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Show Tentative Bindget OK By GARY R. BLODGETT BOUNTIFUL - Bounti-ful's Bounti-ful's 1983-84 proposed enterprise enter-prise budgets - those other than the city's general fund budget - were given tentative approval of the City Council last Wednesday night. THE PROPOSED budgets were for the city-owned Power and Light Department. Sanita- tion Department, Sewer Department. De-partment. Water Department and Golf Course. The city's Recreation Department Budget was delayed. Each of the departments included in-cluded operation and maintenance mainte-nance expenses and capital improvement im-provement expenditures for 1983-84 as compared to 1982-83 1982-83 and a tentative look at proposed prop-osed expenditures for the next three years. IN THE Power and Light Department, City Manager Tom Hardy, who made the presentations to the council, noted a proposed rate increase amounting to about 1 8 percent. This increase, he explained, is the first increase in three years - thus providing a 6 percent per year rate hike. "Even with the 18 percent increase per family, city power rates will still be 40 percent be- low power rates of neighboring cities using Utah Power and Light electricity," said Mr. Hardy. ACTUAL expenditures for this department arc expected to be about S6.5 million in 1983-84 compared to just under S5 million this fiscal year. "Most of this increase c;in be attributed to tremendous increases in-creases in the cost of purchasing purchas-ing power." the cily manager noted. "There's no more cheap power available and a power rate increase is necessary neces-sary for the department to op-crate op-crate in the black." ALSO. CAPITAL improvement improve-ment expenditures next fiscal year will total nearly S3 million, mil-lion, including S2 million car-marked car-marked for Moon Lake and for Lost Creek Dam hvdro-clcclric facilities. Sanitation and Sewer Departments De-partments will also "i.itk on" a 2.S cents per family rate increase in-crease beginning July I to help olfset mounting costs. IN THE Sanitation Department, Depart-ment, most of the money will be used for future purchase of new mechanized garbage pickup pick-up trucks to replace the existing ex-isting vehicles. "These trucks are not planned for purchase now, hut they will be needed soon." said Mr. Hardy. Otherwise, the department's depart-ment's budget is Will. IMKI, compared to VStD. 011(1 this year. Nearly S I 'Kl.tKKI is the city's ci-ty's share of operation of the Hay Area Refuse Disposal (HARD) landfill site. EXPECTED expenditures for the city-ow ned doll Coin se will be S33K.4fM). an increase of about H) percent over this year. Mr. Hardy noted a record re-cord high attendance at the course last summer. An increase ol 25 cents per round weekends and 50 cents per round weekdays - to a total tot-al of S3. 50 per nine holes --went --went into allett this spring. 1 HERE IS no increase in the city's Water Department where the I9K3-M proposed budget is slightly less than the current budget - down about S2 00 from S8X0.78I to SXX0.145. Another council work session ses-sion -- this one to discuss the cr'y's maintenance, operation and capital improvements budgets -- will be held tonight (Wednesday) at 7 p.m. in City Hall. T he required public hearing hear-ing will be Wednesday, May 25, at 7:30 p.m.. but even the work sessions are open to the public. |