OCR Text |
Show BASB's Doing Well, Financially Anyway By GARY R. BLODGETT BOUNTIFUL -After in the "red" for several years, the Bay Area Refuse Disposal (BARD) is "in the black and functioning economically strong," BARD board of directors were told last week. IN FACT, despite spiraling inflation the 1984 tentative budget proposes only a slight increase in its general fund and a large transfer of capital improvements im-provements funds. BARD Manager Elmer W. Barlow explained. ex-plained. Secretary-Treasurer Alan Low said total revenue expected ex-pected in 1984 will be $396,500, slightly higher than 9 the proposed 1983 budget but about $1,100 less than w hat is now estimated to be collected this year. THE BUDGET also shows an increase in expenditures of $56,000 for purchase of a front-end front-end loader and a dump truck. However, this will not seriously serious-ly affect the capital improvements improve-ments fund which has an estimated esti-mated year-end balance of $193,390 and it was approved to have $106,000 additional money transferred to the capital capit-al improvements fund, bringing bring-ing the capital improvements fund, including anticipated interest in-terest to $317,390. He noted a $19,000 reduction reduc-tion in engineering services not V 9 needed in 1984 as w ell as a reduction re-duction of about $8,600 in road work that will now be done by BARD employees rather than being contracted. THE PROPOSED budget also shows an 1 1 percent increase in-crease in salary to the BARD supervisor and a 6 percent increase in-crease to the assistant supervisor. super-visor. However, no increase in salary was granted last year, Mr. Low explained. He said about $60,000 is expected ex-pected in gate receipts next year, about the same as the current fiscal year. Municipalities, Municipa-lities, however, because of increased in-creased rates, will be up slightly slight-ly as will revenue from commercial com-mercial haulers. |