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Show Lindon Council Adopts Budget For New Year Lindon City Councilmen met on Monidlay evening for a regular session ses-sion to adopt a new proposed budget bud-get for 1957 as well as discuss and accept new committee jobs as recommended by Mayor Harold Keetch. The following budget for this year was adopted, based on an anticipated an-ticipated revenue of $24,300 representing repre-senting an increase of $2,200 over the 1956 budget: Expenditures City Water Maintenance, $1,000; City Water Improvements, $8,300; Road Maintenance, $1,200; Road Improvements, $4,700; Council Wages, $1,400; Public Safety, $500; City Employees, $3,600;'. Recorder and Treasurer, $1,200; Miscellaneous Miscellan-eous Expenditures, $2,400; Total Expenditures, $24,300. Councilman Kenneth H. Gillman will retain his position as recreation recrea-tion chairman while Councilmen Ivan Blain and Verl Christiansen serve on the public safety committee. com-mittee. Councilmen Gillman, Owen Hooley, and Ray Walker were named as road committee workers work-ers and Councilmen Walker, Christiansen, Chris-tiansen, and Blain have been placed plac-ed on the water committee. At this same meeting Ralph Wigginton was accepted as the new justice of the peace for the city of Lindon, replacing A. W. Walser who recently resigned! from his position as city judge to fill a mission for the LDS Church.' A salary of $50 a year will be paid Mr. Wigginton (plus court costs.). Other business discussed included includ-ed business licenses and fees which will net the city approximately $350 this year. Lindon has 16 businesses busi-nesses requiring licenses to operate. oper-ate. Since the former dump which served the city of Lindon has been closed the city fathers are concerned con-cerned with the vital problem of disposing of the city's trash and garbage. Mayor Keetch, along with Councilmen Hooley and Blain will meet this week with Orem City in an attempt to solve the problem. prob-lem. Also on the agenda was the screening of particular culverts within the city, the storing of city equipment, and the setting of the tentative date of Feb. 7 for the council's public hearing on proposed pro-posed roads. H. Grant Ivins was retained as this city's attorney and Dr. B. C. Linebaugh as physician. Leonard Walker will continue to serve the city as road worker, water master, mas-ter, and marshal, and Clifford Johnson, as city building inspector. |