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Show New County Commission Slashes Budget $10,000 Officials Vote 25 Per Cent Reduction In Amount for Deputy Hire No Annual Financial Report. The new board of county commissioners, commis-sioners, at their regular meeting Monday, voted to cut approximately $10,000,000 from the budget set up for 1033 by the former board. Most of this will come from funds placed in the budget for deputy hire, this j item having been cut 25 per cent from the amount set up by the former board, says the Ephraim Enterprise. It is estimated this will mean a saving sav-ing of some $0,000. The 25 per cent cut will effect the deputies in all department de-partment except the deputy sheriff. The members of the board were of the opinion that the work of the deputy de-puty sheriff is a hazardous employment employ-ment and that, in view of the risk involved, in-volved, the present salary is not unreasonable. un-reasonable. It was pointed out by County Attorney At-torney J. A. Hougaard, in an interview inter-view with a representative of the Enterprise, En-terprise, that the former county commission com-mission left a $2,900 overdraft for the present administration. They had I found it necessary to borrow money to pay current expenses and had succeeded suc-ceeded in negotiating a loan of $10,-000 $10,-000 from up state. When bankers were approached for i a loan by the present administration they looked over the proposed budget bud-get of the county and pointed out that it exceeded the estimated revenues, reve-nues, Mr. Hougaard related. The outgoing out-going board thought they had cut the budget as far as possible but the new-board new-board has slashed another $10,000 from this budget and find it still exceeds ex-ceeds the estimated revenues for 1933. In order to effect the cut of $10,-000 $10,-000 the commissioners proposed a horizontal reduction of 25 per cent in the amount set aside for the various departments. This was discussed at length and it was decided it would probably fail to reach one of the principal features at which the reduction re-duction was aimed, namely the amount spentTfor deputy hire. It was therefore decided that a specific cut of 25 per cent of the amount placed in the budget for deputy hire should be made, with the exception of the deputy sheriff. The cut in the amount appropriated for deputy hire, Mr. Hougaard pointed point-ed out, will result in a reduction of the number of deputies hired or a reduction re-duction in the salaries paid them. Or the principals may avoid the disagreeable disagree-able features of the cut by personally paying the salaries of the deputies. A special meeting of the commissioners commis-sioners was held January 27, at which, time it was discussed how to borrow money on tax anticipation notes for use in the general fund as there was mo money in this fund. Chairman S. M. Nielson reported his efforts toward to-ward trying to borrow money in Salt Lake and said it would be necessary to make further substantial reduction in the budget set up by the outgoing administration in order to meet tha estimated revenues of 1933. Among the other reductions voted by the commissioners at Monday's meeting was the lowering of mileage j allowance of county officials from 8 to 6 cents per mile. The salary of the court house janitor was reduced from $65 to $60 per month and the pay for a man and team was set at $4 and for a single man at $2 per dn on all county work. The commission voted to appropriate approp-riate $150 toward the endeavor being made to keep a junior college within fhe county. They also handled a number num-ber of cases in which citizens sought tax reductions. Four road patrolmen to look after the county roads in their respective districts were appointed as follows: LeRoy H. Lund, Gunnison; Grant B. Jensen, Centerfield; R. M. Johnson, Fountain Green, and Ray H. Reese, Wales. County Clerk E. J. Mortensen took up the publication of the county financial fin-ancial report for 1932 at the special meeting of January 27. The publication publica-tion of this report is required by sec-lion sec-lion 1555 of the compiled lawTs of Utah, 1917. The matter was discussed by the commissioners and, upon motion mo-tion of Commissioner Maylett and seconded by Commissioner Cook, the board voted unanimously to order the clerk not to publish the report until so instructed by the commissioners. |