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Show City Council Tentatively Budgets Expenditures for Various Depts. The City Council at its meeting last Thursday began consideration considera-tion of a budget of expenditures for 1955, with the total budget tentatively set at $296,929.38. This amount is slightly lower, about $8,000, than the budget for the current year. A number of changes in the department expenditures are suggested in the tentative budget, bud-get, according to Mayor Arnold Anderson, but the total of all i expenditures will not be much I different for 1955. I The general fund budget for the coming year has been tentatively tenta-tively set at $38,799, which is considerably lower than the amount budgeted for this year. The fund for the current yearj was set at $54,416.05. A jump in the budget for streets is contemplated contem-plated with the tentative budget bud-get carrying a total of $36,024 for this purpose as compared to $27,37j this year. An increase in the water department budget is also noted, with the 1955 figure set at $78,350 as compared to $74,600 this year. Sewer Budget Down While the water department budget is up, the amount considered con-sidered for the sewer system is slightly lower in the tentative budget than that of the 1954 budget. A total of $19,215.12 was budgeted for this department this year, while the figure for next 'year is set at $18,290. An increase in public safety expenditures is contemplated with the figure for 1955 now set at $50,531.39 as compared com-pared to $48,432 in the 1954 budget. bud-get. Amounts set up for other departments, de-partments, with the amounts for 1954 in parentheses, are as follows: City and County building build-ing expense, $4,531.35 ($4,069.90); parks and public property, $20,-146.51 $20,-146.51 ($27,694.00); airports, $10,-594.57 $10,-594.57 (14,269.00); library, $7,962.-51 $7,962.-51 ($7,928.20). Other Obligations The balance of the budget will include in addition tooperating funds for the above-mentioned moneys for bond retirement, interest in-terest and sinking funds, and special improvement payments. Among these are two water bond issues, one a revenue bond and the other a general obligation bond; a special park improvement improve-ment bond issue, and a sewer bond issue. Each of the water bonds carry yearly payments of $13,000 plus interest, while the park bonds must be paid off in 1955, and the sewer bonds are to be retired by 1959. The Council will consider the budget further at future meetings, meet-ings, and late in the month a public hearing will be held for final adoption of the budget. This must be done before the end of 1954, and final adoption will probably be made on Dec. 30 or 31. |