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Show County Commission Approves Tentative Budget; Calls Hearing for Discussion on December 13th Grand County Commissioners Commission-ers last week approved a tentative budget for 1972 with an increase in General Fund I appropriations of just over $18,000 with the major in-I in-I crease coming in the Hospital Tax Revenue fund which will receive an increase from $40,-! $40,-! 000 to $50,000 in appropria- tions for the coming year. 1 The major portion of this in-i in-i crease will be used for con-; con-; struction of a nursing home facilitiy at the hospital if the measure is approved by the matter is to be taken in the near future. A raise was noted in the 1 budget allocated for the Coin-j Coin-j miasioners, from $12,700 to $13,200, most of which will be used for travel expenses during the 'coming year. This year's ' estimated expenditure will be $12,698. 1 The budgets for District ! Court, City and Precinct and Juvenile Court remained at ' i the levels budgeted for 1971, $2,500, $7,000 and $300 re- spectively. - The legal aid budget was ! increase dfrom $1,000 to $3.-1 $3.-1 000 to be applied in the ev-! ev-! tent that the County is forced by court action to pay At-I At-I torney W. C. Lamoreaux for 1 his costs ' in defending two convicted men- in their appeal. ap-peal. This action is presently under advisement. ! The budget for the County Clerk was reduced from' $13, 300 to $16,000 with estimated estimat-ed expenditures for this year $15,950. The budget for the County Recorder remained the same. Fees for the County Attorney At-torney were increased from $10,500 to $10,600 for the coming year while those for the County Treasurer, County Assessor and Extension Service Ser-vice remained the same. The budget for planning and zoning zon-ing was decreased from $1, 500 to $500 for 1972. One substantial drop was noted in the amount allocated allocat-ed for Exhibits and Community Com-munity Promotion with $9, 500 for last year $5,500 budgeted bud-geted for the coming year. A cut was also noted in the budget for Economic Development Devel-opment from $24,000 to $20, 000. Expected expenditures in this department for 1971 are $22,985 which includes some monies allocated for StUUlCS ai uie mm cieeiv Dam site. A raise in expenditures for buildings and grounds maintenance for next year is noted in the change in appropriations ap-propriations from $20,700 for 1971 compared with $23,000 for 1972. This change will cover co-ver the cost of radios for the County in connection with the new high frequency radio network being installed by the law enforcement agencies within the County. Budget for the Moab Museum will remain constant for next year at $4,700. County elections, which occur every two years, will receive $5,500. The election expenditures in 1970 were $4, 930. Cost of the annual County Coun-ty audit will increase next year from $2,100 to $2,750. Non-departmental expenditures expendi-tures were also raised ot take care of miscellaneous expenses. Next year's budget is set at $21,000 compared with $17,000 for this year. Actual expenditures for this year were $17,362. . The need for a new car and additional radio equipment equip-ment raised tlie budget for the Sheriff's department, from $48,000 in 1971 to $50 000 for 1972. Last year thera was $300 allocated for the fire warden, however, if the County decides to have a full time warden this amount must be raised and $1,500 has been appropriated to cover that additional cost. The Civil Defense budget was dropped from $4,700 to $4,000 with $3,760 being spent in the current year. The budget for health and welfare will remain at $23, OCO. The Medicare budget remains re-mains at $2,000 which is regained re-gained in revenues if the money is needed; Park and recreation and the Senior Citizen Ci-tizen allocations will remain at $9,000 and $1,000 respectively. General tund ouugeung 101 1972 is tentatively set at $317, 350 compared with $299,100 for 1971 and actual expenditures expendi-tures of $283,438 for this year. An error in budgeting occurred oc-curred in the County road fund last year when only $71, 700 was budgeted. Actual expenditures ex-penditures were listed at $92, 498 and next year's budget will be $95,000. Funds from the Collector Road fund for this coming year will be $5;-400. $5;-400. The largest increase in the budget will be for renovation reno-vation of tlie airport with $401,133 to be budgeted. Most of this money, however, will come from State and Federal Feder-al grants. With the addition of the monies to be used for the Library, Moab Mosquito District, Elgin Mosquito District, Dis-trict, Bond Interest and rincc '-1V Tfnnrts outrun, aiiu all of which are included in the mill levy and remain constant, the total budget for 1972 is listed at $949,683, compared com-pared with . $522,565 for last year. The County Commission has scheduled a public hearing hear-ing on the budget for December Decem-ber 13, and residents having questions or wishing changes in the budget should appear before the Commission at that time. |