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Show Farmington budget approved, few turnout for public hearing By MARK EDDINGTON Staff Writer FARMINGTON Aside from a local Boy Scout troop, few bothered to attend a public hearing on the proposed 1992-93 fiscal year budget held Wednesday during the regularly scheduled Farmington City Council meeting. If they had, they would have seen the council unanimously approve a $1.73 million budget, including expenditures ex-penditures of just over $667,000 for a list of 22 prioritized capital projects pro-jects that range from improving city park and recreation areas to installing install-ing new water and sewer lines. Farmington is in the second year of an ambitious five-year-plan that is designed to enhance long-range planning by prioritizing the needs for capital improvements and committing com-mitting substantial monetary resources to meet those needs. Other budget highlights include a $100 monthly raise for the mayor, from $400 to $500. The monthly salaries of City Council members and the Justice Court Judge will remain the same. The budget also provides money to hire another full-time police officer offi-cer and employee for the Public Works Department. In addition, there is a 3 percent increase in the money available for salary increases in-creases that can be given to employees who merit raises. Monthly sewer rates will increase from $9.50 to $10, effective July 1 to reflect the actual cost of service. Each month the Central Davis Sewer Districtwhich assumed control of the city's sewer system last year charges $9 and the city $1 for collecting the fees owed to the district. The city subsidized 50 cents of the rate last year, but will discontinue the subsidy. Despite the additional money, the overall budget is down some 4 percent per-cent from $1.77 million, the amended amount of the 1991-92 fiscal year budget. It is $157,000 more than the initial 1991-92 budget adopted a year ago. The certified cer-tified tax rate will remain the same as last year's at .002161. "I think this budget speaks well of management," said councilman Hank Semadeni. "While revenues have increased, it has come from fees and not by raising taxes." Here is a list of the top 15 capital improvement projects and the money allotted for there completion: comple-tion: Completion of Phase II of Shepard Lane Par k-$ 1 1 2 ,000 Farmington Pond Trail and park development$100,000 Lighting for tennis courts at Mt. ViewPark-$5,000 Park playground equipment at ' Moon Park$6,50O Park benchesdecorative litter containers for the central business district--$3,100. j SEE FISCAL ON A-3 : - J Fiscal CONTINUED FROM A-l Street improvements at Somerset Farm pending drainage corrections by the Somerset Homeowner Association$44,000 Sidewalk improvements along 200 East near Glover's Lane $20,150 Storm sewer detention basin and related landscaping at Burke Lane-$60, 000 Landscaping improvements at 600 North Main and at other city entrances-$12,000 Bicyclejogging path construction construc-tion along frontage road in south Farmington$10,000 Construction of sanitary sewer system in cooperation with Central Davis Sewer District to provide service for BurkeShepard Lane residents-$91,500 Extension of water line to west Farmington pending further negotiations with property owners $50,000 Installation of two new culinary water pressure reduction valve stations on Shepard Lane $45,000 Water corrosion study for South Farmington $5,000 Water line upgrades at 400 and 500 North streets between Main and 100East-$18,000 F |