Ordinance No. 198ORDINANCE NO. 198
AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING A BUDGET FOR THE ENSUING FISCAL YEAR,
BDGINNING OCTOBER 1, 19539 AND ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1954, IN
ACCORDAN CE WITH THE CHARTER AND ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF :
BAYTOWN; AND PROVIDING FOR THE PUBLICATION OF THIS ORDINANCE.
WHEREAS, the City Manager of the City of Baytown has submitted to the City
Council a budget estimate of the revenues of said city and the expenses of conducting
the affairs thereof for the ensuing fiscal year, beginning October 1, 1953 and
ending the 30th day of September 1954, and which said estimate has been compiled
from detailed information obtained from the several departments, divisions and
offices of the City, containing all of the information as required by the Charter
of the City of Baytown; and
WHEREAS, the City Cou ncil has received said City Manager's estimate and held
a public hearing thereon as provided by Section 44 of the Charter; and
WHEREAS; FURTHER, after a full and final consideration of the public hearing,
it is the opinion of the Council that the budget as filed should be approved and
adopted; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN:
SECTION 1: THAT the budget estimate of the revenues of the City of Baytown
and the expenses of conducting the affairs thereof for the ensuing fiscal year,
beginning October 1, 1953, and ending September 30, 1954, as submitted to the
City Council by the City Manager of said city, be, and the same is, in all things
adopted and approved as the budget estimate of all of the current expenses as well
as the fixed charges against said city for the fiscal year beginning the 1st day
• of October, 1953, and ending the 30th day of September, 1954•
SECTION 2: THAT the sum of $703,730.47 is hereby appropriated out of the
general fund for the payment of operating expenses and capital outlay of the city
government as hereinafter itemized, to -wit:
General Government 256,551.21
Public Safety 146,585.00
Highways 125,972.03
Sanitation & Waste Removal 109,745.55
Conservation of Health 129700.00
Recreation 15,890.00
Miscelleanous 36.286.68
TOTAL 7032730.47
SECTION 3: THAT the sum of $136,942.32 is hereby appropriated out of the
® water works for the operating expenses and capital outlay of the municipally
owned water works as hereinafter itemized, to -wit.
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Supply $ 24,070.00
• Transmission & Distribution 66,280.00
Customer's Accounting &
Collecting 36,789.00
Stores 9,803.32
TOTAL $ TJ6_,W2�.�2
SECTION 4: THAT the sum of $68,414.00 is hereby appropriated out of the general
debt service fund for the purpose of paying the accruing interest and redeeming
the serial bonds as they mature, on the general debt service bonds as hereinafter
itemized, to -wit:
Serial Bond Maturities $ 42,000.00
Interest Payments 26,1114.00
Exchange 270.00
TOTAL $ T , 4 17 . 00
SECTION 5: THAT the sum of $48,359.00 is hereby appropriated out of the water
• works debt service fund for the purpose of paying the accruing interest and redeeming
the serial bonds as they mature, on the water works debt service bonds as hereinafter
itemized, to -wit:
Serial Bond MatuLities $ 30,000.00
Interest Payments 18,159.00
Exchange 200.00
TOTA L $ 7,359-00
SECTION 6: THAT the sum of $16,524.00 is hereby appropriated out of the
traffic improvement fund for the operating expenses and capital outlay for traffic
control and improvement as hereinafter itemized, to -wit:
Salaries & Wages $ 10074.00
Supplies 2,550.00
Maintenance of Equipment 3,200.00
Capital Outlay - - -
• TOTAL 6f 7-TF
SECTION 7: This ordinance shall be and remain in full force and effect from
and after its passage and approval of the City Council, and it shall be published
once each week for two consecutive weeks in some newspaper published in the City
of Baytown.
READ, ADOPTED and APPROVED by at least a majority of the City Council at a
regular meeting held at the City Hall in the City of Baytown on the 10th day of
September, 1953.
Pruett, Mayor
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Edna Oliver, City er
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