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Show 'Break-Even' Budget Approved By Bountiful A detailed budget for 1982 amounting to $383,000 was approved last week by the Bay Area Refuse Disposal (BARD) board of directors. THE "BREAK-even" budget will serve calendar year 1982, according to BARD Manager Elmer W. Barlow who assisted Alan T. Low, Woods Cross, newly appointed board secretary in preparation of the budget. He said expenditures for the year will include $95,000 in debt services for equipment; $19,000 for road maintenance; and about $10,000 for capital outlay which, will include the purchase of a used pickup truck. IN PRESENTING the budget proposal, Mr. Low explained ex-plained to the board that "this is the most comprehensive budget BARD has ever had." At the same time, Bob Gold-sberry, Gold-sberry, of Goldsberry and Associates Certified Public Accounts, gave the board an 0 audit of the BARD financial status for the past year. THIS YEAR'S budget is about ab-out $10,000 less than last year. However, there was a balance of $52,763 from the 1981 budget which was retained for the current budget, the audit report showed. The audit showed total operating oper-ating expenses for 1981 totaled just over $200,000 with the single largest expenditure being $74,120 for equipment repairs and maintenance. Salaries totaled $68,547 with an additional $12,555 for employees' em-ployees' benefits. Depreciation Deprecia-tion on equipment for the year was $34,337. IN OTHER action by the BARD board, they agreed to have a study conducted to determine de-termine how much of the disposal dis-posal site in West Bountiful is still useable and to determine possible alternate disposal sites. They set April 13 as the deadline for receiving reports from four consultant engineers. |