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Collection: Newspapers > Nevada City Grass Valley Nugget

August 19, 1949 (8 pages)

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se a” * “> . wi) @ » &€ > pt SUPERVISORS OPEN BUDGET SESSION SAT. (continued from page 1) board of equalization summons, $250; remain unchanged from last year. The district attorney wants to spend $175 more this year than last. Increases are reflected in a $25 boost to $325 for law publications, $150 boost to $200 for conventions, $30 jump to $150 in telephone and telegraph, and $20 raise to $50 for postage. Only decrease is $50 for stationery and office supplies with ‘a budget request of $200. Unchanged are salaries, $5,800; traveling, $250; Sobriety tests, $150; criminal trials, $100; equipment service, $50; miscellaneous, $100; typewrtier, $150; criminal investigation, $2,500. Elimination of $200 mlscelian: eous expenses permits the coroner’s budget requests to remain unchanged at $1,750. Laboratory examinations continue at $150. Convention expense is doubled to $100, autopsies raised $100 to $700 and inquests $50 to $800. The only boost the public administrator asks is a $50 increase in convention expenses to $100. Unchanged are salary, $1,000; advertising, $100; office supplies, $50. Surveyor has boosted requests $225. Abandonment of roads is a new item at $200 and the-$25 is accounted for in a boost to $125 for office equipment. Convention expensés are jumped from $50 to $150, the $100 increase balanced by elimination of $100 office rent. Unchanged are surveys, $500; map work, $500; office supplies, $75; traveling, $50. County planning commission budget request is down $100 accounted for by a drop to $150 for inspection of county projects. Unchanged are requests: for $150 for inspecting roads, and $100 for advertising and expenses. Elections ‘expenses for next year are budgeted at $17,050; $9,650 for primary; and $7,400 for specials. ye Registration of voters expenses have been halved to $750. Blanks and supplies, and ‘purging have been cut out this year for @ $1,000 saving. $250 was added to actual registering for a $750 request. Superior court budget is up $150 from last year. Elisor and alienists fees were upped $100 to $250, and telephone and _ telegraph expenses are $50 higher at $150. All other requests are unchanged. Salary, $2,950; foreign judges, $250; stationery and ofoffice supplies, $100; law publications, $300; psychopathic examinations, $500; jury meals, $150. Nevada township justice court is up $100 over last year’s $2,500. $25 increases are reflected in requests for telephone and _telegraph expenses, $100; postage, $50. Convention expense is doubled from $50 to $100. Unchanged are salary, $2,100; stationery, $100; juries, $150. Grass Valley township justice court is budgeted at $2,575, an increase of $150 over last year. Juries, and stationery and office supplies each are boosted $50 to $150; and telephone and postage costs are higher by $25 each. Salary is unchanged at $2,100. Meadow Lake township expenses are up $100 to $2,400, according to the budget. requests. A new item of $75 for juries and a $25 increase in postage expenses account for the boost. Trial jury budget is slashed $600 by eliminating $500 return of jury fees and $100 for jury meals. This year’s budget request is $3,750. The grand jury ‘asks to have its fees and mileage doubled to $2,000, 9 8" Law library budget request is unchanged .at $1,200. A $600 cut is effected in superior court operating expenses. A reduttion of $150 to $1,500 for transcribing and a $700 slash to $500 for extra reporter accounts for the reduced budget. The court asks a $50 increase in supplies at $150, and a $100 boost to $400 for coroner’s inquests. New expenditures of $7,150 capital outlay for the courthouse, and a 100 per centyboost in: fuel oil needs result in a climb of $7,985 in the budget requests for operation of the building. New installations are furnace for jail, $2,600; road commissioner’s office, $2,000; lights in treasurer’s and judge’s offices, $150; escape, $1,500; air conditioning, $600; law library shelving, $300. Boosts in maintenance include $400 for power and lights to $1,000; $1,300 jump in fuel oil to $2,500; $10 jump in water to $160; $25 boost in laundry and garbage to $125; $450 climb in equipment services to $1,200. Unchanged are salaries, $4,200; painting and cleaning, $500; extra help, $150. A new department this year is the purchasing agent, budgeted fire . . PRESIDENT PLAZA DIRECTS OPERATIONS AMBATO, ECUADOR—President Galo Plaza (center) stands with a group of natives among the ruins of Ambato Cathedral where 60 children died when an earthquake interrupted their religious instruction. Estimates run as high as 5,000 killed and 100,Ged homeless. at $2,000. Salary, $1,200; supplies, $300; postage, $100; telepnone ind telegraph, $150; mileage, $50; lockers, $200. The sheriff's budget requests are $215 less this year than last. Boosts in requests this year include $50 for telephone and telegraph to a $725 need. Convention expense request is boosted from last year’s $50 to $200 for this year. Attorney general’s conference expense is $325 up $45. Equipment ‘repairs at $840 is up $240. A $310 camera and: $540 recording machine are new items for capital outlay. Cuts are $250, radio equipment, $500; $350, miscellaneous, zero. Expenses of the county jail are budgeted $120 less than last year. Board of prisoners at $6,500 is down $700, equipment at $500 is down $200, repairs at Truckee at $400 is down $375, Truckee supplies at $500 is down $100. Expenses for matrons are $1,050, up $280; board of prisoners at Truckee at $1,600 is up $1,500. New expenses are $300 for supplies and $775 for oil and public utility district. Convention expenses for constables were doubled to $100 from last year’s $50. A $25 miscellaneous expense was eliminated’ to result in a $25 total increase in this year’s budget request. lecorder’s budget request this year is $1,400 less than iast year. Most of this is accounted for by elimination of $1,140.83 spent for a book rack in 1948. Other slashes are $200 for books leaving this year’s request at $1,u00 and a $410 cut in equipment needs. $100 is budgeted for this year, Convention expenses are doubled from $50 to $100, telephone and telegraph are $70 up $30, and stationery and supplies are $650 up $250. Budgeted printing at $89 and postage. at $100 are new. The agricultural commissioner wants to spend $1,610 more this year than last. Capital outlay accounts for most of it with the purchase of a truck at $1,890, and $250 for maintenance and operation. Other capital outlays are test. tank, $150; 10 50-pound weights, $100. Only boost in the budget is office supplies, $5, up $25. Predatory animal control budget is unchanged. Salary of trapper, $1,980; traveling, $720. Agricultural extension service boosted its budget $65. Office equipment at $400 was doubled, and car operation. at $650 is up $150. Decreases were made in stationery $100 down $200, telephone $180 down $20, travel $60 down $40, and postage sliced in half to $25. State division ‘of forestry unchanged. All insurance this year will cost the county $3,100 more according to budget requests. Compensation insurance at $5,000 is up $2,000; fire and burglary at $4,00 is up $200; publie liability at $4,500 is up $500; and surety bonds at $1,500 is up $400. The county spent $9,845.94 last year of a budgeted $12,600 for insurance. Radio communication changed at $6,560. A $20 decrease for Truckee health officer is the only change from last year’s budget for the health officer. Vital statistics in unchanged at $250. A $5,000 increase is asked. for care of tubercular patients at Weimar sanitarium. The request is $30,000. Abandonment of supervisors’ road districts which occurred July 1 and transfer of their functions to the office of road commissioner eliminated five sections of the budget but did not prevent an increase in cost of constructions and maintenance of county roads by consolidation into one district. Last year the supervisors
