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Show Parowan City Council approves 1977 Budget PAROWAN - Parowan City has adopted a $157,120 budget for fiscal 1977 it is reported by Other items of business At this meeting the council also approved hiring Jim Broadwell Moore has sent a letter of resignation to the council effective ef-fective June 30. ' The council appointed Willis Robinson as the new inspector. Mayor Kendall Gurr. Hearing on the budget was held on June 8 and formal adoption was made by the Parowan City Council at their meeting on June 16. The general budget does not include electric and sewer budgets, the Mayor reported. Of the total income $35,000 is expected to be generated from property tax with Utah State Sales Tax anticipated to account for $17,000 and licenses and permits another $4000. Revenues from other agencies will amount to $28,720 with the major portion of that expected to come from Revenue Sharing in the amount of $21,920. Charges for current services will provide $36,700 during the year, it is anticipated with 25,000 of that coming from garbage collection. Completing the anticipated revenue portion of the budget is an expected $10,000 from other sources, such as cemetery in- as the new police officer to replace Rick Williamson who has resigned. Broadwell has been previously employed as the animal control officer in Cedar City. He bagan work on the Parowan force on June 16. The council also reviewed a request from Victor Robinson who wished to set up a single wide trailer on 6th West between Center and 1st Street. The request was denied because of the current city ordinance in which single wide trailers must be located in trailer courts unless they are 25 ft. or wider. A discussion was also held on the stall situation at the Parowan Race Track. It was decided that individuals using the stalls for their horses will be required to pay $5.00 per month per stall, to help pay for maintenance there. At the June 16 meeting a representative of the power board met with the council, Morris Rassmussen discussed what the board felt should be terest, building, equipment and land rentals, etc. and another $23,000 is expected from transfers tran-sfers from other funds. Electric Utility charges are expected to bring in $20,000 and water utility will add another $3,000. i. Expenditures were broken down into departments. General government expenses are estimated at $26,000; Public Safety budget was set at $36,200; Public Works expenditures were set at $44,000; Culture, Parks and Recreation will expend $23,000 and miscellaneous items including in-cluding Social Security, Hospital Insurance and Retirement, etc, will cost the city another $17,800. Major expenditures including $12,700 for city office supplies and expenses; $28,500 to operate the police department; $20,000 for garbage collection. In addition ad-dition the budget allows for $14,000 to be used from the Public Works budget for streets and sidewalks, Mayor Gurr indicated. done with expenditures and revenues from the electric utilities. The council is now in the process of discussing a proposed power rate increase, due to costs of supplies and cost of purchasing pur-chasing power. In connection with ttiis they are planning extensive ex-tensive improvements with the sub station to allow more power to come into Parowan. They are also discussing improvements to' the electric lines. The city is proposing to go to a higher voltage. This would give a better voltage in each home. The planning and zoning committee recommended that Mr. H. J. Kincade be granted a varience to build a house where the lot is narrower than the city's approved recommendation. The ordinance reads that building , lots should be 60 ft. wide or more. ; The city granted permission to build on the smaller lot. Building inspector Jay W. |