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Show Commissioners Approve County Budget The Board of Iron County Commissioners Com-missioners in special meeting Wednesday afternoon approved a budget of expenditures of slightly slight-ly over $-423,000.00 lor the year of 1954. The budget was officially official-ly approved after a public hearing hear-ing on the proposed expenditures had been held earlier in the day. The total amout of the budget had ben set at $423,436.75, which is equal to anticipated revenues, of which $270,653.18 is from taxes collected this year, and the remainder re-mainder is to come from miscellaneous miscel-laneous fees, hospital revenue, and licenses, and also from Class "B" road funds due the county from the state treasurer. A total of $167,214.05 was approved ap-proved for expenditures for the operation of the Iron County hospital. hos-pital. A major portion of this amount will, however, be offset by fees collected at tr.e hospital during the year. Also included will be $15,000 that will be transferred trans-ferred to construction costs of the new county rest home at Parowan, Par-owan, which is now nearing completion. com-pletion. Funds will also be trans-fered trans-fered to the rest home from two other departments, $25,000 from the general fund, and $15,000 from the indigent. A total of $75,000.00 was budgeted for the rest home, of which $35,170.03 will bo used to pay off a deficit in the fund at the close of business bus-iness in 1953. The total general fund was set at $108,934.41, and the indigent fund at $24,100.97. A fund not heretofore appropriated approp-riated by the county was set up for recreation purposes throughout through-out the county. A total of $7,708.-10 $7,708.-10 was set up for this purpose, to be combined with a similar fund appropriated by the Iron County School District for a county-wide recreation program. Detailed expenditure of this fund was not attempted at this time. However, a recreation committee, composed of representatives of all communities in the county, is making a study of the needs of the various areas and will recommend expenditures for the program. The library fund was listed at $38,638.80, most of which is to be added to the library building fund. The building fund will receive re-ceive $31,000 of this amount, with the balance to be used for maintenance main-tenance of the county libraries in Cedar City and Parowan. A total of $4,804 was Budgeted for maintenance and repairs on airports air-ports of the county. The county road fund was set at $107,068.36, for maintenance and new construction. |