Humboldt budget level creeps up

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August 15, 2017 - 12:00 AM

HUMBOLDT — After a hearing measured in seconds during which no one commented or objected, Humboldt council members unanimously approved the town’s budget for 2018.
Funding on the taxpayers’ nickel will come from a levy of 88.567 mills, slightly more than 2 mills more than this year and almost exactly 3 mills more than in 2016.
Budget authority, which limits expenditures, will be $3.6 million. Transfers, from that number, were pegged at $346,410.
The budget doesn’t indicate an appreciable difference from this year’s expenditures of $3.374 million.
The lion’s share of the levy is for the general fund, 86.996 mills, with 1.571 for bond and interest payments.
 
IN OTHER BUSINESS, council members learned county improvements to Bridge and Ninth streets were progressing smoothly. Overlay of Bridge Street, from Ninth to the west city limit, began Monday and may be completed today. Ninth Street’s milling began Monday, meaning overlay should begin before the week is out.
The local swimming pool will have its last day on Aug. 23, the day before classes resume in USD 258.
A project by Westar to make power on the downtown square available by underground connection should be completed soon, Herder said. It and the Bridge and Ninth streets improvements are adjuncts to significant commercial upgrades in downtown.
Mayor Nobby Davis told the Register last week he expected to have his Opie’s restaurant downtown open by early in the first full week of September. Windows have been installed and interior work is moving along quickly, he said.

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