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Show City Passes Budget Affer Thursday Hearing Only about six residents appeared ap-peared last Thursday at the annual City of Moab budget hearing. Mayor Winford Bun-ce Bun-ce indicated that most of the discussion about expenditur. es in the budget stemmed from an increase in police department expenditures for the coming year. A Federal program for hiring veterans accounted for some $9,000 of the increase, the Mayor stated, stat-ed, and even though this money will be repaid to the City, it must be included in the budget. There were some questions about the City's agreement to pay an additional 42 per cent, in employee retirement benefits, however it was pointed out that the raise in retirement benefits was given giv-en rather than raises in salary. sal-ary. Following the discussion, the budget was passed with only minor changes and is tt about $309,000, up some $15 thousand from the budget for last year. |