spent $210,496.23 on the county’s roads. This year’s budget requests call for $268,937.73. The Nugget is is unis carrying a separate analysis of the road program in another part of this issue. A new budget request this year calls for $120,000 to be used with state funds for surveys and repairs of county road projects under new state laws. A leap of $72,690 in budget needs for. veterans buildings is caused by $59,865 budgeted for Nevada City and $30,000 for Donner Summit. The budget calls for id.9:0 for veterans buildings. this year. $11,280 is sliced from the Grass. Valley building fund through . elimination of capital outlay and a $2,500 salary slash to $2,000. A $550 insurance payment is not budgeted this year and repairs are reduced to $200 from last year’s $1,009. Merchandise supplies are down $200 to $300. Extra help was doubled to $509 and lights and gas were insreastd $100 over last year’s $500. Budget needs for the Truckee veterans memorial, building are up $1,125. Lights and gas almost .ouvicd to $725. Heating is $600 up $100, and building repairs ave quadrupled to $2,000. Rent of quarters for the Nevada City Veterans of Foreign Wars chapter . was reduced from $210 to $290. The county hospital estimates it can operate for $3,010.50 les: van last year’s budget request. This year request is $170,497. Actual expenses last year were 3173,497.61. A $1,000 portable X-ray machine is the only capital outlay budgeted against $7,860 last: year. Higher wages and rvices offset lower costs of food ‘n meintenance and operation of the plant. Nurses and orderlies are budgeted at $50,500 up $7,000.General dJabor is budgeted at $5,565, up $565. Another boost, kitchen labor $16,820, up $3,070. Administration of welfare department is budgeted $2,418 above last year. Additional help accounts for most of it. Salaries budgeted at $21,360 up $3,360. Other increases show in teleHone and telegraph at $400 up 175, and convention $100 up $25. Travel expenses are budgeted at $500 down $400, stationery $250 Jown $50; printing $250 down $150, and professional .fees $50 down $100. Assistance programs for old age security and blind have been transferred from county to state administration and this year’s budgeted county administration calls for $157,702 compared to $568,858 last year. The welfare department administered the expending of $620,543.13 last year for assistance programs. Still remaining on this year’s budget are old age, $61,350; blind, $2,100; needy children, $81,852; crippled children, $2,400; indigent fund, Re eae) 3 jt $10,000. Probation office budget re‘The Nevada City Nugget, Friday, August 19, 19495 quests are up $175 as follows: $25, telephone to $175; traveling, $650, up $50; stationery, $175, up $25. Conference expense of $75 is a} new remains at $50. A $25 new expense item for meals is the only change ‘in a $5,009 budget for maintenance of / court wards in private hom2. California Youth Authority bucg et at $1,530 is up $259. Care of feeble minded remains‘. , unchanged at $4,000. Examination of insane is almost tripled to $1,009. Burial of indigents is budgeted at $1,650, up $350. Doubling of stationery needs to $500 is the only increase in the budget request of the service of ficer. A new item is $5 for membership in County Service Offi cers association: The budget calls for $12,025 for operation and salaries. Among miscellany budget reruests.the countv exhibit at the state fair at $2,500 is up $590, county farm market at $400 is up $150, and Nevada County Historical Society at $700 is up $200. A new item is $300 for the Nevada county fair. Budget requests of 3500 for membership in the state chamber of commerce and $500 for Alta California remain the same as last year. The $2,300 budgeted for advertising and development of the county remains the same at $2,300, although the county did not use any of last year’s budget. The county superintendent of schools affected a $40 decrease in budget request. Nothing for special elections compared to $580 last year aided. Elimination also of $50 for equipment, and $20 for travel to $160 were other decreases. The budget calls for increases of $20, telephone to $120; 10, office supplies to $180; $20, postage to $120; $30, conferences to $80; $20, printing to . . . ‘change s PROOF. 65% GRAIN NEU. $220; $160, records and warrants compared to $290 last. year, An additional expense this year of itern. Convention expense . $340 for a county committee on school organization nullified much of the savings through no elections. The county board of education hiked salaries $139 for its only in budget requests. The first European. capital to be liberated from Axis domination was Rome, which the United States Fifth Army entered June 5, 1944. NEVADA CITY—ON THE THRESHOLD TO THE BEST IN SPORTS RECREATION : ® ' NEVADA CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RARE BLENDED WHISKEY TRAL SPIRITS. 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