget for the pool stays at $2,700 for supplies sup-plies and materials. An increase is also noted for the budget in maintenance of the City parks which is set at $11,525 for this year compared with $9,297 budgeted last year. It should be noted, however, that during the pastyear, $12,536 was spentinpark maintenance and for this reason it was necessary to increase the budget appropriation. Under miscellaneous expenses, a total of $9,-250 $9,-250 has been allocated. Of this amount, $1,500 is to go to the Chamber of Commerce; $2,000 to recreation; $2,000 to irrigation; ir-rigation; $300 to Boy Scouts; $300 miscellaneous; miscellane-ous; $400 to Jaycees;and $1,250 to the golf course. In addition, $1,500 has been allocated to be given to Grand County for work being done at the County Recreation Field. Revenue Sharing Appropriations from the Revenue Sharing budget include some funds from the past year's budget which have not yet been used. For this reason, the budget appears to be over the allocation of $207,000. Included in the list of projects which will use the Federal monies mon-ies are a street sweeper, $27,200; police resucita-tor, resucita-tor, $750; seal coating of city streets, $20,000; police drug advisory board, $1,000; southeast park, $3,000; and streets and bridge, $10,000. In addition a loader has been budgeted at $15,000; and a planned overhauling of planning and zoning ordinances ordi-nances will cost an estimated esti-mated $5,000. To be put into an escrow account for future work is $49,-000 $49,-000 for the Mill Creek Drive project and $10,-000 $10,-000 to be used toward construction of a new swimming pool. Also budgeted out of revenue sharing funds is $24,000 for work at the visitor center park on North Main and an additional addi-tional $5,000 for furnish ing of that building. The City has also set aside $5,000 to be used if possible for settung up a sanitary landfill. It is hoped, according to Mayor Winford Bunce that this landfill will be constructed in conjunction conjunc-tion with the National Park Service, U. S. Forest For-est Service and Bureau of Land Management and cooperative funds maybe available. Persons with questions or comments concerning the new City Budget are urged to attend this important im-portant hearing so that their ideas can be heard. Traditionally, budget hearings are poorly attended at-tended and local citizenry citizen-ry does not exercise its option to have a voice in how public monies are spent. |