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Show City Budget For Year 1934 Set Up One of the main items of business ! .taken up by the city officers In I their regular session Saturday night i was the consideration of the tenta-l tive 1934 city budget of estimated1 revenues and proposed disburse-j merits as prepared and submitted1 by Mayor Warren Anderson and! City Recorded Thomas A. Barratt The proposed budget with a few changes received the council's approval, ap-proval, and the public healing- with respect to the adoption of the budget bud-get will be held Wednesday evening December 20th, at 8 p. m.'in the ' city hall. ; The tentative budget is figured from an estimated revenue for 1934 ' of $31,425.00. Of this 0m,r,f t,. ' 5 1 largest portion comes from the I' jcity tax levy of 15 mills on an ap-' ! t. proximate valuation of $1,333 072 00 ' L j ($20,056.00) less delinquent allow- i l ance of $3,056.00, leaving a balance i of $17,000.00 due from this source of r veuue. The next items of income for the city coffers are licenses in . the amount of $1,350.00, cemetery, $1,500.00; back taxes, $1,500.00, and water rates, $9,000.00. Minor 'items such as rent on real. estate, fines, meter installations, interest and premiums, building and plumbing permits, dog taxes, refunds, estray pound, use and sale of city property make up the balance of the total estimated revenues. The laxgest item in the expenditure expendi-ture column is that of bonds and interest in the amount of $10,250.00. Next comes electric lights, $3,600.00; police department, $3,000.00; street and alleys, $2,200.00; waterworks and installation of new hydrants, $1,850,00; cemetery, $1,800.00; salaries, salar-ies, 1,610.00; public library, $1,105.00; contingent (Bond and Recreation) $1,105.00; fire department, $800.00. Other minor items of expense such as public property, printing and advertising; ad-vertising; stationery, prisoners, civil' suits and criminal prosecution, poor and indigent, fuel, estray pound, quarantine, insurance, memorial pro- uesu oring xne total proposed disbursements dis-bursements to $31,425.00. FIREMEN PREPARING COMMUNITY TREE TREAT The firemen are going forward with their preparations for the annual ann-ual Christmas treat which is given on the afternoon of each Christmas Eve to all the children of the community com-munity when they gather at the tree in the city park. A special invitation invita-tion to Santa Claus has been sent and the firemen assure the kiddies that this jolly person will be there. To help raise funds for the treat the fire laddies sponsored a dance in the apollo which was quite well attended Wednesday night. Not enough money was realized, however, how-ever, to cover the cost and another entertainment will be given within a few days to increase, the fund. NURSERY CLASS HAS ENROLLMENT OF 27 A nursery class has been established estab-lished in American Fork as a part of the relief program under the new CWA set-up. The class has been organized for a two fold purpose: To establish and insure proper nourishment nourish-ment and normal social development develop-ment for children whose parents are now on the relief rolls of the city, and also to insure employment for teachers who are properly certified certi-fied for this work and who are unemployed. un-employed. Up to Wednesday twenty-seven kiddies under six years of age are enrolled in the nursery school which is held from 9 a. m. until 12 noon , each school day. . The teachers in charge are Miss Vivian Jdrgsnsen and Miss Bernice Miller, graduates of the Normal department of the B. Y. U. At noon, assisted by eon is. served the kiddies. A dietician from the county RFC department has worked out the menu and the children will be given food to assist as-sist in maintaining, good nutrition. Each child has been weighted and given a thorough physical examination examin-ation the purpose of the classes being be-ing not only to direct along educational educa-tional lines but to look to their physical phy-sical welfare as well. The class is held in the Harrington Harring-ton school building. The educational education-al training is under the supervision of the Alpine District School Board-. The food for the luncheons is supplied sup-plied through RFC channels. |