Show PUBLIC WELFARE commission AP PROVES ESTIMATE the public welfare commission friday approved estimates of expenditures of the 29 county departments of public welfare for 1945 totaling plus state department administration costs amounting to operation of the public assistance and welfare program in utah during 1945 therefore is expected to cost just under 10 million under utah law county welfare boards are required to submit for approval of the state bonu commission cission estimates to cost of operation of the welfare program in their respective counties following commission approval the county welfare boards certify these amounts to their respective county commissions for the purpose of determining the amount of the levy necessary to raise the countes coun tys share in the cost of the welfare program set by law at 15 percent the portion of the estimated cost for 1945 which the boards of county commissioners ners of the 29 counties will have to raise total approximately 15 millon tha balance will be furnished by the tate and federal under io ision of the social security act it ex exec tid that the federal share will mount to 38 million nul lion cost to the tate fate to be financed from sales tax ads ids Is estimated at 47 million the estimated 10 million expenditure 1045 is 17 percent higher than es nat nates for ISM it is expected however that expenditures will total roughly ehly less than estimated A C burton burto director of the departments bugeau of finance panted out mr burton said that estimates luring during t fee ze last four years have ir in each instance in stanca been greater than the amount actually spent in 1943 actual expenditures fell CG below bebow estimates in IV 1942 2 in hi 1941 co CAie ne ii ing on welfare commissioner J parley white pointed out that the annual estimates sub submitted mi tte d by county welfare bo boards ai dsa are x e the only data on which the county commission eis base their determination of ho how much to levy in order to pay their share of the cost of welfare assigned to them under law in view of this we ve have lem leen more anxious that the estimates axe are high enough to meet eventualities than we are to hold them uon wn too closely we take the attitude that it would be unfair to the county taxing units it if the state commission cuts estimates down to the point where we might have to go 90 back later and ask the county commissioners to make an additional levy surpluses that might accumulate as a result of overestimates so fo the cost of welfare are carried over to reduce the amount needed for the following year the estimated 1915 expenditures for state administration including child welfare services commodity comm odit distribution and mert system operation are percent ower than estimates for 1944 the estimate of for this item in 1945 however is 67 percent higher than expected expenditures for the current year with two months yet to be recorded november and december estimated amount needed to make assistance si payments wid and for administration in rich county for 1945 was set at mr J earl stuart chairman of the rich county board of public welfare said of this amount the county is exacted to pay |