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Show Over $2.5 m illio n City ee tentative budget By MIKE CANNON Record Reporter A tentative Cedar City budget for the fiscal 1981-82 year shows expected city revenues totaling approximately $2,696,868. The task of trimming expenditures ex-penditures to match that figure now awaits the City Council. City Manager Joe Melling and Council members spent their Tuesday work session going over the proposed budget in some detail. They will have to evaluate, over the next several weeks, areas of proposed expense in the budget that can be trimmed so the beast will be balanced. A budget hearing will be upcoming and will provide opportunity for public input before the final budget draft is officially adopted. Several major areas in the City will swallow a large chunk of available funds. As usual, streets and roads gobble-up large portions of the overall budget outflow. An estimated $469,830 is being asked for to finance the Street , Department for the year. , Employee salaries will take around $197,000. Maintenance, gas, oil and supplies also require substantial allowances. Another $400,000 may be spent for the seal-coating of streets and construction work on collector roads in the City. This would include work on portions of 300 West. Police Department expenditures are expected to be in the vicinity of $479,436. This would encompass $220,000 for salaries. Fuel requires approximately $28,000 spent; and machinery and equipment, $41,615. The Fire Department is calling for $145,220 to maintain its performance level throughout the 1981-82 year. An additional $110,000 is being asked for to construct a new fire station at the north interchange, along with $90,000 for a new pumper. Administrative costs for the City are expected to run in the neighborhood of $227,875. Building rental, travel and salaries provide the bulk of administrative ad-ministrative expense. Other significant areas of proposed expenditures include judicial costs, which will run the City an estimated $40,665. A Cedar City building inspector, along with neccessary extras, will cost around $31,000. . Approximately $30,220 will be spent by the City to control roaming wild beasts. Salary and supplies will be the major costs in the area of animal control. The -City Engineering Department will require $48,500 according to the proposal. Utilities and professional services will take a major hunk of the total. Also $7,500 is being called for to purchase a new truck. Airport expenses should be about $33,300, with utilities swallowing the largest share of that allotment. Expense for City parks should run at about $81,205. Salaries will take about half this amount, with utilities and supplies taking significant portions. Other areas slated for funds from city revenues in the proposed budget include in-clude recreation, $44,140; the golf course, $63,865; swimming pool, $40,000; library, $66,957; and the cemetery. $54,028. |