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Show UTAH ROADS TO GET $3,274,783 FOR 1927 WORK Some $3,274,783.32 will pass through the hands of the state road commission this year under the department's budget now half completed. Summary of this budget prepared by C. F. Dean, chief accountant for the department, shows from what source the road dollar is received and what it has been spent or will be spent for this year. Federal aid will be the largest single source-of revenue yielding $1,553,469.16. The surplus from collections, gasoline taxes and motor vehicle registrations brought in an additional $1,189,000. However the road department was forced to draw on this to the extent of $315,000 to complete its highway program pro-gram of 1926 leaving a net of only $674,000 from this later source. The collections made by the. public utilities commission from auto stage taxes, it is estimated, will yield about $20,000. The rental of equipment to counties will add an additional $60,000. Boards of county commissioners will be called on for a total of $659,597 to match federal aid in highway construction construc-tion and railroads will be asked to add $1000 to this because of overhead crossings cross-ings and line changes which will benefit bene-fit the railroads. ' The year's construction program calls for $2,234,940. General maintenance will add $624,698 to the expenditures and $142,765 will be spent for betterment better-ment projects. The construction program pro-gram is made up entirely of federal aid projects while the betterment construction construc-tion includes only minor line changes and improvements which add to the capital investment in the road grade. General office administration in-cluding in-cluding salaries of all office employes and heads of departments will take about $60,000; maintenance administration administra-tion an additional $35,000; the purchase of equipment, repairs to equipment and general supplies, $110,216.32. About $67,-164 $67,-164 additional has been set up for the oiling of highways. The expenditure under the budget will exceed the revenue, but expenditures expendi-tures are largely estimates while the revenue is more of a known sum. Hence the state road commission anticipates savings in some of the expense items to live within its revenue. |
