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Show Bountiful sets $20.78 million budget7 By GARY R BLODGETT BOUNTIFUL A tentative budget totaling $20,784,716 for fiscal year 1989-90 has been given preliminary approval by the Bountiful : City Council. ,- Bat there are still some budget proposals which have not been in- , eluded in the tentative budget, explained City Manager Tom Hardy. If these proposals are finally accepted, the budget figure would increase in-crease by about $450,000. ' '- -' ! - The first draft presented to the Bountiful City Council, however, is . even less than last year's budget of $21,239,1 19. "But with the pro-posed pro-posed increases presented to the council last Tuesday night, the final budget request will be very close to the current year's budget," he " noted. ''-, .' : ' The council will review the proposed budget tonight and on May 24 before fmalizing the figures and presenting the budget to the public pub-lic at a public hearing on Wednesday, June 14, at 7:30 p.m. Final adoption of the budget by the council is expected to follow the public hearing, or could be delayed for up to two weeks. The ,.' ; budget will cover the period from July 1, 1989, to June 30, 1990. ; The council agreed last Wednesday night that there will be no in-: crease in sale of property taxes and no rate increases in utilities or franchise taxes. - : ' S Mr. Hardy noted that Bountiful's tax structure has declined from 113 mills in 1980 to 9.13 mills in 1987. Under a new classification since then, the tax base has declined from J001832 to the 1989-90 rateof .001783. -' 1 He told the council that the Davis County tax rate will remain the same as last fiscal year, but that the school district and special im-.. im-.. provement districts have not yet adopted their tax rales for next fiscal year. . . , - Still to be considered for next fiscal year's budget are: : Salary cost-of-living increases which will amount to $71,000 for each one percent increase; reclassification of certain city jobs, $190,600; hiring of four additional personnel, $118,827; and about $40,000 for animal controL Among the anticipated revenues, sale of electrical power from the city-owned power and light department tops the list with $9.7 million-more than 45 percent of the total budget Sales tax reimbursements reim-bursements account for about $23 million; property taxes amount to nearly $13 million; sale of culinary water, $1.18 million; and franchise fran-chise taxes, $1.15 million. Interest from invested money will amount . to about $850,000. Refuse collection fees total about $760,000; sewer fees, $638,000; golf course fees and cart rentals; $563,000; Class "C" road fund (from the state), $490,000; swimming pools; $335,000; and recreation recrea-tion fees and lessons, $91,500. Leading the list of expenditures is the Power and Light Department, Depart-ment, $14.56 million. Street repairs amount to $224 million; police department, just over $2 million; water department, $1.84 million; and swimming pools, recreation and ice rink, just over $1 million. - |