| Show county tax payers show keen interest in budget hearing new and old commissioners sit in session tuesday and whittle wh ittle down 1939 budget 4 new court bourt house move defeated when taxpayers learn financial condition ot of county the duchesne county court n house aae se was the scene of great activity tuesday when commissioners sat in session for the purpose of adopting a budget for 1939 the budget hearing had been duly advertised and commissioners had also called a mass meeting for the purpose of discussing the feasibility of setting up a project for the erection of a new court house at duchesne the 1938 revised budget was approved after which discussion centered on the proposed new budget for 1939 parley lambert chairman of the duchesne county commission explained to the citizens present some of the serious conditions confronting the county four years ago mr lambert said the county was more than in the red in the general fund in addition to its bonded indebtedness at the present time the general fund debt has been whittled down to approximately commissioner young dealt at some length on county roads reporting that actually more work has been done on roads and bridges during the past four years than had been done in the ten preceding years roosevelt delegation A number of roosevelt people were present as well as taxpayers in other communities in the county members of the roosevelt delegation eg t on expressed ap themselves both co collectively a lec tj y and as individual tax payers as highly pleased with the progress made by the commissioners in county business in discussing the budget they pointed out that they were interested in seeing the budget held within a sate safe margin of the anticipated revenue gives information john E chairman of the roosevelt lions delegation who is also recorder for the city of roosevelt and who has had several years experience in framing and drawing up budgets both for the city of roosevelt and tor for tile the duchesne county school board of which he is a member explained the essential and important things to be done in training framing a budget mass Ale meeting ethiL the mass ine meeting eting which was called by the commissioners for the purpose of feeling out the pulse of the tax payers concerning ing the construction of a new court court house ended in a general dis cuss cassion ion of the present financial condition of the county and as soon as the true condition was understood der stood by the majority present it was evident what the decision of the commissio commissioners neis would be as to the construction of the new building the sum of was cut from the proposed 1939 budget making its total read 61 this figure is based upon an ail anticipated revenue of which was calculated on a 9 percent collection outstanding changes in the budget include a reduction of in the sheriffs expenses from to the setting up of for a county agent and increasing inc reasin the weed eradication fund from to 2 following is the approved budget accepted by tile the present commissioners commissio ners and endorsed by the incoming officers road and bridge clerk sheriff spoor assessor poor and indigent recorder treasurer 2900 GO attorney 1000 00 commissioners physician and health district court justice court court I 1 louse house 1500 00 prison expense vital statistics heat light telephone hone miscellaneous 0 transient livestock county coi anty audit advertising election I 1 county agent agena weeds 2 I 1 total |
