Ordinance No. 294ORDINANCE NO. _
AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING A BUDGET FOR THE ENSUING FISCAL YEAR
BFGINNIING OCTOBER 11 1955 AMID ENDING SEPTEMBM:�. 30, 1.956,
IN ACCIORDANCE WITH THE CHARTER AND ORDINANCES OF THE CITY
OF BAYTOWN; AND PROVID rtTG 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 revenue of said city and the expenses
of conducting the affairs thereof for the ensuing fiscal year, beginning
October 1, 1955 and ending the 30th day of September 1956, and which said
estimate has been compiled from detailed information obtained from the
several departments, divisions and offices of the city, containing all the
information as required by the Charter of the City of Baytown; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has received said City Manager's estimate and
• held a public hearing thereon as provided by Section 44 of the Charter; and
WHFRF,AS,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, TH12EFORF', '
PE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL !OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN, TEXAS:
SECTION 1: That the budget estimate of the revenues of the City of Baytown
and the expenses of conducting the affairs fher-eof for the ensuing fiscal
year, beginning October 1, 1955 and ending "September 30, 1956, 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 sd�id city for the fiscal year
• beginning the lst day of October, 1955, and ending the 30th day of September, 1956.
SECTION 2: That the sum of Eight Hundnd Eighty -Five Thousand Tw6 Hundrked
and Forty -Nine Dollars ($885,249.00) 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 $253,706.00
Public Safety 215,513.00
Highways 162,763.00
Sanitation & Water Removal 173,860.00
Conservation of Health 18,590.00
Recreation 19,455.00
Miscellaneous 41,362.00
SECTION 3: That the sum of One Hundred Ninety- Thousand Nine Hundred and
Seventy -Four Dollarsz($190,974.00) 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 -47it:
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Supply $ 30,320.00
Transmission & Distribution 102,516.00
Customer's Accounting & Collecting 46,393.00
Stores 11,745.00
SECTION 4: That the sum of Eighty One Thousand 'Six Hundred and Thirty-
Four 14,81,634.00) Dollars 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 4, 48,000.00
Interest Payments 33,374.00
Exchange 260.00
SECTION 5: That the sum of Forty 'Seven Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty-
Six (4,47,746.00) Dollars 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 -*it:
Serial Bond Maturities $ 319000.00
Interest Payments 16,546.00
Exchange 200.00
SECTION 6: That the sum of Twenty -Two Thousand Four Hundred and Forty
Eight ($22,448.00) Dollars is hereby appropriated out of the traffic improve-
ment fund for the operating expenses and capital outlay for traffic control
and improvement as hereinafter itemized, to -wit:
'Salaries & Wages $ 113,837.00
Supplies 4,860.00
Maintenance of Luipment 1,678.00
Miscellaneous S rvices 2,835.00
Pensions 538.00
Capital Outlay 700.00
: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 Baytrnm.
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 this 22nd
day of :September, A. D., 1955.
AT17M :
Edna Oliver, City Clerk
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Mayor R.H. Pruett