New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-05-19
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items contributing thereto are the
commercial water service Of $9,433.O3,
the city departments of $914.70 and the
hydrant rental of $3,O60.OO. This de-
partment shows net income of 81, 471.18
not, of course, figuring anything for
depreciation.
The main expense for this depart
ment was the fuel bill which amounted
to $4,136.24. The salaries and wages
of the help amounted to $1,774.68.
The sum OF 81 ,464.54 was expended for
repairs and renewals of buildings and
machinery and the sum of $57.85 was
charged off on account of bad debts.
At the beginning of the fiscal year
the waterworks fund showed balance
of $14,514.66. Out of this amount there
was expended the SIM Of $2,958.01 far
the construction Of new mains, $5,353.22
for reservoir No. 2and 81, 924.25 for the
new well. This reduced this account
to $3,279.1S to which was added the
net income of $4,471.1S making a total
of $7,75O.36 as of February 20, 1915.
The net transactions for March showed
loss of $321.O6 which brought the
balance down to $7,429.30.
The past year the entire receipts from
the liquor licenses amounting to $12,73O
We're credited to the administration
fund and this proved insufficient to
close the business of this fund without
a deficit. There were minor receipts,
such as licenses, fines, fees and rentals
which brought the total up to $14, 061 so.
There were two heavy expenses which
had not been contemplated when the
budget for the tax levy had been pre-
pared. They were the expense of
$3,647.74 for the audit of the books
and accounting fees and the purchase
of a city hall site for $4,000. The
salaries of the Mayor, council clerk,
treasurer, attorney, marshall, police,
special police, health officer, scaler,
poundmaster, board of public works,
board of review and assessor consumed
the sum of Sc, 1921 SO.
The sum of 1910 was expended for
donations and subscriptions and the
sum of $603.27 for printing, stationery
and Office supplies. The expenditures
exceeded. The revenues by $3,114.59
and the fund March 81, 1915 was over
drawn to the extent of $13,914.24.
Of all the funds, the street fund was
the hardest hit of all. Starting with
a tax levy of $8,O21.4O and receiving
from special assessments and other
sources $30,490.16 making a total of
$38,511.56 receipts, the expenditures
exceeded them by $25,385.33, the total
expenditures aggregating $63,896.89.
The heaviest item under this head
was the paving OF Minnesota Street
amounting to $3S,o56.29. The salaries
of the city engineer, street commits
sioner and extra help for city engineer
amounted to $2,33O.S7. The teams
and hand labor amounted to $2,945.64.
Another heavy expense item was the
current for street arcs amounting to
$500 and for the white way amounting
to $1,OO2.4O..
The grading, crawling and boule-
varding of streets consumed $8,733.24
of the city's funds and for the sprinkling
$2,O71.75 was expended. The most
of the last two expenditures will be
returned thru the payment of special
assessments. The sidewalk to Summit
Ave. cost $979.75 and the water for
street sprinkling $513.7O.
There was received for special as
sessments for sewers $6,292.5O. This
with two smaller items raised the total
receipts to $6,511.05. The total ex-
penditures for sewer construction to-
gether with a number of smaller expense
items aggregated the sum of S8,926.44.
showing an excess expenditure over
the revenue of $2,415.39. This account
was at the end of the fiscal year over
drawn to the extent of $4,S82.12.