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Show 1992. County Budget Down At $3,217,804 At $3,217,804, Garfield County's budget for 1992 is down $446,000 from 199 l's budget as the county's three commissioner worked to keep a strong rein on expenditures. ex-penditures. Commissioners Tom Hatch, Sherrell Ott and Louise Listen Lis-ten adopted the budget Dec. 18. Anticipated revenues expected to be up significantly for 1992 include general sales and use taxes (up $10,000), transient room taxes (up $20,000), class B road funds (up $70,000), court clerk costs, fees and charges (up $5,000), corrective fees, jail (up $5,000), state payments in lieu of taxes (up $72,000), and county fair (up $4,000). Anticipated revenues expected to be down significantly for 1992 include Forest reserve (down $40,000), federal payments in lieu of taxes (down $5,000), Burr Trail (down $500,000), special police services (down $5,000), miscellaneous miscella-neous services (down $2,000), justice jus-tice of the peace fines and forfeitures forfei-tures (down $30,000), interest earn- I 1 . 5 ings (down $30,000), and sale of materials and supplies (down $2,000). "Revenues are simply not keeping keep-ing pace with demands," said Commissioner Com-missioner Ott, "and it was necessary neces-sary to make substantial cuts. We started at $3.5 million and managed to pare off almost $300,000. Anticipated expenditures expected ex-pected to increase will include district dis-trict court and circuit courts (up $20,200), assessor's office (up $1,200) assessing and collecting (up $3,000), sheriffs office (up $18,100), emergency communications communica-tions (up $1,200), search and rescue (up $3,200), civil defense (up $3,500), indigent (up $1,000), council on aging (up $5,000), sanitation sani-tation (up $59,700), television (up $1,000), libraries (up $2,700), airport air-port (up $1,300), queen pageant (up $1,300), and transient room (up $20,000). Anticipated expenditures expected ex-pected to decrease in 1992 include justice of the peace court (down $2,800), clerk's office (down $1,700), attorney's office (down $1,000), elections (down $1,500), planning and zoning (down $2,100), jail (down $6,000), ambulance ambu-lance (down $15,500), flood control (down $16,360), and class B road program (down $480,000). Ott said that no county employees employ-ees received wage or salary increases this year. The increase of revenues in class B road funds comes largely from the county's increased tourism, Ott said. The county is allocated funds from the state on a complicated formula basis with state gas taxes an important source of funding to maintain the county's nearly 1,000 miles of roads. The $500,000 allocated to the Burr Trail comes from funds already on hand and will be used to improve im-prove the switchbacks on the road as soon as the latest court battle is resolved. |
