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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,
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$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
.
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.
‘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.
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