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<br />Each of the budgets submitted to City Councils in recent past <br /> <br />years has been balanced and in that fact the City has enjoyed good fortune. <br /> <br />In order to equalize revenue and expenditures for the coming year, and <br /> <br />such has been true in the past, it has been neces sary to reject or postpone <br /> <br />a number of projects, plans and programs that would contribute to the <br /> <br />betterment of the city and its people. Likewise in programs that have <br /> <br />been included, desired appropriations have in several cases been reduced <br /> <br />that a portion of the program might be undertaken. Operating expenses <br /> <br />for the departments of the city government have been studied and reviewed <br /> <br />and pared to the minimum necessary for efficient performance and con- <br /> <br />sistent with a growing city. <br /> <br />.....,.,r" <br /> <br />The total proposed expenditures - -with a like total revenue-- <br /> <br />would be $3,555,600.99. It is interesting to note that this budget would <br /> <br /> <br />be 7.5% higher than the adopted budget of $3,307,386.82 at the opening <br /> <br /> <br />of the 1956 - 57 fis cal year and 31. 80/0 above the adopted budget of five <br /> <br /> <br />years ago. 1952-53, which was in the amount of $2.696,000.00. These <br /> <br />increases are not startling when it is considered that the municipal <br /> <br />government is faced with the same spiral of cost of materials, personnel <br /> <br />and services as everyone else from the private business to the housewife. <br /> <br />During the current year, 1956-57, it was possible to achieve <br /> <br />a goal that had been 5 et as an object of endeavor. That was to go through <br /> <br />the year without resorting to the borrowing of money from commercial <br /> <br />- 2 - <br />