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Show ; Centerville adopts $2 million proposed budget for 1987-88 By TOM HARALDSEN CENTERVILLE City coun-:il coun-:il has given tentative approval to a 12 million budget for fiscal year .988, a budget that is just over 25,000 less than the current fiscal 'ear amount. ; In adopting the tentative budget, 'he council also set a public hearing lor June 2 at 8 p.m. After public input, the final budget will be adopted at that time. Tentatively approved was a $2,004,435 budget, which is $25,319 less than the current estimated esti-mated year total. A quick overview of the amount shows a decrease of just over $12,000 in estimated property tax revenues, a $48,000 decrease in licenses and permits revenue re-venue due to newly adopted fees that take effect next January 1 , and a reduction of nearly $50,000 in contributions and transfers. Areas where revenues are projected pro-jected to increase include sales tax ($24,950), charges for services ($34,330), and intergovernmental revenues, up just over $39,000. The latter amount includes a Community Com-munity Development Block Grant for $140,000, which the city received re-ceived for acquisition of property for a new fire station in the South Davis Fire District. The budget amount obviously means spending in some areas will be reduced next year. Among those areas with decreased expenditures ex-penditures are streets (down $146,401), storm drain and flood control (down $127,900, as most of the projects in the city have been completed), and police (down being the $140,000 CDBG monies; and public works administration, which was not part of the current budget but which has a $114,272 appropriation entered for next year. The approval came with one provision, pro-vision, that no road projects be started until each is discussed by the council. Currently seven road projects have been identified as priorities next year, and each will be discussed in council before engineering en-gineering work begins. H cr o ft) & S- o e 2. a o- o n City administrator David Hales pointed out that the budget does not include nnv ta inrrpace Ho due to completion of projects funded for 1987 and do not reflect - cutbacks in services.- -u - Areas where expenditures will increase next year include legislative, legisla-tive, up $14,600; elections, budgeted for $4,1 15 (there were no elections in Centerville this fiscal year), the school crossing program, prog-ram, up $23,437, and sanitation, up $30,498. The two largest increases are in fire, up $174,071, the bulk of that added that residents may be subjected sub-jected to two increases: in residential residen-tial garbage collection, and in. water. ,-., "The water rates will likely increase in-crease by $1 a month for residents. The purpose is to raise money over the next three years to pay back a $ 1 10,000 debt in the water development develop-ment fund. The garbage rate increase in-crease is not final, but is based on Continued Page 2 Centerville City budget Continued from Page 1 what the county Burn Plant has estimate it will cost to haul refuge to that location," Mr. Hales explained, ex-plained, Copies of the proposed budget are available at the Centerville City offices between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. daily. The city council is encouraging encourag-ing citizens who may no be able to attend the June 2 meeting to call or write to either Mayor Dean Argyle or Mr. Hales with suggestions or comments. |
