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| Written by Aaron Cedeño | |||
| Wednesday, 23 December 2009 08:00 | |||
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Barring any unexpected changes, the city of Louisburg general fund will work with a budget of almost $3 million in 2010. The general fund is used to pay operating costs for a multitude of city departments: administration, city fire, rural fire, police, streets and parks among them. It’s impossible to plan for everything, City Administrator Jeff Cantrell said, but the 2010 operating budget of $2,815,054 passed by the Louisburg City Council on Monday night is based on a number of factors, including historic department expenditures and the current mill levy. Should revenues fall short of expectations, Cantrell said, changes could be made on the fly. “As a tool, it’s kind of a live working tool,” he explained. “If our revenues come in shorter than anticipated, we’ll have to do adjustments in the middle of the year, so sometimes the numbers you see in this book aren’t necessarily numbers you would want to exceed or even come close to exceeding. But we watch the revenues throughout the year to gauge that.” As it stands, the city is planning on general fund expenditures totaling $2.7 million, leaving a reserve of $89,554. Contained within the $2,725,500 in expenditures are $755,000 for administration, $569,000 for police, $770,000 for streets and $163,000 for parks. Outside of the general fund, some of the budget highlights include $518,000 for Louisburg Aquatic Center, $1.7 million in the gas operating budget and $1,765,500 in the water operating budget. Also at the meeting, the council on Monday: Approved renewal of cereal malt beverage licenses for 10 local businesses for the coming year: Casey’s Retail Co., Rands Inc., Phillips 66 Food Mart, Conoco Food Mart, Price Chopper, Hometown Pizza, Pizza Hut, Phoenix Chinese Restaurant, Dominator Fuels and Timbercreek Barbecue. Was informed by Cantrell that the Louisburg Police Department has the opportunity to purchase a pair of M-16 patrol rifles for $75 apiece from federal surplus. The department currently owns two M-4s, a similar model to the M-16. Barring any objection from the council, Cantrell said, the department would like to get the process rolling. “We’ve got to stay up to date as far as the Police Department is concerned, because you never know what may happen,” Council Member Steve Ward said. “Like I said, I hope we never have to unlock one of them and take it out of the car. That’s a very serious thing.”
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